Generally, the whole oxtail is sold in the market. After the purchase, it was chopped by the salesperson along the bone seam. In addition, there are canned cooked oxtail for sale. When purchasing fresh oxtail, it is required that the meat is ruddy, the fat and gluten are white and shiny, and the peeled oxtail has no residual hair and hair roots. The meat is firm and elastic, the fat is milky white, the meat is dark red, the meat-bone ratio is consistent, and it has a special beef flavor.
Cleaning method of oxtail
The main difficulty in cleaning oxtail is that its hair is difficult to remove. Soak oxtail in water to remove oil and scrape it clean with a knife. You can also use a special iron drill to rotate and pull out the oxtail hair, and then iron it with a red-hot iron.
Anyway, handling oxtail is a slow job. Clean oxtail is cut into pieces along the joint of bone with a knife for later use. Then proper cooking wine and ginger can remove the fishy smell and can be used to make oxtail soup or braised oxtail.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Oxtail.