The Magic Bus Trip

MetalMama · Location: GA Joined: 21 Feb 2008 Posts: 564 Gender: Female

Ok - so the grocery stores here carry a couple different things of pork - but I'm clueless as to what they are or how you eat them.

Pork rinds are obvious and they are so-so to me. I was wondering if you could buy them in raw form and fry them up instead of baking - would it just be pork fat or is it skin?

Then they have cracklin's - these are usually over near the fresh pork and are in a plastic bag - they look like small hard brown bits. Actually they remind me a lot of cornnuts in appearance. What exactly do you do with these?

Then there are large bags of Chitlings or Chiterlins over in the frozen section. Unfortunately I can't describe what those look like because I can't see in the bag. Wondering about those do.

Also - I've seen some sliced 'pork for stewing' that looks just like bacon without any lean - is this straight pork fat good cooked up like bacon or is there something weird about it that it must be cooked for long periods to be edible?

Oh - one more thing - I'm constantly looking for pork belly ever since Dean made it and I never see any - could it also have another name?

None of these items have any cooking instructions on them. Just trying to broaden my fat knowledge. Thanks in advance!

y0u · Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 8:45 pm Post subject: Re: Need an education on Pork fat

MetalMama · Location: GA Joined: 21 Feb 2008 Posts: 564 Gender: Female

Thanks y0u - had no idea you could just eat those cracklins as is - I may have to try some.