We should be eating medium-rare pork

[Cytasticlone]

Best way i've found, especially if you're worried about cooking out the bacteria, is cooking chops sous vide. Can cook them at a lower temperature due to the increased cooking time (you can even cook them rare if you really want to) and they don't dry out anywhere near as much as if they were thrown on the grill.

1-2 hours cooking at 140 degrees, followed by a quick sear, perfect chops.

https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/04/food-lab-complete-guide-to-sous-vide-pork-chops.html

I've never done Sous Vide yet as I just haven't wanted to invest in learning and equipment. Maybe someday I will. Most likely I'll finally give in and try it because I really enjoy Kenji's(Author of the link) writing and insights into food and how he uses science to figure things out. He's big into Sous Vide. I reference his book "The Food Lab" all the time.

 

[DurangoCy]

Then you are just doing it wrong. I grew up HATING pork mainly because of the way my parents prepared the same cuts of cheap, flat, overcooked meat.

I didn't know that steaks, pork chops, chicken, burgers, etc. could be anything other than encased in a 1/8th inch thick layer of charred meat until I started grilling out in college.

Flank steak cooked to ultra well done with no seasoning was a family favorite.

 

[Bobber]

https://thetakeout.com/we-should-be-eating-medium-rare-pork-1828528374

How do you cook yours?

My opinion, if you haven't had a nice medium-rare/medium Iowa Chop, you don't know what you're missing.

A whole lot of people still live in fear of pork that's anything less than well done, though.

Great article. Trichinosis is nasty stuff, but it's hard to get it with modern US raised pork. Free Range stuff is a whole different deal.

Still think a well done Rib Eye or New York strip that melts in your mouth will beat pork, but a juicy pork chop that is not dried out is right up there.

 

[NorthCyd]

Pork is gross for the most part

 

[VTXCyRyD]

I can cook any cut of steak any way someone wants it, but I struggle like hell to cook a pork chop perfectly. What's the secret?

Thermometer

 

[bosco]

This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but I usually prefer a properly seasoned and cooked pork chop over a t-bone.

Not around here. Because it's God's country.

 

[bosco]

Pork is gross for the most part

Get a rope.

 

[bosco]

If they was only 1 type of meat I could eat for the rest of my life it would be pork without hesitation.

 

[BCClone]

I didn't know that steaks, pork chops, chicken, burgers, etc. could be anything other than encased in a 1/8th inch thick layer of charred meat until I started grilling out in college.

Flank steak cooked to ultra well done with no seasoning was a family favorite.

You guys should have saved the effort and just warmed up some jerky.

 

[derpyherky]

 

[Bret44]

I sometimes cook for an organization that I belong to, and whenever we have pork chops, we grill them to medium, and there are always a few people who get all bent out of shape about it. There is zero reasoning with them, so we always keep a few hockey pucks around for them.

Is it the Stonecutters?

 

[CloneGuy8]

The only way I cook pork is by smoking a pork shoulder. The right way to do that is to cook it to 195, which you would think would make it dry but I guess cooking it to that temp melts the collagen which makes it very juicy.

 

[Sousaclone]

I did a reverse oven sear pork chop last christmas and it was really, really good. My dad is pretty picky about pork, but even with them cooked to the no pink stage, they were still really juicy.

Also had a BBQ place in New Orleans that would do a bone in, smoked pork chop as their Friday lunch special. That was a quality piece of meat. The owner got mad if my lunch group didn't show up, as they would put 6 on specifically for us.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Pork loin, seasoned with lawry's, oregano, pepper, and garlic cloves stuffed throughout, oven roasted to 145 is heaven.

 

[jdoggivjc]

One of the things I miss about living in Iowa - it is really hard to find much in the way of pork chops here in Michigan.

 

[Macloney]

One of the things I miss about living in Iowa - it is really hard to find much in the way of pork chops here in Michigan.

You're really screwed if you want a tenderloin sandwich.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Meat is murder.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Meat is murder.

I have a feeling this will be a pretty tough crowd for you...

 

[cyrocksmypants]

I have a feeling this will be a pretty tough crowd for you...

A thread full of pure murderers?

 

[derpyherky]

Meat is murder.

Does that also mean that male masterbation is committing genocide?