After cooking shear steaks were refrigerated overnight
and then cored using a hand held 19 mm cork borer to
remove six cores from each steak, parallel to the longitudinal
axis of the muscle fibres. Cores were then
sheared perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the
muscle fibres using the Warner–Bratzler cell of the
Instron Universal Testing Machine (model 4301,
Instron Corporation, Burlington, Ontario) and a crosshead
speed of 100 mm/min.