The typical tool that home cooks use for tenderizing is a meat mallet. Often made of metal, it's used to pound chicken, beef, or pork to improve its texture.

Tenderizing meat is a great way to step up your kitchen game, but unless you want to clean little chunks off the wall you ought to follow this one simple rule.

Q. Does using Adolph’s Meat Tenderizer produce any side effects? Can it cause allergies (or) heart, kidney or liver problems? How safe is it? — Alice Schneiber, Highland Beach A. Some p… ...