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Onglet substitutes

What to use when you can't find Onglet at your butcher

Onglet is the traditional name in France. Outside that tradition, butchers carry comparable beef cuts under different names — sometimes the same anatomical piece, sometimes a close cousin. The alternatives below are grouped by country so you can match what your local butcher actually carries.

Argentina

Vacioapproximate

Similar cooking applications and the need to slice against the grain, but different muscles — flank is broad and flat while hanger is thick and cylindrical.

Mexico

Arracheraapproximate

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.

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