A relatively high percentage of the roasts prepared by methods A, B, and C were undesirable in initial tenderness (one fourth, one third, and three fourths, respectively), while only 8.3% of the roasts prepared by method D were undesirable in initial tenderness (Table 4). In overall tenderness 16.7 and 58.3% of the roasts prepared by methods B and C respectively, were
undesirable, while only 8.3% of the roasts prepared by methods A and D were undesirable.