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High-heat grilling, simple indirect cooks, steak, picanha, and burgers.
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Both are flavourful, coarse-grained cuts from the plate/diaphragm area that benefit from high heat and slicing against the grain, but the hanger is a single thicker muscle while the skirt is thinner and wider.
Translation takeaway
These are related cuts, but not perfect swaps. Use the table below to judge how close your local option is before buying.
Keep Arrachera and Onglet together in your notebook.
Names by country
| Country | Arrachera | Onglet |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸United States | Skirt steak | Hanger steak |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | Skirt steak | Onglet |
| 🇫🇷France | Hampe | Onglet |
| 🇪🇸Spain | Entraña | Solomillo de pecho |
| 🇦🇷Argentina | Entraña | Entraña fina |
| 🇲🇽Mexico | Arrachera | Arrachera de res |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | — | Fraldão |
| 🇧🇷Brazil | Fraldão | — |
| 🇮🇹Italy | Diaframma | Lombatello |
| 🇩🇪Germany | Kronfleisch | Nierenzapfen |
Cook either one well
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