How to choose front elbow and back elbow when buying pork knuckle?

This part of the <> pig is the most fragrant, containing more protein, especially containing a large amount of collagen, which is generally cooked with skin, and the elbow is soft and rotten, the taste is mellow and not fatty, and it is very delicious. Dishes made with pork knuckle are many people's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

The finale dish means that the fortune is in hand, and the fat house is run, indicating the fat pig arch and sending blessings to the home, and the picture is auspicious.

There are many ways to make elbows, which are suitable for braised dishes, cold dressing, stewing, marinating, sauce, simmering and other methods. Such as: Dongpo elbow.

Braised elbow, grilled elbow, sauce elbow, red braised elbow, garlic elbow, and other dishes are all made with pork knuckle, which is a must-have dish for many families on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Everyone knows that pork knuckle is divided into front and back, although they are both pork knuckles, but there is a considerable difference between the two, so which is the front and rear elbow of the pig? Once you buy the wrong one, the taste will be quite poor, which is better, the front elbow or the back elbow of the pig? Don't buy the wrong pork knuckle for the Chinese New Year, it's a waste of ingredients and money.

Today I will teach you to distinguish the front elbow and the back elbow, and you will not buy the wrong one in the future.

【Pork elbow】The anterior elbow is superior to the posterior elbow, the anterior elbow is larger than the hind elbow, with more lean flesh and less fat, connective tissue.

It is small, and the skin is thin, so it is not greasy to eat at all. There are fewer bones than the back elbow, the weight of the bone accounts for a smaller proportion of the weight of the elbow, and the ** of the front elbow is also higher than that of the back elbow.

【Pork hind elbow】The connective tissue of the hind elbow is more abundant than that of the anterior elbow, with 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 transparent hole for hooking, and the front elbow does not have a transparent hole for hooking.

The back elbow also has a bulge pack, the front elbow does not. The bone weight of the hind elbow accounts for a large portion of the weight of the hind elbow.

Tips: Generally, chefs and people who know how to cook generally rush to buy pork elbows, which have more meat in the front elbows and more bones in the back elbows. If you like to eat lean meat, buy the front elbow. If you like to eat a lot of tendons, buy a back elbow. I learned to recognize the front and back elbows and buy according to my personal needs.

First, we first observe whether the bones on the pig's elbow are cut off, second, we need to look at the size of the pig's front elbow and back elbow, and third, there will be an obvious hook hole on the pig's back elbow.

Looking at the size, the front elbow is generally smaller than the back elbow.

Second, looking at the traces, there is generally a hole in the back elbow that has been hung by a hook. And the back elbow has a bulge, the front elbow does not.

The hypertrophy is the foreelbow with less bone mass and more flesh. The skinny is the hind elbow, which is more lean but smaller. Back elbow. Also known as hind hooves. Because the connective tissue is more abundant than the anterior elbow, the skin is old and tough, and the quality is worse than that of the anterior elbow.

In general, the front elbow will be larger than the back elbow, and the front elbow has more meat, and the back elbow is larger than the head.

The front elbow is not as large as the back elbow, and the back elbow usually has a trace of a hole that has been hung by a hook.

If you want to buy a good pork knuckle, first of all, when buying pork knuckle, you must choose according to the color and part of the pork knuckle.

First of all, we should observe the color and freshness of the pork knuckle, if the color is ruddy and there is no obvious water filling state, this time it means that the meat quality is very good, and the second is to buy fat and thin elbows.

We have to choose according to the shape, generally according to the thickness of the pork knuckle bone, you can look at the detailed characteristics of the pork knuckle and its wound to judge.