During the Spring Festival, every household buys pork elbows. As the folk proverb goes, "Meat is not as good as pork". It can be seen that pork occupies an important position in people's hearts. The pig elbow is the most sought-after part of the pig and the most delicious part of the whole pig tissue. Seeing Christy Chung, a beautiful woman and a big star, eating a pig elbow regardless of the image, you can imagine how delicious this pig elbow is. I can't help drooling every time I think of Dongpo's elbow, which melts and is soft and plump.

However, friends often complain to me that they are not very good at choosing, and they are even more afraid of buying the wrong ones during the New Year. My old uncle, who works as a chef in a restaurant, told me that people must pay attention to the selection of pork elbows. The wedding banquet in the hotel is all about the back elbow, because it is cheap and the hotel can get more profits. At present, the price of the front elbow is 25 yuan per catty, and the price of the rear elbow is 19 yuan per catty. Although the rear elbow is cheap, its taste is much worse than that of the front elbow. Let's share the purchase method with you.

Pig's front elbow, also known as the front hoof. Generally speaking, the front elbow tastes better than the back elbow. Because the pig mainly relies on the front elbow to exert force during normal activities, although all limbs are moving, the hind legs only follow the movement and exert less force. Therefore, most of the front elbows are lean, the meat is alive, and the taste is fat but not greasy. Meat is often cooked with skin, such as braised elbow and braised elbow.

The pig's back elbow, also called the back hoof, is far inferior to the front elbow in taste. Because when pigs walk, their hind legs are basically not too hard, so the meat on the back elbow is relatively fat, with large connective tissue content, old and tough skin, and the quality is worse than that of the front elbow, so the elbow made is not very chewy. For pork elbow meat, you can cut off the fat to make lard or make meatballs.

The pig's front elbow can't be cut directly along the joint with a knife, but the bone can only be cut off from the middle, so the bone section is not smooth; The pig's back elbow can be cut off directly along the joint with a knife, so the bone section is complete and smooth.

Not only does the back elbow look bigger, but the skin is thicker than the front elbow, and the fat and thin are more obvious. When buying, if you find that the skin of a pig elbow is thicker, it is probably the back elbow, so when buying a pig elbow, you can't just choose the big one. In addition, a normal pig elbow is about 0.8 kg to 1.2 kg. If it is too big, it is easy to be bleached. This must be noted.

This was left by hanging pigs during slaughter. This is the most obvious difference between pig's front elbow and back elbow. There is no hole in the front elbow where the hook can be seen.