I was working on varmint-proofing my grill today so I had to make the pork butt in the slow cooker and I rendered the fat on the stove. I am only using the grill now (after dark) so my wife doesn’t tell me the house smells of fried food! ¡Carnitas!
by newtonbassist
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That’s how I do carnitas. Slow cooker while at work, grill on cast iron when I get home.
This might be a dumb question but does the pan lessen the charcoal taste ?
🤤best use for leftover pulled pork! Looks and sounds delicious!
How do you serve that once ready? I’ve got a couple lbs of pulled pork I made and trying to think of ways to use it.
Pork carnitas for the win.
I prefer mine on the crispier side too! Red or green salsa?
It’s on a grill, it fits…
Hey bro. NSFW that shit.
How are you proofing the grill? Looking for advice!
Have always enjoyed but have never made carnitas. What’s a good recipe?
Heck yes!
I’ll throw a wok onto my grill and regularly recommend it to coworkers.
House smelling like carnitas is a win.
It’s allowed in my mouth.
Needs a nsfw tag 🙂
I have been cooking so much food with my cast iron and lodge carbon steel on my grill while it’s hot so I don’t heat up my house. Cast iron works so well on the grill. And lots of foil pouches for veggies too
First off, yes I think this counts. I also think this is a good opportunity to discuss grilling vs griddling.
Is it a regional thing to call griddling or cooking on a flattop or plancha “grilling”? In the fifteen years or so I worked in the industry, the number of cooks and F&B professionals who called the flattop “the grill” was pretty high. Even with places with a grill—they’d call the flattop “the grill” and the grill “the chargrill”.
Add to that, you’ve got Brits who call broiling “grilling”—which does make sense if you think about a broiler or a salamander as an upside down grill. And terms like “grilled cheese” give credence to calling the flattop a grill.
It could be said that cooking on a large flat surface that’s not a pan is considered grilling. But then you have things like a tilt skillet—I’ve never once heard someone say “grill it on the tilt skillet”. And I guess if a grill pan/press is considered a grill, it’s not too far fetched to say that a flat version of a grill press is a grill as well.
It makes me wonder if the griddle/grill conflation is regional, generational—or maybe the two are just so closely related that they’re interchangeable regardless of any demographic boundaries.
To be clear, I’m not trying to gatekeep—in my entire time working BOH, I never fought anyone about it, I just went with whatever that particular establishment called it. But I’ve always been curious about the mixed usage of the term.
That looks amazing… Just needs some guac, salsa verde, pickled onions, cotija and lime 🤌🤌🤌