Pork loin or pork tenderloin which do you prefer?

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  • Posted by CTYankee 7 years, 10 months ago
    Neither -- both are too easy to dry out, both lack flavor, both have a boring texture.

    Pork shoulder is much tastier, it's the section used to make Italian sausage. Enough fat to stay juicy, and crisp up nicely. It's also got some 'dark meat' which is the parts that brown up all the way through. Delicious!

    American industrial pork has become disappointingly lean and consequently flavorless. Find a local butcher that can get locally raised hogs. You'll pay a bit more, but you'll rediscover the luxury of good pork.
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    • Posted by CTYankee 7 years, 10 months ago
      BTW: If you can't enjoy a properly grilled pork chop seasoned with salt & pepper the same way you'd enjoy a beef steak or a another meat, then the shortcoming is in the meat. Good fresh pork doesn't need a ton of herbs & spices to be simply enjoyed. It has a subtle flavor, but unfortunately, swine metabolism does allow the animals to pickup and retain off flavors from their food. That's why pigs for specialty meats like Prosciutto, are 'acorn finished'. The pigs are carefully kept away from foodstuffs that might carry an unpleasant flavor (i.e. slops), and are fed cleaned hard acorns, and carry the sweet & nutty aromas right into their body-fat.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 10 months ago
    Neither...sense I stopped eating pork, I stopped getting sick...ie, colds, flue, etc. Turns out that pork mimics A type blood and in my body it's an invading blood type...while attacking the pork, I was susceptible to viruses.

    Haven't been any kind of sick in over 20 years now.

    Back in the day though...I was a pork hound...especially bacon...used to eat a pound at a time.
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  • Posted by starznbarz 7 years, 10 months ago
    The hind leg of a Florida piney rooter wrapped in bacon then several layers of foil, put to rest on a slow smoker with some green branches from the tangerine tree floating in boat of bud light on the side heat for about 8 hours will do the job every time.
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  • Posted by jpellone 7 years, 10 months ago
    I prefer going out and killing my own wild pigs. They are overrunning and destroying crops here in central Texas. Some places will even let you get them for free just to save their crops. Depending on what I am making it all tastes good.
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    • Posted by 7 years, 10 months ago
      We don't have wild boar that I know around here (twin cities) I bet it all tastes incredible . So fresh to get your own meat. Is there a hunting season or are they such a nuisance that the looters don't tax your take.
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  • Posted by tohar1 7 years, 10 months ago
    I love buying a whole loin, dry rubbing it (I've created my own rub), allow it to sit overnight. I then throw it on my Traeger smoker/grill for about 3 hours. After that, I'll usually finish in either a slow cooker or even the oven for a couple hours (low and slow). This allows me to "pull" the meat into some crumbly, delicious, moist pork goodness!! I normally end up freezing a good percentage of it in small batches (8-10 oz.) and then use it for a few weeks to a month afterwards. Just ridiculously GOOD!!
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  • Posted by mia767ca 7 years, 10 months ago
    the strongest animals in the world..elephants and gorillas eat only greens...
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    • Posted by 7 years, 10 months ago
      Or a blue whale. Their tongues alone can weigh as much as an elephant.
      An adult blue whale can eat up to 40 million krill in a day. The whales always feed in the areas with the highest concentration of krill, sometimes eating up to 3,600 kilograms (7,900 lb) of krill in a single day. Mmmmm sea food!!!
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      • Posted by mia767ca 7 years, 10 months ago
        the oceans of the world will be dead inside 40 years...Fukushima is still leaking radiation and posioning most of the Pacific...antibiotics from human use is running into all rivers and oceans...100 year half life...all krill, plankton, and sea life will die...
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  • Posted by $ jdg 7 years, 10 months ago
    Same thing, right?
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    • Posted by 7 years, 10 months ago
      The Main Difference

      Pork loin and pork tenderloin are not cut from the same part of the animal, and in fact, look really different — pork tenderloin is thin and small, while a pork loin is wide enough that you can cut steak-like pieces from it. How you cook it, though, is the main difference. Pork tenderloin is best quickly cooked over fairly high heat, while pork loin lends itself well to slow-roasting or grilling methods.
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