/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14655255
>What exactly is gyro meat made of?
You don't want to know
> is there also beef, mutton, pork?
sometimes yes
>What parts of the sheep, cow, and pig is used?
You don't want to know the answer to that

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7055205/Kebab-shop-owner-linked-missing-school-girl-says-doesnt-care-shes-alive-dead.html

It's lamb. Ignore the haters.

>>14655273
>>14655320
>>14655255

Most gyro/kebab meat is made from chicken (the most unhealthy, fatty chicken you can think off, those that die of heart attack and never see the light of day). Everything but the head, the bones, feet and the organs are blended. Then comes those sold as "beef or mutton", that are chicken with 5-10% of fat and little of meat from those more expensive animals.

>>14655371
liar. It's lamb.

>>14655255
Based on what I've seen the people in the kitchen at the local gyro stand working with, it's 2 or 3 parts 80/20 ground beef to 1 part ground lamb, seasoned with shitloads of garlic, onion, cumin, paprika, rosemary and oregano.

>>14655371
True, we should ban 3rd world migration to Europe.

>>14655255
Gyros is either lamb or the much more popular pork, because it's a lot cheaper and juicier.

>>14655371
Those are chicken kebabs
Doner meat is lamb.

>>14655255
White British children

>>14655255

Quite often beef because it is cheaper than lamb and basically tastes the same after they muller it with spices

>>14655371
I'm glad they found a way to utilize every part of the animal

>>14655255
https://kronosfoodscorp.com/product/gyro-cones/

your "local" greek place buys this.

Dad gyro cone, mom gyro cone, gyro cone junior

>>14655255
Gyro meat is Greek, and Greeks are Greek orthodox /Christians. Pork is consumed in Christianity. If you're muslim, you'll be subbing something else for the pork like all beef, though veal would be milder like pork. You should call it something other than gyro, ideally, like doner kabob. Though the term is from gyro- prefix, note that the term itself is really just for the vertical eletric rotisserie spit, and doesn't have such a synonymous term. Gyro should be pork, beef, lamb, a blend.

>mutton
Only very poor people eat mutton. Sheep are more valuable for their wool than their meat. It's actually more economical to slaughter lamb earlier. Most people consider mutton too strongly gamey, and inedible. Everyone eats lamb, though.

>parts
they can use bits of the whole muscle, loin, shank whatever they want. The nice part about a vertical spit is it's like a pressed loaf, and smaller pieces just cook nestled with larger pieces. There are videos showing the assembly. Watch a video on the tacos al pastor of mexico city (a chili seasoned gyro recipe that came from lebanese christian expats using pork)

What sort of third world hole do you live in where the kebab store doesn't tell you what meat they are serving.
Anywhere half decent will usually have minced chicken and beef separately. The decent stores have proper meat, sliced really thin and marinated but that really depends on where you are, minced stuff stands out because it cuts so clean, layered meat ends up rough.

>>14655576
> Everyone eats lamb, though.
They really don't and everyone just calls it lamb instead because of the marketing.

>>14655255
I don’t know what the fuck it is. Real doner is supposed to be actual layered steaks.

This processed Gayreek shit is an abomination.

Donair chads report in

>>14655569
doot do-do do-do

>>14655371
>Everything but the head, the bones, feet and the organs are blended
is that a bad thing? picky eaters are a product of the modern world

>>14655576
>only poor people eat mutton
What, like, the Prince of Wales? Bet any money you have never had quality mutton. Probably the nicest meat.

>>14655255
Shredded Turks.

I made this once. It was pretty good.

white british children

>>14655569
>>14655738
lol

>>14656329
Meatloaf Gyros! These are the kind of gyros you get in flyover country. Why not just get an Arby's gyro?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEQoTQUMDC4

>>14656329
I'm planning on making it but definitely don't use "italian style" breadcrumbs. just use regular breadcrumbs. look at all the extra bullshit seasonings in that picture
>>14656409
I don't hate myself enough for that yet

>they're closed on sundays
fuck. Local Lebanese shawarma truck, so good

>>14655255
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e52IMaE-3As

>>14655255
It's made from pork, but there's also chicken gyros in most places. The lamb shit is just a cucked version of gyros, made specifically for beta males to enjoy with the rotisserie up their ass

All of the 'gyro', 'doner' and similar stuff in our country is layered actual pieces of meat and none of that hot dog mix popsicle stuff.
It feels like everyone has their own definition for these foods

>>14655371
>bones
>not blended
you poor naive child.

>>14655255
it depends, at a nice restuarant it will be beef/pork/lamb, at a shittier restuarant it will be cheap chicken or something. if you're unlucky, the restaurant has been using gyros to dispose of dead bodies.

>>14655576
>Most people consider mutton too strongly gamey
Oh lord
Image being such a picky eater you can't make a luxury dish out of something with too much taste

>>14656619
I wouldn't mind

>>14655413
But Europe is a 3rd world country, anon

>>14657616
>t.urk

>>14655255
WhiteCastle meat with spices

>>14656329
if you cooked that low temp and then seared the slices on one side just prior to serving it might be pretty good. the texture of shaved meat is hard to replicate though

>>14655705
Hey I also am in Halfiax

>>14655255

>>14656409
>These are the kind of gyros you get in flyover country
This is funny because I couldn't get a real lamb gyro on the west coast. Got one as soon as I got back to Michigan, had my choices. Many other such stories. Never get stuck in California.

>>14658167
California doesn't fuck with gyros, but there's some good schwarma over rice (wallies in Oakland is the best chicken and rice I've ever had)

>>14658179
Probably don't want to tango with Dearborn on schwarma. That's one of the highest concentration of middle easterners outside of the middle east.

>>14655705
My negro! KOD, baby!