

The Tajima Wagyu has the beautiful marbling and the juicy flavors that will melt in your mouth.Just like any large piece of meat, the most intimidating part of cooking a tomahawk steak is deciding how long to cook it without overdoing it. If you are searching of one in Cambodia, you are in luck! The restaurant Topaz, which just made it to the top 100 restaurants in Asia list, has a Tajima Tomahawk steak that can be a meal for 4 people. An entire Tomahawk steak can end up costing several hundred dollars in some places, even fetching up to $1,000 for one encased in a rhinestone briefcase. Tomahawk steaks are usually the most expensive cuts of steak on the menu. This creates a marbling of fat and its rich flavorful taste. The muscles that are used to make tomahawk steaks lie underneath the ribs and are barely used. This muscle group is located along the posterior area of a cow, following along the rib cage of a cow’s upper back. This marvelous tender, highly marbleized cut of beef is from the back muscle, which is also the main muscle on the T-bone and Porterhouse. Tomahawk steaks are cut from the the longissimus dorsi muscles which are rarely used which are located outside of the cow’s ribcage. According to legend, cowboys used to eat their steak while holding the bone like a handle. This technique also allows you to pick up a Tomahawk steak easily if you want to bit into the juicy steak like a cave man. The neat and tidy look is accomplished through a classic food preparation technique known as “frenching.” Frenching is a culinary cleaning technique where all fat, meat, or other tissue is scraped and removed from the naked bone, but leaves a good portion of meat. The signature bone look that makes the handle of the tomahawk is created using a technique called frenching. The thickness of the tomahawk cut often depends on the thickness of the bone, but it is so big that it can usually feed at least two people. Tomahawk steaks are generally at least 5 centermeters thick, measure 20 to 30 centermeters in length(with bone), and can weigh over a kilo. SizeĪnother distinguishing factor between a regular ribeye and a Tomahawk steak is size. Also known as a similar version like “cowboy steak,” a “côte de boeuf,” or a “Delmonico steak,” tomahawk is often seen as more hefty portion, but still has the buttery soft texture of a ribeye with the butter flavoring of bone marrow. “Tomahawk” is just one of the steak’s many nicknames. The flayed rib bone gives this steak the appearance of a hatchet or an Indigenous American tomahawk, which is where the name originates from. The legend of the tomahawk steak can be traced to the cowboys of Texas who often added Mexican spices to their meals.

The bone in a tomahawk steak can also provides a richer and deeper flavor with the added bonus of the juices from the bone marrow during cooking.

The bone in a Tomahawk steak is a great source of flavor and helps tempers the meat while cooking, allowing it to cook slower, and trims the danger of drying out the meat. It is marbled, moist, and has an intense flavor thanks to its intact rib bone. The long rib bone attached is what makes the handle of the Tomahawk steak. All about the BoneĪlthough the named after the ax-like weapon because of it’s shape, the tomahawk steak is technically a regular ribeye steak that still has the bone. But what makes the tomahawk steak the giant of all steaks? Let’s cut into this epic beef dish, and uncover some of the mysteries behind the tomahawk steak. If you like bone-in steaks such as T-bone or Porterhouse, you’ll love the “Tomahawk Steak”.
