The Spring Festival is coming. During the Spring Festival, everyone will be ready to buy some new year's goods. Pork is essential. Pig's elbow is a pig's calf, also called hoof. This part of the pig is the most fragrant and contains more protein, especially protein, which contains a lot of collagen. Usually boiled with skin, the elbow is soft and rotten, mellow and not greasy, and very delicious. The dishes cooked with pork elbows are the finale of many people's New Year's Eve dinners, which means that they can get rich and get rich, and the fat house is moist, which indicates that the fat pig will arch the ground and send happiness home.
There are many ways to make elbows, which are suitable for braising, cold salad, stewing, marinating, sauce and simmering. For example, Dongpo elbow, braised elbow, roasted elbow, sauce elbow, braised elbow, garlic elbow and other dishes are all made of pig elbow and are essential dishes for many families' New Year's Eve.
As we all know, there are two kinds of pig elbows. Although they are all pig elbows, there is a considerable difference between them. So which one is delicious? Once you buy it wrong, it will taste quite bad. Which is better, the front elbow or the back elbow of a pig? Don't make the mistake of buying pig elbows during the Spring Festival, which wastes both ingredients and money. Today, I will teach you to skillfully divide the front elbow and the back elbow, so you won't buy it wrong in the future.
The front elbow of a pig is better than the back elbow. The front elbow is bigger than the back elbow, with more lean meat, less fat, less connective tissue and thin skin, which is not greasy at all. There are fewer bones than the back elbow, and the weight of bones accounts for less in the weight of elbow, and the price of front elbow is also higher than that of back elbow height.
Compared with the front elbow, the pig's back elbow has more connective tissue, less lean meat, more fat, old and tough skin and thicker bones. The quality is worse than the front elbow. The back elbow is very easy to identify. The back elbow has a through hole for the hook, but the front elbow has no through hole for the hook. The back elbow is raised, but the front elbow is not. The bone weight of the back elbow accounts for a large proportion in the weight of the back elbow.
Tip: Generally, chefs and people who can cook scramble to buy pig's elbow, which has more meat and more bones at the back. I like to eat lean meat and buy front elbows. I like to eat too much muscle and buy a back elbow. Learn to understand the front and rear elbows and buy according to personal needs.