What is short plate?
Quick Answer
short plate is a regional beef-cut name for the short plate, on the plate primal (Belly area, below the rib section).
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What is short plate in simple terms?
What is short plate called in the United States?
US retail labels for short plate appear in the names-by-country section; common forms include the mapped English terms listed there.
Where is short plate on the cow?
Is short plate steak?
It is a beef muscle sold as steak or roast depending on thickness and market—still short plate anatomically.
Is short plate the same as Short Ribs?
How do I translate short plate for travel?
What is another name for short plate?
“short plate” is a regional beef-cut name that maps to the canonical cut Short Plate (plate primal).
Use the names-by-country section below when shopping or ordering abroad.
Global cut guide
Where it comes from
The belly of the cow, below the rib primal. Source of short ribs, skirt steak, and hanger steak. Rich, fatty, and flavorful. Used for braising, fajitas, and in Asian cuisines for hot pot. It is part of the plate primal (Belly area, below the rib section).
In menus and butcher shops it is often discussed next to Short Ribs, Skirt, and Hanger.
What it's called in other countries
- Albania: short plate
- Andhra Pradesh: short plate
- Argentina: Asado (cut)
- Australia: short plate
- Austria: short plate
- Belarus: short plate
- Belgium: short plate
- Bolivia: short plate
- Bosnia & Herzegovina: short plate
- Brazil: Ponta de agulha
- Bulgaria: short plate
- Canada: short plate · Short plate
- Chile: short plate
- China: short plate
- Colombia: short plate
- Costa Rica: short plate
- Croatia: short plate
- Czech Republic: short plate
- Denmark: short plate
- Ecuador: short plate
- Egypt: short plate
- El Salvador: short plate
- Estonia: short plate
- Ethiopia: short plate
- Finland: short plate
- France: short plate
- Germany: short plate
- Goa: short plate
- Greece: short plate
- Guatemala: short plate
- Honduras: short plate
- Hungary: short plate
- Indonesia: short plate
- Iran: gholveh-gah
- Ireland: short plate
- Israel: short plate
- Italy: short plate
- Japan: short plate
- Karnataka: short plate
- Kazakhstan: short plate
- Kenya: short plate
- Kerala: short plate
- Latvia: short plate
- Lithuania: short plate
- Maharashtra: short plate
- Malaysia: short plate
- Mexico: short plate
- Montenegro: short plate
- Morocco: short plate
- Netherlands: short plate
- New Zealand: short plate
- Nicaragua: short plate
- Nigeria: short plate
- North Macedonia: short plate
- Norway: short plate
- Panama: short plate
- Paraguay: short plate
- Peru: short plate
- Philippines: short plate
- Poland: short plate
- Portugal: short plate
- Qatar: short plate
- Romania: short plate
- Russia: short plate
- Saudi Arabia: short plate
- Singapore: short plate
- Slovakia: short plate
- Slovenia: short plate
- South Africa: short plate
- South Korea: short plate
- Spain: short plate
- Sweden: short plate
- Switzerland: short plate
- Taiwan: short plate
- Tamil Nadu: short plate
- Telangana: short plate
- Thailand: short plate
- Turkey: short plate
- UAE: short plate
- Ukraine: short plate
- United Kingdom: short plate
- United States: short plate · Short plate
- Uruguay: Asado (cut)
- Uzbekistan: short plate
- Venezuela: short plate
- Vietnam: nuoc beo
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 plate primal (Belly area, below the rib section), adjust time and temperature to thickness and marbling.
Translations across countries
- Argentina → Albania (asado)
- Argentina → Andhra Pradesh (asado)
- Argentina → Australia (asado)
- Argentina → Austria (asado)
- Argentina → Belarus (asado)
- Argentina → Belgium (asado)
- Argentina → Bolivia (asado)
- Argentina → Bosnia & Herzegovina (asado)
- Argentina → Brazil (asado)
- Argentina → Bulgaria (asado)
- Argentina → Canada (asado)
- Argentina → Chile (asado)
- Argentina → China (asado)
- Argentina → Colombia (asado)
- Argentina → Costa Rica (asado)
- Argentina → Croatia (asado)
- Argentina → Czech Republic (asado)
- Argentina → Denmark (asado)
- Argentina → Ecuador (asado)
- Argentina → Egypt (asado)
- Argentina → El Salvador (asado)
- Argentina → Estonia (asado)
- Argentina → Ethiopia (asado)
- Argentina → Finland (asado)
- Argentina → France (asado)
- Argentina → Germany (asado)
- Argentina → Goa (asado)
- Argentina → Greece (asado)
- Argentina → Guatemala (asado)
- Argentina → Honduras (asado)
- Argentina → Hungary (asado)
- Argentina → Indonesia (asado)
- Argentina → Iran (asado)
- Argentina → Ireland (asado)
- Argentina → Israel (asado)
- Argentina → Italy (asado)
- Argentina → Japan (asado)
- Argentina → Karnataka (asado)
- Argentina → Kazakhstan (asado)
- Argentina → Kenya (asado)
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