Mascab37,
I don't know what online dictionary you are using but these are a few of the definitions that I am finding. I find nothing that states that a butcher is a cook.
Definitions I find include:
-a retailer of meat
-a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
-a person that kills (animals) usually for food consumption
-A butcher is someone who slaughters animals for food or prepares the meat and other related goods for sale
Butcher job descriptions I found include:
-Cut, trim, or prepare consumer-sized portions of meat for use or sale in retail establishments.
-Cut, trim, bone, tie, and grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry, and fish, to prepare meat for cooking.
-Retail butchers prepare meat, fish, and poultry to sell to customers in stores. Some butchers work in supermarkets; others work in butcher shops. Many butchers own their shops and employ assistants. Butchers are sometimes called meat cutters, unless they deal only in fish. Fish specialists may be referred to as fish mongers or fish cleaners.
Butchers unload meat carcasses from delivery trucks and then cut the carcasses into small pieces that can be sold to customers. They use several kinds of equipment to prepare the meat: power machines such as band saws are used to cut through heavy bones, and other special knives such as slicers, cleavers, and even handsaws are used on the smaller pieces.
Retail butchers begin their task by sawing the carcass in half and then cutting it into quarters. Those quarters are divided up into various "cuts" of meat such as steaks, chops, or roasts. Next, butchers remove fragments of bone from the meat with a knife or a machine that brushes off the bone chips. Meat trimmings are ground into hamburger. Retail butchers also prepare sausages and cured meats (such as corned beef) and clean and cut fish and poultry before it is sold.
Nothing about cooking.
12-Jun-2010 16:50:55
