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CostillarvsPlate ribs

beef · Close equivalent

These cuts are closely equivalent — the same or nearly identical cut across different butchery traditions.

Both whole-along-bone slow-cooked beef ribs from the plate region. Costillar is grilled flat on parrilla or vertically on asador a la cruz over coals; plate ribs is smoked low-and-slow over post-oak in Texas BBQ tradition. Different cooking, same cut.

Translation takeaway

These are near equivalents in the way butchers and cooks use them. If you can source either one, you're very close to the same result.

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Costillar
Beef · Plate

The whole rib slab cut from the side of the steer for *asado* — typically the 7th through 11th ribs along the bone, with attached intercostal meat, plate fat, and matambre on top. …

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Plate ribs
Beef · Plate

The signature cut of Texas BBQ — three-rib slabs cut along the bone from the beef short plate, with a thick fat cap and intramuscular marbling that turns to silk over 8–12 hours…

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Names by country

CountryCostillarPlate ribs
🇺🇸United StatesPlate ribs
🇦🇷ArgentinaCostillar

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