Welcome to the EGGhead Forum - a great place to visit and packed with tips and EGGspert advice! You can also join the conversation and get more information and amazing kamado recipes by following Big Green Egg to Experience our World of Flavor™ at:
Want to see how the EGG is made? Click to Watch
Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest | Youtube | Vimeo
Share your photos by tagging us and using the hashtag #BigGreenEgg.
Share your photos by tagging us and using the hashtag #BigGreenEgg.
Want to see how the EGG is made? Click to Watch
PorckChop's debut and when you have these and 30 minutes you make this
Options
Austin Egghead
Posts: 3,966
Coated in course Kosher salt and let sit at RT for 1 hour. Removed excess salt and patted dry.
Placed CI comal on coals and let get hot. Seared the chops on all sides for about 1 minute to form a crust. Moved to felt line and cooked direct at 400 until IT read 140 (about 8 minutes/the 4 sides). Simple cook S&P only seasoning.
Served with arborio rice (next day's cook was bbq'd pork fried rice). PorkChop is a keeper, very tasty and very lean for a heritage breed. Larry got two more and they will be ready for slaughter by May
South Texas favorite cheese enchiladas (and it it not friday)
These and 30 minutes
yields this
Large, small and mini now Egging in Rowlett Tx
Comments
-
So I'm guessing pork chop was your first home raised pig?? In very interested in how that went.
Cook looks amazing._______________________________________________XLBGE -
That's some tasty looking food! :-bdXL, Large, Small, Mini Eggs, Shirley Fabrication 24x36 Patio, Humphrey's Weekender, Karubecue C-60, MAK 1-Star General, Hasty Bake Gourmet, Santa Maria Grill, Webers: 14" WSM, 22.5" OTG, 22.5" Kettle Premium, WGA Charcoal, Summit S-620 NG
Bay Area, CA -
MrCookingNurse said:So I'm guessing pork chop was your first home raised pig?? In very interested in how that went. Cook looks amazing.
Yes PorkChop and Bacon were our first try at doing our own. We bought them from the breeder who does only free ranged pasture raised Red Wattle pigs. They were young and just at slaughter weight. We bought them to see if we liked the taste of the breed. They were at slaughter weight, 400 pounds, so we only feed them for 2 weeks before slaughter. We fed them certified organic veggie based feed ($$)
They are very lean without a lot of fat. The butcher kept remarking how lean they were. Larry has been so impressed that he just purchased two more piglets and has enlarged the pen from 10 acres to 20. He also plans to plant beets and and other root veggies for their forage. The plan is to keep them till spring and either use them for breed stock or slaughter.
Large, small and mini now Egging in Rowlett Tx -
R2. Thanks yes very tasty.Large, small and mini now Egging in Rowlett Tx
-
-
Those chops look great, Joan!__________________________________________Dripping Springs, Texas.Just west of Austintatious
-
Wow, Joan! That is aweseom. Pork chops look great. Did you keep the cheeks? Got any plans for those?
Rowlett, Texas
Griffin's Grub or you can find me on Facebook
The Supreme Potentate, Sovereign Commander and Sultan of Wings
-
Thanks Chris and VI and GriffinYes we did keep the cheeks from both PorkChop and Bacon, but I am not sure how I will cook em. Any ideas?Large, small and mini now Egging in Rowlett Tx
-
I've never cooked them, but I had them at Lavo in Las Vegas in a ravioli type pasta and they were amazing. If you can figure out how to cure them and make guanciale out of it, that is what is supposed to be used in carbonara, not bacon.
Rowlett, Texas
Griffin's Grub or you can find me on Facebook
The Supreme Potentate, Sovereign Commander and Sultan of Wings
-
Those pork chops look excellent. I never seem that thick in stores.
Cooking on an XL and Medium in Bethesda, MD. -
Really nice Joan! I guess if you had them for only two weeks you didn't get that close to them?
Steve
Caledon, ON
-
We just reserved a grass fed grain finished steer from my uncle. It will be ready in February. I'd love to one day work slowly into having a few animals of my own.
If you don't mind sharing, how much was the slaughter? Get about 150 lbs of meat?
Edit:
Just went and found where you brought the pigs home. Thanks for the info!_______________________________________________XLBGE -
WOW Joan. Just wow.........................Salado TX & 30A FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Plus a couple Pit Boss Pellet Smokers.
-
Griffin said:I've never cooked them, but I had them at Lavo in Las Vegas in a ravioli type pasta and they were amazing. If you can figure out how to cure them and make guanciale out of it, that is what is supposed to be used in carbonara, not bacon.
I've never made guanciale, but I have an uncle who has and shares with my parents. It is just tremendously good, almost like a porkier/fattier bacon. The recipe he uses is:
LBGE
Pikesville, MD
-
Austin Egghead said:Thanks Chris and VI and GriffinYes we did keep the cheeks from both PorkChop and Bacon, but I am not sure how I will cook em. Any ideas?
Joan,
Make Guanciale, trust me.
Steve
Caledon, ON
-
With the next pigs, are you going to diversify their diet to get more fat on board? Talk about old school pork.
-
I love looking at these threads before lunch! Those chops and enchiladas look great! I hope I can make something like that some day!Houston, TX
-
Was Porkchop a Duroc?_______________________________________________XLBGE
-
@ACN thanks for the link. I don't have a second fridge, but I will pass it onto to #1 son and see what he says.@Eggcelsior We have been reading up on pigs and their diet in the wild. They like root veggies. NIL is preparing their pasture this weekend. They will eat meat, but everything we have read says don't give them meat based or corn based feeds. The certified organic veggie feed we purchased was big $$$ but we will continue to use it as a finish food until we find something better. We are new to pig raising we come from beef and horse breeding families.We will stick to the Red Wattle cause they are easy to handle, grow fast and Texas hardy (think heat). The downside is they are very lean with very little fat. But they are very tasty and very clean smelling (no pig funk smell when the vacuum bag was opened).@LS learned long ago I have a soft heart for furry things NIL says if you name what they are intended for it is easier to take them to slaughter....I didn't go .@MCNurse PorkChop was the smaller one on the right and dressed out at 128. His sibling, Bacon, was a little larger and dressed out at 148. The entire cost, including butchering was $2.24/ pound for us (paid extra to have the butcher vacuum seal) and I think NIL's cost was $2.14/pound (paper wrapped). Not sure if there was any Duroc in these. According to what we have read there may be a DNA link depending on the location of the breeder.Large, small and mini now Egging in Rowlett Tx
-
Wow - super informative thread and tasty looking too!#1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February 2013 • #3 Mini May 2013A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
Categories
- All Categories
- 182.7K EggHead Forum
- 15.7K Forum List
- 459 EGGtoberfest
- 1.9K Forum Feedback
- 10.3K Off Topic
- 2.2K EGG Table Forum
- 1 Rules & Disclaimer
- 9K Cookbook
- 12 Valentines Day
- 91 Holiday Recipes
- 223 Appetizers
- 516 Baking
- 2.4K Beef
- 88 Desserts
- 163 Lamb
- 2.4K Pork
- 1.5K Poultry
- 30 Salads and Dressings
- 320 Sauces, Rubs, Marinades
- 543 Seafood
- 175 Sides
- 121 Soups, Stews, Chilis
- 35 Vegetarian
- 100 Vegetables
- 312 Health
- 292 Weight Loss Forum