Preparing for 4th of July. She got the other meats (chicken and spare ribs) and came home with the smallest sliver of skin off pork belly. She was so proud of herself too!
So my question is, any unique suggestions for me to do on the smoker? Or perhaps as an appetizer while the other stuff is cooking? I know about poor man’s burnt ends, any recipe suggestions? Or anything unique you’ve seen or done with a ration of pork belly?
Picture for scale. There are some easy jokes to be made, but I’ll leave that to the comment section.
by IzzyIsMyQueen0604
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I’m not sure it’s possible to get a divorce this close to July 4 but worth a try.
Guess you’re making pork belly burnt ends
Maaaaaybe some pork belly burnt ends?
Stop shopping at Whole Foods. That’ll help.
Pork belly burnt ends. Not much else you can do.
Drink your juice box and kiss her forehead ❤️
Remarry, lol just make some pork belly sliders to something like that
Was it Izzy who did this to you?
Looks like quit burnt ends ..
Maybe for her the comparison was a very decent size one, just throwing that out there
I’m a grown man on a smoking subreddit and now I’m craving a juice box…
Burnt ends is the answer here.
Thank her for providing for a great Reddit post and giving us all a laugh. I’d keep her btw, she did the grocery shopping as you said 😉
Make one single slice of bacon. And serve with an ostrich egg.
Laugh and make a small amount of bacon
Yup, appetizer that bitch up. *sigh* ok here we go.
Cut it into thirds then score the might side of each of those thirds three times along the width. Don’t cut the skin. use a knife to scrape any hairs off the skin. Get the whole thing dry as fuck and season the meat side. Flip it over.
Use two skewers to poke tons of tiny holes in the skin. Make them very close together and don’t go through the skin. If you can see the holes very clearly then you are likely making holes that are too large. It is critical that there are many, many holes. get the skin dry as fuck again and sprinkle salt on it (how much? idk dude just salt that shit.) leave it there for 5 minutes. Use the knife to brush the salt off (you heard me) then get it dry as fuck again. Then put some DISTILLED. WHITE. VINEGAR. on it, just enough that you can spread it over the skin with your finger. Put it on a wire rack skin side up uncovered for the better part of 24 hours in the fridge.
Take it out of the fridge and get it dry as fuck yet again which won’t be very hard if you didn’t fuck up the holes or the vinegar. When you think its dry enough, make it dryer. ok good its dry now. Don’t season the skin but if you want to season the meat again go ahead.
Put it on the smoker and immediately cover the skin in a blanket of way too much salt. After 90 minutes to 2 hours the salt will form a crust and you can take that shit off. It won’t make it too salty unless you left the initial salt on during prep for longer than 5 minutes (by alot). Keep smoking skin side up until its done. While you’re at it, smoke some jalapenos and make a gochujang bbq sauce.
OK good the pork belly is done now. let it rest for up to an hour but at least 30 minutes. Get a pan of oil hot. Put the skin in the hot oil and fry it for 2-3 minutes until it’s beautiful and you can’t believe how good you are at cooking, then take it out and let cool for a few minutes.
Turn the pork belly either upside down or sideways and, using the lines that you originally scored in the meat, cut each of the three pieces into 3 cubes. Serve those with the jalapeno and gochujang bbq sauce, skin side up on a plate as an appetizer.
Smoke it day before cool it then chop it into small pieces. Mix said pieces into jalapeno popper filling. Smoke bacon wrapped pork belly stuffed poppers day of.
Roll it and tie it and make chashu. It’s the traditional pork ramen meat and, sorry folks, my favorite way to cook pork belly. A cut this width is perfect for getting an awesome browning on all sides and really taking in all the seasonings and braising liquid.
https://www.chopstickchronicles.com/ramen-pork-chashu/
Get a new one, after you cook the belly of course.
Ramen!
We 100% need a follow up on the cook.
Pin wheel
Make char sui pork belly bites for an appetizer
Unwrap that and chase her around with it while swinging it over your head propeller style
So many people ragging on your wife while I’m wondering wtf the butcher was thinking. No way she described something so specific to get this cut of meat. Butcher was on one to send this out. I’ve never had an issue getting a cut I needed from Whole Foods so this feels like an individual issue, not institutional.
Send her back to school. That’s not a square.
So many Chinese dishes are calling my name.
You’ve just found out she is a fan of length, not girth lol. Not sure what your gonna do with that haha.
Lawyer up
Delete Facebook
Hit the gym
A rectangle is composed of squares. If you didn’t specify the quantity or size, then she exceeded your stated expectations.
Cube it up. Candy it. Add it to cowboy beans
Burnt ends.
Burnt ends is the answer!!
Ask her what she’s gonna eat?
Renew your vows. You got a keeper!
Can you put a banana next to it for scale?
Burnt ends ez oz brother 🤙