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The sirloin steak is beef
Beef

Beef is the culinary name for meat from bovines, especially domestic cattle . Beef is one of the principal meats used in the cuisine of Australia, European cuisine and the Americas, and is also important in Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia....
 steak
Steak

A steak is a slice of meat, typically beef. Most steaks are cut perpendicular to the muscle fibres, improving the perceived tenderness of the meat....
 cut from the lower portion of the ribs, continuing off the tenderloin
Beef tenderloin

Beef tenderloin, or eye fillet , is cut from the Loin#Loins in butchery of a steer or heifer. As with all quadrupeds, the tenderloin refers to the Psoas major muscle along the buttox portion....
 from which filet mignon
Filet mignon

Filet mignon is a steak cut of beef taken from the beef tenderloin, or psoas major of the steer or heifer.The beef tenderloin runs along either side of the vertebral column, and is usually harvested as two long snake-shaped cuts of beef....
 is cut. Of the steaks typically considered to be premium steaks, the sirloin is the cheapest, because the muscles still do quite a bit of work.

The sirloin is actually divided into several types of steak.






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The sirloin steak is beef
Beef

Beef is the culinary name for meat from bovines, especially domestic cattle . Beef is one of the principal meats used in the cuisine of Australia, European cuisine and the Americas, and is also important in Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia....
 steak
Steak

A steak is a slice of meat, typically beef. Most steaks are cut perpendicular to the muscle fibres, improving the perceived tenderness of the meat....
 cut from the lower portion of the ribs, continuing off the tenderloin
Beef tenderloin

Beef tenderloin, or eye fillet , is cut from the Loin#Loins in butchery of a steer or heifer. As with all quadrupeds, the tenderloin refers to the Psoas major muscle along the buttox portion....
 from which filet mignon
Filet mignon

Filet mignon is a steak cut of beef taken from the beef tenderloin, or psoas major of the steer or heifer.The beef tenderloin runs along either side of the vertebral column, and is usually harvested as two long snake-shaped cuts of beef....
 is cut. Of the steaks typically considered to be premium steaks, the sirloin is the cheapest, because the muscles still do quite a bit of work.

The sirloin is actually divided into several types of steak. The top sirloin
Top sirloin

Top sirloin is a cut of meat from the loin of a cattle. Top sirloin steaks differ from sirloin steaks in that the bone and the tenderloin have been removed....
 is the most prized of these. The bottom sirloin is less tender, much larger, and is typically what is offered when one just buys sirloin steaks instead of steaks specifically marked top sirloin. The bottom sirloin in turn connects to the sirloin tip roast, which is generally considered to be a good, if somewhat tough, roast.

Etymology

The word comes from the Middle English
Middle English

Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman conquest of England of 1066 and about 1470, when the #Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the introduction of the printing press into England by William...
 "surloine", which itself was derived from the Old French
Old French

Old French was the Romance languages dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300....
 word "surlonge", meaning "sur la longe" or "above the loin". In Modern French, the term evolved to become "aloyau" or "faux-filet".

An often quoted, but incorrect, folk etymology suggests that sirloin comes from the knighting by an English king (various kings are cited) of a piece of meat.