Tripe

Tripe is a type of edible lining from the stomachs of various farm animals. Most tripe is from cattle.

Description

Beef tripe

Beef tripe is usually made from the muscle wall (the interior mucosal lining is removed) of only the first three chambers of a cow's stomach: the rumen (blanket/flat/smooth tripe), the reticulum (honeycomb and pocket tripe), and the omasum (book/bible/leaf tripe). Abomasum (reed) tripe is seen much less frequently, owing to its glandular tissue content.

Other animals

Though tripe tends to refer to the cow (beef) stomach cooked as food, a similar meal item may also be produced from any animal with a stomach. In some cases, other names have been applied to the 'tripe' of other animals. For example tripe from pigs may be referred to as paunch. Hog (pig) stomach is also eaten under the term, hog maw.

Washed tripe

Washed tripe is more typically known as dressed tripe. To dress the tripe, the stomachs are cleaned and the fat trimmed off. It is then boiled and bleached, giving it the white color more commonly associated with tripe as seen on market stalls and in butchers shops. The task of dressing the tripe is usually carried out by a professional tripe dresser.

Tripe (disambiguation)

Tripe is a type of edible offal from the stomachs of various domestic animals.

Tripe may also refer to:

See also