Waitrose Porchetta, Pork Loin Wrapped In Herbs and Pork Belly

Fun let’s do welcome to bad food Vlog my ears on straight Tada I’m dressed in the stupid Panda uniform for this one so we’ll be to make it fun also let’s do a little dancing thing on it it’s Christmas Eve this is when this video is coming out actually filmed the

Day before and now today I’m cooking this which was the ludicrously expensive poretta from waitrose the cooking instructions will appear on the screen for a few seconds while I I’ll dance in the Corner so I’ve got to cook it for 90 minutes it’s got to go in the oven for at a 220° centigrade and looking at that oh yeah look over here or over here or over here I think I’m going to put it up there basically it’s going to cook um

220 for 90 minutes hopefully that’ll render some of the fat I have to put a tasp a te a tablespoon of oil on the outside I’m going to use uh I think I’m going to use olive oil because it has the lowest flash point and it’s going to melt fastest and help render

The fat or maybe I should use the hottest one I should use the cooking oil that’s probably going to be better think I use the cooking oil and what I’m going do you got to over animate when you got a stupid large head like this what I’m also going to do

Is I’m going to ensure that we cover it in salt and then I’m going to cook it it then needs to rest for 20 minutes and I’ll be serving it with some sauteed sort of uh air fried potatoes you know and it’s going to look amazing you’re going to see it it’s not

Going to be ready for like 2 hours and I’m probably not going to keep this head on for 2 hours right I might die let’s get on with getting it prepared here is the beautiful pretta I guess this is a form of oh there’s a lot of liquid in

There interesting I will be cutting it open in here we leave the string on for the cooking I believe for this one it looks very nice doesn’t it it is a wonderful piece of meat I will check how much it costs I think it was in the region of 40 or

50 which at the moment I believe is almost the same in dollars and this is oh it’s been marinating in something oh that smells good Rosemary entire Rosemary it’s been marinating in Rosemary oh it smells nice oh look at all that at the end oh it’s got rosemary

Paste and garlic in the middle oh my God that smells good can you see that wow look there’s all the juices this is going straight in the bin and I’m not washing my hands yet cuz I’m going to have to rub it ow on the skin is perfectly scored

Look at that these are things I did not know handling the packet oh oh that’s beautiful it’s rolled so this is what poet is I’m going to have to look up what a poretta is and talk to you about it in a minute but oh my God the smell is

Amazing oh this is going to smell so good cooking absolutely amazing oh there there’s just you know what it’s got to be olive oil cuz that’s what they’ve used to stuff it going by the smell yeah they’ve already used olive oil inside it so I’m going to continue with

That also I don’t want to stick into the bottom of the pan so oh oh there’s a juices thing there there we go get rid of that make sure there’s a bit of oil in the bottom of the pan as well so it doesn’t stick slide them around a bit

There we are wow I got to rub that in there we go make sure it’s covering all the fat no bit unordained I’ve got to leave it to rest as well so let’s get the salt on top of it as well unfortunately as you know this is

The last of the special Himalayan salt so this is uh probably going to be the last it says to rub the salt in but uh I think just getting it all over the top there is going to it’s going to do the job the oil’s rubbed in there we go and

It’s time for it to go in the oven it’s being resting uh there’s one more thing I need to do this is what I need a meat thermometer going to stick it in it right in the middle oh there we are and that’ll tell tell me when it’s cooked there we are

Sorry about that not not quite quite a correct view there there that’ll tell me when it’s cooked you see it’s already getting colder and in the oven she goes whoops you know when you ACD GE you didn’t take the food out of the oven I didn’t know he’s there yes you

Did you got your food from there why you didn’t look it you you put it there sorry my assistant left food in the oven which is now burning it’s all right it still looks okay it’s from a previous video let’s try that again let’s put it in the oven this time I

Didn’t realize things have been left in the oven there middle of the oven look what have been left in the oven was these little swirls I did in an earlier video they’re not actually burnt they’ll probably taste nicer now they’ve been double baked these actually worked out really nice they’re really crispy and

Crunchy and overcooking them seems to be one of those mistakes which makes them taste yummy I love Christmas to go with the poretta I’m going to quickly peel some potatoes which will be very fast and I probably will cut away so you don’t have

To film all of it I’m also going to peel some carrots and then I’m going to place them in the microwave to par boil them the timer has gone off which is amazing but this is all rubbish um I’m going to cut the potatoes up and put them in

Here um nothing was ready by the way uh interestingly enough so I think I’m going to do the roast potatoes in the air fryer whoops after microwaving them which is essentially the equivalent of par boiling them and the reason I’m using this knife is I can’t find my good one

There was a guy called um Yan when I was younger who used to only chop with a Cleaver I’m beginning to see how much of a feet that was because it is a very uning KN unwieldy knife it’s really hard solid and difficult to manipulate these are quite sweet

So little bit of olive oil little bit of salt little bit of pepper and in that goes that oven was toasty let’s have a look how the Big M is doing I had to put some water in the bottom because the stuff that was dribbling out of it was

Burning the timer is up but the temperature is just a little bit lighter than it should be uh let me get some oven gloves sorry about that so here we are looking amazing but if you look at the temperature there we’re just aad off of the correct temperature what I’m going to do

Um Peta I think is shouldn’t have any pink inside it so I think it needs to get to 77 so it’s got to go back in for a little bit but the water on the bottom has prevented any more of the outside burning at least so this going back in

It’s just a few de off the correct temperature so three or four we’re not talking too long 15 20 minutes and in the meantime let’s take these and pop them in the microwave you need about 7 Minutes in the microwave there’s a lot of them there we

Go here we are there you can see it is at the correct temperature um there sorry you couldn’t read that there 177 perfect now I’ve got to leave that to rest for 20 minutes light it up better and here we are at the yummy stuff here are the

Potatoes they are now going straight in here into the air fryer and that’s going to be pretty incredible that’s a better view isn’t it in they go maximum temperature maximum effort they’re cooked already basically in the microwave for 7 minutes they just need Browning off and they’ll be perfect

Yummy oh I also covered them in olive oil and shook them up to get the olive oil only into the outside unlike with the potato wedges where I put the olive oil in before I microwave with roast potatoes you only want the oil on the outside so you do it after your

Microwave this is an important point so it is rested it is ready let’s cut through this and see what we’ve got going on here ooh oh look there’s all the oh look at that no pink left exactly as described so this oh going to have to remove some of

The skin to be able to cut it okay there we are oh there we got in what am I going to do here cut in and get some more oh let’s try some of that meat and some of the stuffing and I’ll show you the rest of it when it’s all plated

Up M amazing this is what the potatoes came out like fluffy in the inside only crunchy on the outside perfect right I’ll play it up and then I’ll show you at the end and here we are so it’s done I’ve cut it here is the lovely fish it’s tastes so

Good unlike ham this had to be cooked a little bit thing I looked it up got it to the right temperature I cut it thickly instead of lots of thin slices I don’t think it’s supposed to be like I think it’s supposed to be quite thick and chunky

And it’s more sort of a done it really as a roast but I think it’s more sort of a a treat this stuff is all Rose me it’s so nice m m m oh the crunchy skin is rendered perfectly the potatoes potatoes 7 Minutes in the

Microwave air fryer between 1 1 and 1/2 kilos always comes out perfectly the air fryer just Jes job of just you only put a little bit of oil on them after you microwave them it does the job of just perfectly finishing them so that is the wait and partners

Petta oh a beautiful piece of meat marinated in this Rosemary well I’m off to eat the rest of this and start my Christmas celebrations thanks for watching Merry Christmas and have a good Christmas Eve bye

4 Comments

  1. The official industry term for that black pad is a soak pad. The unofficial term everyone uses is diaper. I’ve worked in the American grocery industry for about 15 years if you ever have any questions.

  2. That's EXPENSIVE. It's $50 to $63 USD!
    I would absolutely demolish that pork! You should try to make your own porchetta, and maybe do some more Mediterranean side dishes? Like some brocolli rabe, aka rapini, sauted in garlic & olive oil?

    MERRY CHRISTMAS. It's still Christmas Eve here, and I'm having a tiny Feast of the Seven Fishes, as befits my heritage. Although it's just 6 fishes, and I only squeezed in number 6 by adding anchovy to my tomato sauce!

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