A method of cutting a piece of meat which is initially generally in the
shape of a parallelepiped to produce at least one steak portion includes
cutting the meat along four generally curved first cut lines extending
generally parallel to the grain of the meat to remove four corners of the
meat and create a meat portion which is cylindrically shaped. The
cylindrically shaped meat portion is cut along each of a plurality of
parallel second cut lines each generally perpendicular to the grain of
the meat and spaced from each other by a first predetermined distance to
create a plurality of disk-like generally cylindrical meat portions each
having a thickness corresponding to the first predetermined distance and
each having a diameter corresponding to the diameter of the cylindrically
shaped meat portion. At least one of the disk-like meat portions is cut
along each of a plurality of third cut lines, each of the third cut lines
extending radially inwardly from an outer circumferential edge of the
disk-like meat portion toward but not entirely through the axial center
of the disk-like meat portion to create an uncut center portion, the
third cut lines being circumferentially spaced apart by a second
predetermined distance to produce a steak portion having a plurality of
generally truncated pie wedge shaped portions held together by the center
portion.
