I must be dumb, because I’ve been trying to figure out what this exactly means, on and off for the last couple hours.


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Picture biting through a steak across the grain, then the difference of having the meat's grain lined up with your front teeth.
There's a big difference in chewability.
I've never heard of doing this for ground meat.

ETA:
Might be easier to picture when talking about splitting wood. Split with the grain, no problem. Turn the chunk of wood sideways and take whack or put 30 tons on a wedge.... Not so easy.

Because saying the former can't stand on it own, it has to imply that I think the latter?

That’s no big deal. I vertically align my meat all the time!

Pics please.

Steve vertically aligns his cake.

And here all this time I thought the waffle hammer was for beating ones meat into alignment.

Pre-mastication the old fashion way.