The butcher card: Israeli meat numbers, printable

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200

The illustrated guide to meat in Israel is free, and will stay free. The butcher card is its pocket version: what you want in front of you at the counter, when the butcher is waiting and you can no longer remember whether chuck roast is 4 or 5.

What’s inside (PDF, 6 pages):

Front: the beef map. The drawing numbered 1 to 19, fore and hind, and the full table: the Hebrew name and how to say it, the American and British cut, the cooking methods that suit it, the price tier. The five cuts without a number (cheek, tongue, oxtail, marrow bones, hanger) are there too.
Back: to show the butcher. Twenty-eight Hebrew phrases, printed large so you can simply point at them: cut into cubes for a stew, sliced thin for schnitzel, ground once with the fat, a butterflied chicken… Each with its pronunciation and translation.
My recipe says… I ask for. Nineteen dishes (beef stew, cholent, roast beef, carpaccio, osso buco, kebabs…) translated into numbers, from first choice to plan B.
Lamb and poultry, with their drawings and tables, and a note on veal (עגל is not what you think).
Two phone wallpapers, light and dark: one screenshot and the numbers sit on your lock screen, nothing to open.
Why the hindquarter is rare and pricey: nikkur explained in ten lines, and the question to ask.

Print pages 1 to 3 (the card front and back, then lamb and poultry): folded in four, the card fits in a wallet. The fold marks are on the sheet.

Meat in Israel: the illustrated guide to the numbers, with Hebrew

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200

At the counter in Israel you do not ask for “chuck roast”, you ask for “a five”, and the words you overhear (ripen, shpundra, asado, polkeh) came over from Warsaw, Budapest or Buenos Aires. This guide translates both ways: from the number to the American or British cut, and from the recipe you are holding to the number to ask for.

Click the drawing, or open counter mode on your phone, standing in front of the display.

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The butcher card: Israeli meat numbers, printable

Meat in Israel: the illustrated guide to the numbers, with Hebrew