Australian and United States Consumer Acceptance of Beef Brisket Cooked Using the Low and Slow Barbeque Method

Title
Australian and United States Consumer Acceptance of Beef Brisket Cooked Using the Low and Slow Barbeque Method
Publication Date
2024-11-01
Author(s)
Lees, Jarrod
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9780-3250
Email: jlees5@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jlees5
Hardcastle, Nicholas
Johnston, Justin
Wong, Rohen
Cuthbertson, Holly
Tarr,Garth
Garmyn, Andrea
Miller, Markus
Polkinghorne, Rod
McGilchrist, Peter
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3265-1134
Email: pmcgilc2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:pmcgilc2
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
MDPI AG
Place of publication
Switzerland
DOI
10.3390/foods13193049
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/69470
Abstract

Meat Standards Australia (MSA) sensory protocols have been effectively utilized in beef for international consumers employing several cooking methods. Our objective was to compare the consumer response of Australian and American consumers to paired beef brisket samples utilizing a newly developed low and slow cooking method. Briskets were collected from Australian carcasses with diverse eating quality. Half of the briskets (n = 24) were retained in Australia and their pair was exported to Texas for consumer sensory testing. Naïve consumers (Australia; n = 240) and familiar consumers (USA; n = 240) evaluated paired barbequed briskets for tenderness, juiciness, flavor liking, and overall liking from 0 to 100 using a visual analogue scale, and a weighted composite meat quality score was later calculated. Australian consumers scored briskets lower for tenderness (−4.84 ± 1.70 points) and juiciness (−4.44 ± 1.55 points) and higher for flavor liking (3.48 ± 1.58 points); however, there was no difference between the countries for overall liking (p = 0.75) and combined meat quality score (p = 0.88). Differences between Australian and US consumers’ evaluations indicate that there is an impact of cultural background, potentially driven by Australia’s naivety to the low and slow barbeque cooking method.

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Citation
Foods, 13(19), p. 1-13
ISSN
2304-8158
Start page
1
End page
13
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International

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