Locator: 50832TERESMAJOR.
This was from 2010, link here:
A couple of readers and I have been talking about grilling teres major.
The reader who brought it to my attention mentioned they had it again
this week and continue to really enjoy it. Another reader, a real grill
master / a Weber aficionado said he had not grilled teres major before
but was always looking for something new.
He ordered teres major from Snake River Farms about a week ago, and coincidentally it arrived today:
And tonight, just moments ago, he sent this photograph and this comment: "This cut is amazing!"
Wow, is that not impressive!
In the upper midwest, your butcher may know it as chuck-eye. It comes from the shoulder (chuck) of the steer, but it's an elongated muscle that is a pain for the butcher to separate out from the rest of the shoulder, so one seldom sees it (at least based on what others have said). On a transverse cut of the chuck, the teres major looks like the eye -- or the center -- and thus chuck-eye.
At least that's my understanding.
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A reader wrote me tonight --
There’s a butcher I try to get to every once in a while just to see and viola , there it is. Got lucky I guess.
Found this earlier this week:
Wishing all a great summer of grilling!
