Your Favorite Cut: Pork

[Pokeguyjai]

For this weekly installment, I give you guys the Herculean task of choosing your favorite cut/method of preparation when it comes to to pork.

What is your favorite cut of pork? How do you like it cooked/prepared?

And it's not just BBQ baby back ribs and pulled pork guys... how about sausages, or some of them delectable innards, and dare I mention head cheeses?

[bae]

My great-grandma's fresh-made scrapple, on butchering day with our Amish neighbors.

[Sam Mayes]

Boston butt marinated overnight then smoked for 6-7 hours. Mmmmmm

[Mr. Anthony]

Bacon. Thread over.

[Sam Mayes]

Bacon. Thread over.

Pork loin wrapped in bacon. Smoked. Even better

[chad newton]

Baby back or spare ribs bbqed.

[CaptBeach]

BACON closely followed by BUTTS and HAMS slow smoked for12-14 hours and pulled for BBQ, some vinegar and pepper sauce on the side...

[WinstonSmith]

And it's not just BBQ baby back ribs and pulled pork guys...

Aw, man. I was going to say smoked pulled pork. :dunno:


Bacon. Thread over.

For the win!

[Benjamin Liu]

Either lechon or bacon.

[Tanampo]

Bacon. Bacon. Bacon. Bacon.

[Pokeguyjai]

The pig is probably the most versatile form of meat in the world. There are literally a million different ways to cook it. Cmon guys, bacon is good but it's extremely overrated. It's just cured and smoked thin sliced pork belly. Who the hell thin slices beautifully marbled meat sandwiched in between perfectly textured layers of fat? You think thick cut bacon is good? How about bacon steak or cubed bacon? Now let's continue with that train of thought and get American palates out of that rut.

I would take a beautifully cooked sausage over bacon any day. You know what, bacon is INGREDIENT, not a dish.

And yes, I am dissing bacon.


Either lechon or bacon.

I like lechon :grin:

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[Steve Paulson]

Pick just ONE?? Dern you....

Fine. Shoulder. Big hunks of it swimming in my chili, preferably.

You know, just a little bit ago I was telling someone of my desire to head to TX for a nice feral hog hunt..... :drooling:

[JeffC]

You know what, bacon is INGREDIENT, not a dish.

And yes, I am dissing bacon.



Speechless..... I believe that this is blasphemy.

-jeff

[back2basics]

Nothing beats BACON, eggs, and coffee. I just saw a bacon alarm clock the other day for all you bacon lovers. Waking up to freshly cooked bacon.... Yes please

[strengverboten]

No pork for me.....unless its by mistake-like in a family made stew that I can't avoid eatting.


Can't wait to see how much hate I get over this :ugh:.....

[JeffC]

No pork for me.....unless its by mistake-like in a family made stew that I can't avoid eatting.


Can't wait to see how much hate I get over this :ugh:.....

Streng....I used to think we were friends....:tongue:

-jeff

[strengverboten]

Streng....I used to think we were friends....:tongue:

-jeff

:sad:...I knew it was going to go this way.....

Almost as bad as the Super Bowl threaded I hated on...

[JeffC]

:sad:...I knew it was going to go this way.....

Almost as bad as the Super Bowl threaded I hated on...

Superbowl is one thing....but bacon? I can only hope that one day you will see the light. :biggrin:

-jeff

[strengverboten]

Superbowl is one thing....but bacon? I can only hope that one day you will see the light. :biggrin:

-jeff

Does Turkey bacon count? :ugh:

[bdcbbq]

I've had the pleasure of eating just about every part of a pig there is in many different ways. The absolute best pork pleasure is the jowl meat of a hog cooked over wood coals. A small, tender, flavorful piece of meat. Add some cracklin's from the skin of a properly blistered hog and your taste buds are in hog heaven. Most go for the tenderloin, but the tenderloin is no comparison. The tenderloin is a 7 on a scale of 10 with the jowl the 10 and nothing in between. This particular cut is always the first bite a knowledgeable and experienced Pitmaster takes after cooking a hog. It is rarely shared with others. When shared it is always with a close friend or offered as a token of respect by the Pitmaster. Frankly, I shouldn't be posting this closely held delicacy.

[Mickey Rourke]

Does Turkey bacon count? :ugh:I have actually eaten some turkey bacon and sausage that was hard to distinguish from the real thing. But it is a rare thing.

As for the topic at hand, I'm a country boy, so a good thick grilled chop or tenderloin with home-made biscuits and gravy is the best way to eat the other white meat. It was Sunday breakfast weekly when I was a kid.

[JeffC]

Does Turkey bacon count? :ugh:

Just barely. But we'll make an exception in your case for time served. :biggrin:

-jeff

[Steve Paulson]

Don't know what cut it is, but those big chunks of pork in a good enchilada, with the green sauce... :drooling:

That'd be shoulder. Good stuff, ain't it? :wink:

And don't hate on streng for not liking bacon. I CALL DIBS ON HIS.

[Maddog6]

Carnitas! In a tortilla with some guacamole, yum........
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[strengverboten]

And don't hate on streng for not liking bacon. I CALL DIBS ON HIS.

I knew I could count on you for a show of kind understanding

[Steve Paulson]

I knew I could count on you for a show of kind understanding

Hey, what's a tribe-brother for? You can count on me anytime. I am your bacon solution, Jack! :finger:

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It's on like bing bong....

[bdcbbq]

There is only one type of bacon and that is good bacon. Most bacon today that comes from the grocery store is crap. Give me homemade bacon or bacon from specialty internet source, ala Burger's Smokehouse, Nueske's, Broadbent's, etc.

[gps man]

Shoulder, ribs,sausage, bacon....
Carnitas! Last year a friend and I split a whole, fresh local free range hog....
Best pork I've ever had.
We are doing the same thing this summer

[Sgt. Psycho]

How do you say bacon in Chinese?

[sac1dtr]

Carnitas! In a tortilla with some guacamole, yum........
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Cooked in lard. Crispy sweet spicy goodness.

[Heywood]

Bacon. Thread over.
Beat me to it.
though I do love a good saint Louis rack slow roasted over charcoal with apple wood smoke thrown in, slathered in home made sauce.
For Italian, I love a good slow roasted porketta.
for Spanish I love chorizo with scrambled eggs or a nice cured pork shoulder thinly sliced.
for Eastern European I love old school head cheese which I haven't been able to find since my paternal grandfather died.

[AlexSpartan]

1st. Bacon
2nd. Butt
3rd. Everything else.

[BeardedPelican]

I LOVE me some slow smoked pork sausage

[AlwaysVigilant]

Bacon is true and too easy. I actually prefer sausage, waaay more complex and diverse.

[PCGlock]

Pig in the ground in banana leaves overnight on the north shore in Hawaii. Does not matter what part, it's all good.
We would eat everything but the oink.

[Pokeguyjai]

How do you say bacon in Chinese?

Directly translated we call it five layer meat, since there are about five layers in bacon. Sounds much more pleasing in Cantonese haha.

We cut it into slabs and then marinate it with two types of gin, soy based sauces, and whatever else have you and then dry it for a few days.

To cook it you steam it and then cut it into cubes which you can then use as an ingredient.

[Vigilant]

It's a pig, take out the guts, butt (not smoking butt), and nuts, most everything else is fair game! Although some will probably eat the guts and nuts too!

[Ragsbo]

Bacon, back straps, ham, and crackings!

[Pokeguyjai]

It's a pig, take out the guts, butt (not smoking butt), and nuts, most everything else is fair game! Although some will probably eat the guts and nuts too!

Nuts and brains/nervous system, no thanks. But guts... oh ya.

I have a good recipe for large intestine stir fry, or I can ask my Korean bro for a recipe for large intestine soup. Dericious.

[bdcbbq]

Good sausage casings are intestines.

[John Chambers]

Poke, that's easy, it is the same as you. Dusty's ribs from the Ranch in Coleman.

To all who gave not been there, that is what Poke is gnawing on in his avatar. :)




For this weekly installment, I give you guys the Herculean task of choosing your favorite cut/method of preparation when it comes to to pork.

What is your favorite cut of pork? How do you like it cooked/prepared?

And it's not just BBQ baby back ribs and pulled pork guys... how about sausages, or some of them delectable innards, and dare I mention head cheeses?

[Pokeguyjai]

Poke, that's easy, it is the same as you. Dusty's ribs from the Ranch in Coleman.

To all who gave not been there, that is what Poke is gnawing on in his avatar. :)

Easily the best ribs I've ever had.

[Vigilant]

Nuts and brains/nervous system, no thanks. But guts... oh ya.

I have a good recipe for large intestine stir fry, or I can ask my Korean bro for a recipe for large intestine soup. Dericious.Evansville Indiana has one of the largest street fairs in the nation every fall, the food of choice? Brain sammiches!:yikes:

[fire4effect]

Butterfly pork loins hammered out thin. Drop them in egg n milk and coat with flour. Fry in skillet.