I'm making the Chasen's Chili recipe Dimitri posted. It calls for beef
chuck.
I bought a beef chuck cross rib roast boneless.
This is what I got when I sliced into it to coarsely chop it for the
recipe.

If I'm seeing right, the grain is running opposite of each other. Is
this a_du-uh!_that's what cross rib means?

the roast
http://i2.tinypic.com/4vdic7t.jpg
a slice
http://i4.tinypic.com/6bunqr7.jpg

I rarely cook roasts so I'm perplexed.
I'm making it tonight so I'm going to cut the roast in half along were
the grains run opposite each other and deal with them separately.

What do you think? Did I buy the wrong thing to begin with? YIKES!!

Koko
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