Steaks
were weighed again, and cook loss was calculated by dividing cooked
weight by raw weight and subtracting the total from 100. Six, 1.27-cm
cores were taken from each steak parallel to the muscle fibers and
sheared once perpendicular to the muscle fibers for measurement
of tenderness using a Warner–Bratzler shear force machine (G-R
Manufacturing, Manhattan, KS) (AMSA, 1995).