Favorite cuts of meat

[gulfporter]

On 9/2/2019 at 11:35 AM, HungryChris said:

As a younger and (out of necessity)  more frugal person, one of my favorite cuts of meat was the lamb shank, with plenty of salt and pepper, cooked on the grill. They were cheap  cuts back then, until Emeril Lagasse made that bargain go away. I still remember watching him talk about them on his show one day, which ended something like: "Lamb shanks, if you see 'em, you get 'em, baby!!" Within a month, the price of lamb shanks more than tripled and I was forced to find something else for dinner.

HC

Here in Mexico, chamorro (pork shank) is extremely popular.  I have never shopped for pork shanks in the US, maybe it is reasonably priced.  You might want to try it.  Quick! before it gets featured on Food Network 👩‍🍳 🖥️

 

Chamorro is not as delicate as lamb shanks; it holds up well to a spicy red chile sauce.  Every bit as tender as lamb shanks if not more so.  

Edited September 3, 2019 by gulfporter (log)

[gfweb]

10 hours ago, teonzo said:

I don't have a favourite cut or animal. I love variety. Can't choose between chicken thighs, bone marrow, woodcock, wild boar, beef steak, pork ribs, sweetbreads, duck breast, tripes, beef diaphragm, chicken innards, pork head, all kind of livers...

What I try to avoid is beef esophagus (like chewing a tasteless piece of rubber) and chicken breast (the rest of the animal is much much better).

 

 

 

Teo

 

But sous vide chicken or turkey breast is pretty great. Smoked then SVd is even better. 

[rotuts]

I agree w @gfweb

 

Ck and Turkey Br shine w SV treatment:  tender , moist.  I smoke after SV , but just because that works for me

 

and  either Br flattened a little , then stuffed and tied then SV can be outstanding.

Edited September 4, 2019 by rotuts (log)

[Ann_T]

My favourites change depending on what day you ask me.

But Lamb shanks, Oxtails and veal shanks would always been on the list.

 

 

@Margaret Pilgrim, oh yum.  I love sweetbreads and always order when they are on the menu.  

Haven't seen them at any of the butchers around here.  

[Margaret Pilgrim]

31 minutes ago, Ann_T said:

I love sweetbreads and always order when they are on the menu.  

Haven't seen them at any of the butchers around here.  

You usually won't find them in a butcher case because they are so perishable.    But most/many butchers will order them in for you.

 

ETA, one wonderful thing about eating out is that you can order foods that your Dpartners don't like.    Half of the things on my favorite list aren't household favorites.     So when I see them on a menu, I'm all in,

Edited September 4, 2019 by Margaret Pilgrim (log)

[scubadoo97]

2 hours ago, Ann_T said:

My favourites change depending on what day you ask me.

But Lamb shanks, Oxtails and veal shanks would always been on the list.

 

 

@Margaret Pilgrim, oh yum.  I love sweetbreads and always order when they are on the menu.  

Haven't seen them at any of the butchers around here.  

 

Yours and mine.    

 

I’ll take thse these cuts over a steak any day

Edited September 4, 2019 by scubadoo97 (log)

[Captain]

All of the above for my. Especially Lamb shanks and Rump Cap. As in Picanha.

[eugenep]

my favorite would have to be sous vide pork belly 

 

i used the cooks illustrated recipe from their SV book yesterday night - 8 hours at 170 

 

super yummy. i hadn't tasted new flavors like this for many months or longer 

[kayb]

On 9/3/2019 at 3:07 PM, gulfporter said:

Here in Mexico, chamorro (pork shank) is extremely popular.  I have never shopped for pork shanks in the US, maybe it is reasonably priced.  You might want to try it.  Quick! before it gets featured on Food Network 👩‍🍳 🖥️

 

Chamorro is not as delicate as lamb shanks; it holds up well to a spicy red chile sauce.  Every bit as tender as lamb shanks if not more so.  

 

 

I have had trouble finding a pork shank that is not cured. Murphy's Wine Bar in Atlanta, one of my very favorite restaurants, does a spectacular pork shank braised in apple cider. I have tried several times to find fresh shanks to try to recreate it, but have never succeeded.

 

[teonzo]

On 9/4/2019 at 12:05 AM, gfweb said:

But sous vide chicken or turkey breast is pretty great. Smoked then SVd is even better. 

 

Seems like it's just a matter of personal preference. I tried chicken breast prepared in many different ways, from quality animals and cooked by skilled people. Never did much for me. I much prefer all the rest of the chicken. I love the neck, the cockscombs, the small triangular part just above the ass (don't know the name in English)... just never cared for the breast. If I had to choose about chicken, probably I would pick the unformed eggs and the tripe, but I would cry knowing I would be leaving out the liver, the heart, the gizzard, the thigh. Give me a risotto with all the innards then a roasted thigh and I'll leave you all the chicken breasts you want, so we are both happy.

 

 

 

Teo

 

[gfweb]

45 minutes ago, teonzo said:

 

Seems like it's just a matter of personal preference. I tried chicken breast prepared in many different ways, from quality animals and cooked by skilled people. Never did much for me. I much prefer all the rest of the chicken. I love the neck, the cockscombs, the small triangular part just above the ass (don't know the name in English)... just never cared for the breast. If I had to choose about chicken, probably I would pick the unformed eggs and the tripe, but I would cry knowing I would be leaving out the liver, the heart, the gizzard, the thigh. Give me a risotto with all the innards then a roasted thigh and I'll leave you all the chicken breasts you want, so we are both happy.

 

 

 

Teo

 

I’m Not saying breast is the choice meat in a chicken.  But it can be done nicely. 

[MetsFan5]

Hot dogs made of random pork products, Taylor Ham and canned corn beef hash. 

[chromedome]

11 hours ago, teonzo said:

 I much prefer all the rest of the chicken. I love the neck, the cockscombs, the small triangular part just above the ass (don't know the name in English)...

 

That would be the bit we call the "oyster."

[Anna N]

2 hours ago, chromedome said:

 

That would be the bit we call the "oyster."

Really?  I thought that was the one we called the pope’s nose. 

[blue_dolphin]

16 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Really?  I thought that was the one we called the pope’s nose. 

Or what my grandmother called, "the part went over the fence last"

[rotuts]

I think the oyster is a small pice of dark meat , close to the thigh , but on the carcass / lower rib cage.

 

in this picture its on the upper far R , and , guess what , oyster shaped !

 

 

you have to know its there when you bone out a chicken ir other fowl.

 

https://www.kitchensanity.com/food/what-are-chicken-oysters/

 

and my mother did call the chickens ' tail ' the Pope's Nose.

[chromedome]

36 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Really?  I thought that was the one we called the pope’s nose. 

 

I'd assumed the tail was self-explanatory. Perhaps I'm wrong.

[liuzhou]

3 hours ago, chromedome said:

 

That would be the bit we call the "oyster."

 

The oyster ain't the tail or just above the ass and there are two of them in all fowl still in possession of the standard legs their maker supplies. They aren't triangular either. They are oyster-shaped, hence the descriptor. The pope's nose is roughly triangular and like noses, singular.  It is  so-named, perhaps because of its resemblance to the nasal appendage of Pope Alexander VI or someone else. It depends who you ask.

It is also referred to as the parson's nose or sultan's nose to followers  of different faiths.

Edited September 5, 2019 by liuzhou (log)

[Margaret Pilgrim]

The oyster is a treat the carver gets.    It's interesting how many people don't know about this lovely nugget and just toss it with the carcass into the soup pot.

[Captain]

23 hours ago, teonzo said:

the small triangular part just above the ass

The Parson's Nose My favourite also.  We use to fight for it as kids. Now nobody eats it.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

There was a joke in my father's family.    He had three older sisters.    When they had a roast chicken or turkey, the girls would start calling out, "I want the tail!"   I want the tail!"   "No, no, I want the tail!"    Not to be left out, he would start howling for the tail, and being the boy, baby and spoiled, he would get it.    And they would enjoy drumsticks and thighs.    I don't know how old he was before the ruse dawned on him.   

Edited September 6, 2019 by Margaret Pilgrim (log)

[Owtahear]

Well I love a great ribeye or pork tenderloin as much as the next 'murrican.     

 

I find myself liking more and more "smaller bites", more variety instead of the classic American Big Hunk of Meat (even though it is still great), starch, veggie and side salad to feel good about myself.  

 

I also like Duck and Lamb over any other meats.     

 

But I am more partial to long stewed or braised cuts of meats, or quick cooked cutlets than I am big steakhouse ticket items

[Anna N]

On 9/5/2019 at 9:06 AM, Anna N said:

Really?  I thought that was the one we called the pope’s nose. 

 

 

The piece of which we speak.

[Duvel]

33 minutes ago, Anna N said:

 

 

The piece of which we speak.

Hmm ... Pope Benedikt XVI, I presume  ?

[Anna N]

2 hours ago, Duvel said:

Hmm ... Pope Benedikt XVI, I presume  ?

No names, no pack drill.