On Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 4:30:19 AM UTC-6, Fruitiest of Fruitcakes wrote:
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> On 8 Dec 2018, wrote
> (in >):
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> > On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 5:39:47 PM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote:
> > >
> > > OTOH, you need 5 spice for roast pork.
> > >
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr6xswgiIyA
> > Oh yum, a big old piece of fat meat. No thanks! My mother used to cook
> > some of the most gawd awful pieces of fat meat and she's rather had that
> > than lean meat. I guess that comes from being a farm girl and there was
> > fat meat on the table everyday. It would just turn us kids stomachs to
> > see that on the table.
> >
> > This brought back some unpleasant memories.
>
> Thats a shame because the flavour of the meat is in the fat, which is why
> most lean meat is almost tasteless - unless the retailers have added chemical
> flavourings.
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> Cooked properly (i.e. slowly), pork fat will render down to a gorgeously soft
> product which just melts in the mouth.
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>
You can definitely see the fat did not render down to a gorgeously soft
product that melts in your mouth. This was overly fatty cooked as a
large chunk. The crispy crackling skin sounded great but the greasy
soft, chewy fat was stomach churning. Believe me, I've seen enough of
this type of food on the table as a child. Fat is supposed to flavor,
not be the main course with a tiny strip of lean.