Hand operated steak tenderizer and cuber

A hand-operated meat tenderizer comprising a handle portion, a cylinder rotatably supported by said handle portion, and a plurality of cutting blades disposed along the curved surface of said cylinder in predetermined and varying angular relationship to the axis of rotation thereof, whereby when said cylinder is pressably and rotatably passed over the planar surfaces of a cut of meat said surfaces are cuttably pierced in such manner as to effect tenderization of the meat, said cutting blades being truncated triangular in configuration and arranged along the curved surface of said cylinder in rows normally oriented relative to the axis of rotation thereof, said cutting blades within each row bearing a predetermined common angular relationship to said axis of rotation of said cylinder, said predetermined common angular relationship of said cutting blades within a given row differing from the predetermined angular relationship of the cutting blades within adjacent rows, said cutting blades within alternating rows being arranged in perpendicular relationship to said axis of rotation of said cylinder, and said cutting blades within the rows adjoining said alternating rows being acutely angled relative to said axis of rotation, with alternating rows of said adjoining rows having their cutting blades oppositely angled relative to the cutting blades of their alternately adjoining acutely angled rows.