# How to cook a heart **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2019, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537 "2019-10-27T04:17:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/21 "2019-10-27T20:48:45Z")
It’s a muscle. You cook it, eat it, and it’s delicious. You don’t need to overthink it, it’s not like tongue or liver or tripe. You can trim away any tough parts, butterfly it and grill it for sandwiches. All for wild game but you can sub beef heart just fine and Hank Shaw has never done me wrong: > **[Grilled Deer Heart Recipe - How to Cook Deer Heart | Hank Shaw](https://honest-food.net/grilled-deer-heart-recipe/)** > > A recipe for grilled deer heart with marinated peppers and onions. This recipe works with deer, elk, moose, antelope or beef, pork or veal. > **[German Jägerschnitzel  (Jaegerschnitzel) Recipe | Hank Shaw](https://honest-food.net/jagerschnitzel-recipe/)** > > A classic German jagerschnitzel (jaegerschnitzel) recipe: a pounded cutlet with mushroom sauce. You can use almost any meat here. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/22 "2019-10-27T22:29:37Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m told that ground beef heart is the key to authentic Detroit-style Coney Island chili sauce. Is that true? I’m a Michigander and have had Coney’s my whole life. Never heard that. I don’t mind if it is true, just curious. I’ve only ever had (knowingly) chicken hearts, which were pretty much just roasted on a grill, I think. Pretty good, nothing too amazing. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/23 "2019-10-27T22:37:22Z")
I bought a beef heart once. Out of most of it I ground and made heartburger. Quite lean and yummy. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/24 "2019-10-28T18:53:17Z")
Anticuchos! I’ve never cooked heart myself and have never eaten this exact recipe, but it gives you the gist of what to expect when you order beef heart at a Peruvian restaurant: > **[Anticuchos de Corazón](https://www.196flavors.com/anticuchos-de-corazon/)** > > The heart is actually today’s topic. No, we are not going to speak about love, we will save Valentine's Day for that, but I am speaking about meat! Anticuchos de corazón, por favor! What are anticuchos? Anticuchos are a specialty from South America.... ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/25 "2019-10-28T19:08:35Z")
With a deer hear I’ll slice it thin, bread it in flour and spices and fry it in a shallow pan of oil. It has the texture of a chicken gizzard. I eat it with hot Chinese mustard. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/26 "2019-10-28T19:08:54Z")
How timely; I too have a heart-o-cow in my freezer. Good ideas here! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/27 "2019-10-28T19:21:07Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Chicken hearts, though, I do enjoy. When I was a kid, getting a chicken heart in my bowl of soup was a treat! It is worth going to a Brazilian Barbecue just for the chicken hearts. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/28 "2019-10-28T19:22:07Z")
Slice it thin and use it as a substitute in liver and onions. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/29 "2019-10-29T12:37:00Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Is that true? I’m a Michigander and have had Coney’s my whole life. Never heard that. I don’t mind if it is true, just curious. [That’s what Wikipedia says](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island_hot_dog), anyway; > [@](#): > > The Coney Island developed in Michigan is a natural-casing beef or beef and pork European-style Wiener Würstchen (Vienna sausage) of German origin, topped with a beef heart-based sauce, one or two stripes of yellow mustard and diced or chopped onions… > > …Flint style is characterized by a dry hot dog topping made with a base of ground beef heart, which is ground to a consistency of fine-ground beef. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/30 "2019-10-29T12:53:01Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Is that true? I’m a Michigander and have had Coney’s my whole life. Never heard that. I don’t mind if it is true, just curious. > > I’ve only ever had (knowingly) chicken hearts, which were pretty much just roasted on a grill, I think. Pretty good, nothing too amazing. I worked at a Coney Island chain when I was in high school. the chili/coney sauce definitely listed beef heart as an ingredient. I know National sells their sauce in some supermarkets, next time I see it I’ll try to remember to take a look. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/31 "2019-10-29T15:13:42Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Slice it thin and use it as a substitute in liver and onions. Nobody wants to eat liver and heart. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/32 "2019-10-29T17:04:23Z")
?? I love liver and onion. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/33 "2019-10-29T20:43:41Z")
We use ground beef heart in our homemade sloppy joe. We also use it in our regular pasta sauce. Granted, we get it ground from our butcher. We don’t buy the whole beef heart. It works pretty well as a replacement for any recipe calling for leaner ground beef. (We tried pig heart a few times, but it doesn’t work as well. It has a very strong “iron” flavor.) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/34 "2019-10-29T22:26:35Z")
When I was the meat & poultry buyer at the Park Slope Food Coop, I used to save the beef hearts from our standing order weekly cows for an Ecuadorian co-worker, who grilled them. Seemed strange to me, because a heart is a well-worked muscle, so I’d assumed it would be tough and need slow braising. This week’s **New Yorker** restaurant review is for Llama San, a new Peruvian place in Greenwich Village that specializes in grilled, skewered beef heart. “One of the most delicious parts of a cow, with a juicy texture and clean beefy flavor similar to that of a hangar steak.” I’ll take their word for it. Never eaten a beef heart, although I used to relish the mixed grill at NYC Argentine restaurants, which offered two kinds of steak, two kinds of sausage (one blood-based), the kidneys, and the sweetbreads. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/35 "2019-10-29T22:51:51Z")
It’s also tasty when paired up with a fish fillet. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/36 "2019-10-29T22:57:26Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > It’s also tasty when paired up with a fish fillet. The Poor Man’s Surf n’ Turf! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/37 "2019-10-30T13:45:47Z")
Eat it raw, like Rosemary Wodehouse (but only if you are pregnant with Satan’s child) ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/38 "2019-10-30T13:56:05Z")
Ooh glad this got bumped again. Reminded me to get mine out to start defrosting 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/39 "2019-10-30T14:39:26Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Eat it raw, like Rosemary Wodehouse (but only if you are pregnant with Satan’s child) How about still beating, after being ripped from the body of your victim. That’s what I’ve…heard. HEARD. Yes. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537/40 "2019-10-30T15:09:35Z")
I never would have expected so many people would have recipes for heart o’ cow. I also did not recall that what Rosemary ate was the heart. I guess I just thought it was regular raw meat. Also, am I the only one who, every time I see this thread, sing it to the tune of The Fray’s _How to Save a Life_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-heart/842537.md?page=3)