The pig's front hoof has more meat and less bones, while the pig's back hoof has less meat and more bones. The difference in meat and bone distribution of pig's trotters also provides a great basis for us to buy front hoofs or back hoofs. If you plan to eat meat, you can consider the front hoof. If it's stew, the hind hoof is definitely better.
2 How to choose trotters 1? Observe that the trotters with normal color should be light yellow, so be vigilant when you see clean trotters. However, pig's trotters soaked in liquid medicine are not all white, and some are red.
2. Touch the pig's trotters whose surface has been soaked in the medicine, and it feels sticky. If you haven't soaked it, you won't feel this sticky. Gently press a button on the pig's trotters with your hand, and the soaked pig's trotters feel hard, while those that have not been soaked feel softer.
3. Smell the pig's trotters soaked in the smell and you can smell a faint potion, sometimes this potion will cover up the fishy smell of pork itself. You can't smell the medicine if you haven't soaked it.
4. Look at the size of the soaked pig's trotters, which are generally larger than those that have not been soaked. When buying pig's trotters, you can't just pick them. A normal pig's trotters is about eight taels to a catty. If it is too big, it must be completely bleached.