Five 1.3-cm (0.5-in)-diameter cores were drilled from each of the 35 steak samples
parallel to the muscle grain. Cores were cut at a speed of 180 mm/min using a Warner-Bratzler blade attached to a TA.XT2 Texture Analyzer (Texture Technologies Group, Scarsdale, NY). The shear force value assigned to each
steak sample was the average of the maximum forces in kilograms required to cut each set of cores (Figure 3).