The best homemade meat tenderizer baking soda.
Baking soda tenderizes meat by changing the meat's pH, which makes the proteins less likely to bind together and creates a more tender texture.
You can also use enzymatic fruits such as papaya or pineapple, acidic marinades with ingredients like lemon juice or vinegar.
To tenderize meat with baking soda, create a baking soda solution, using around 1 teaspoon of baking soda per 1 ounces of meat or by sprinkling the baking soda directly on the meat.
After the meat is tenderized you should rinse the meat thoroughly before cooking the meat to remove any residual baking soda paste.
You can also get meat tender through Velveting which is a Chinese cooking technique which means to marinate strips of meat with egg white and cornstarch, then dipping then in a hot oil bath before finally stir-frying them, the meat develops a texture that is tender, silky, and smooth.
Preparing velvet meat is a staple technique in Chinese cuisine that allows home cooks to tenderize tough, chewy cuts before stir-frying them over high heat in a wok.
It is worth the effort and work and time to Tenderize meat that is very tough as it makes the meat easier to chew and digest.
But if the meats are soft enough already then it may not be worth the effort of Tenderizing the meat.
Any meat that is tough I always take the time and Tenderize it but if the meat is a softer meat already then I do not take the time to Tenderize it.
When you Tenderize meat with a meat tenderizing mallet it softens the meats fibers.
When the meats fibers are softened it makes the meat easier to chew and to digest.
Tenderizing meat is done by using a meat tenderizing mallet and it's like a hammer but for meat and you pound the meat by working back and forth around the meat and flipping the meat over and making sure to pound the meat on both sides for a few minutes.
Then when done you cook it like normal and it will be much more tender and easier to chew the meat.