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Miche > wrote:

> (Steve Pope) wrote:


>> I agree about lamb shoulder being hard to carve. The lamb
>> shoulder cuts I have gotten are random-shaped with bones
>> in random locations, and no obvious way to slice them up.


>Do butchers in the US get no training?


Good question. The small, free-range rancher I have been
buying lamb from is expert at raising animals but not so
great at butchering them, so I had been getting some odd-looking
cuts from him. He has now grown to the point where he contracts
out the butchering and the cuts look much better.

Steve