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Type | Short loin cut of beef |
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The strip steak (sirloin steak in Britain, South Africa, and Australasia, also porterhouse steak in Australasia) is a cut of beef steaks from the short loin of a cow. It consists of a muscle that does little work, the longissimus, making the meat particularly tender,[1] although not as tender as the nearby psoas major or tenderloin. Unlike the tenderloin, the longissimus is a sizable muscle, allowing it to be cut into larger portions.