What is Bloemstuk?
Quick Answer
Bloemstuk is a regional beef-cut name for the shoulder clod, on the chuck primal (Upper shoulder, above the arm and outside the blade).
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What is Bloemstuk in simple terms?
What is Bloemstuk called in the United States?
US retail labels for shoulder clod appear in the names-by-country section; common forms include the mapped English terms listed there.
Where is Bloemstuk on the cow?
Bloemstuk refers to shoulder clod located at Upper shoulder, above the arm and outside the blade on the chuck primal.
Is Bloemstuk steak?
It is a beef muscle sold as steak or roast depending on thickness and market—still shoulder clod anatomically.
Is Bloemstuk the same as Chuck Blade?
How do I translate Bloemstuk for travel?
What is another name for Bloemstuk?
“Bloemstuk” is a regional beef-cut name that maps to the canonical cut Shoulder Clod (chuck primal).
Use the names-by-country section below when shopping or ordering abroad.
Global cut guide
Where it comes from
A large, lean muscle group from the outer shoulder. Contains the flat iron (infraspinatus) and petite tender (teres major) as sub-cuts. Often sold as shoulder roast or clod steaks. It is part of the chuck primal (Upper shoulder, above the arm and outside the blade).
In menus and butcher shops it is often discussed next to Chuck Blade, Chuck Roll, Flat Iron, and Petite Tender.
What it's called in other countries
- Albania: shoulder clod
- Andhra Pradesh: shoulder clod
- Argentina: Marucha
- Australia: shoulder clod
- Austria: dickes bugstück
- Belarus: shoulder clod
- Belgium: shoulder clod
- Bolivia: shoulder clod
- Bosnia & Herzegovina: shoulder clod
- Brazil: Paleta
- Bulgaria: shoulder clod
- Canada: Shoulder clod
- Chile: Punta paleta
- China: shoulder clod
- Colombia: Tablón
- Costa Rica: shoulder clod
- Croatia: shoulder clod
- Czech Republic: shoulder clod
- Denmark: shoulder clod
- Ecuador: shoulder clod
- Egypt: shoulder clod
- El Salvador: shoulder clod
- Estonia: shoulder clod
- Ethiopia: shoulder clod
- Finland: shoulder clod
- France: Paleron
- Germany: Dickes Bugstück
- Goa: shoulder clod
- Greece: shoulder clod
- Guatemala: shoulder clod
- Honduras: shoulder clod
- Hungary: shoulder clod
- Indonesia: shoulder clod
- Iran: shoulder clod
- Ireland: shoulder clod
- Israel: צלי כתף
- Italy: Fesone di spalla
- Japan: shoulder clod
- Karnataka: shoulder clod
- Kazakhstan: shoulder clod
- Kenya: shoulder clod
- Kerala: shoulder clod
- Latvia: shoulder clod
- Lithuania: shoulder clod
- Maharashtra: shoulder clod
- Malaysia: shoulder clod
- Mexico: Paleta
- Montenegro: shoulder clod
- Morocco: shoulder clod
- Netherlands: Bloemstuk
- New Zealand: shoulder clod
- Nicaragua: shoulder clod
- Nigeria: shoulder clod
- North Macedonia: shoulder clod
- Norway: bog
- Panama: shoulder clod
- Paraguay: shoulder clod
- Peru: shoulder clod
- Philippines: shoulder clod
- Poland: shoulder clod
- Portugal: shoulder clod
- Qatar: shoulder clod
- Romania: shoulder clod
- Russia: плечевая часть
- Saudi Arabia: shoulder clod
- Singapore: shoulder clod
- Slovakia: shoulder clod
- Slovenia: shoulder clod
- South Africa: shoulder clod
- South Korea: shoulder clod
- Spain: shoulder clod
- Sweden: shoulder clod
- Switzerland: shoulder clod
- Taiwan: shoulder clod
- Tamil Nadu: shoulder clod
- Telangana: shoulder clod
- Thailand: shoulder clod
- Turkey: shoulder clod
- UAE: shoulder clod
- Ukraine: плечова частина
- United Kingdom: shoulder clod
- United States: Shoulder clod · Shoulder roast
- Uruguay: Marucha
- Uzbekistan: shoulder clod
- Venezuela: shoulder clod
- Vietnam: shoulder clod
Cooking methods
Typical methods include high-heat searing or grilling for steaks, resting before slicing, and cutting across the grain when the muscle is fibrous. Because this cut sits on the chuck primal (Upper shoulder, above the arm and outside the blade), adjust time and temperature to thickness and marbling.
Translations across countries
- Argentina → Albania (marucha)
- Argentina → Andhra Pradesh (marucha)
- Argentina → Australia (marucha)
- Argentina → Austria (marucha)
- Argentina → Belarus (marucha)
- Argentina → Belgium (marucha)
- Argentina → Bolivia (marucha)
- Argentina → Bosnia & Herzegovina (marucha)
- Argentina → Brazil (marucha)
- Argentina → Bulgaria (marucha)
- Argentina → Canada (marucha)
- Argentina → Chile (marucha)
- Argentina → China (marucha)
- Argentina → Colombia (marucha)
- Argentina → Costa Rica (marucha)
- Argentina → Croatia (marucha)
- Argentina → Czech Republic (marucha)
- Argentina → Denmark (marucha)
- Argentina → Ecuador (marucha)
- Argentina → Egypt (marucha)
- Argentina → El Salvador (marucha)
- Argentina → Estonia (marucha)
- Argentina → Ethiopia (marucha)
- Argentina → Finland (marucha)
- Argentina → France (marucha)
- Argentina → Germany (marucha)
- Argentina → Goa (marucha)
- Argentina → Greece (marucha)
- Argentina → Guatemala (marucha)
- Argentina → Honduras (marucha)
- Argentina → Hungary (marucha)
- Argentina → Indonesia (marucha)
- Argentina → Iran (marucha)
- Argentina → Ireland (marucha)
- Argentina → Israel (marucha)
- Argentina → Italy (marucha)
- Argentina → Japan (marucha)
- Argentina → Karnataka (marucha)
- Argentina → Kazakhstan (marucha)
- Argentina → Kenya (marucha)
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