A pork chop from Grandma's times...

[Retired Spook]

What a delicious piece of pork - a Porterhouse pork chop from a nearby farm. 16.4-ounces for $22.96 and worth every penny. I haven't tasted pork this good since I was a kid at Grandma's, may she rest in peace.

Simple salt, pepper and garlic powder.

In the pan

On the plate

Moist, tender, and taste fantastic - the way a pork chop should be!

 

[bauchjw]

Awesome looking chop! Perfect!

 

[chopsaw]

Nice lookin chop . When I saw the title " Pork chop from Grandma's time " I figured you took it to 180 degrees internal .

 

[Retired Spook]

Nice lookin chop . When I saw the title " Pork chop from Grandma's time " I figured you took it to 180 degrees internal .

My Grandma knew how to cook pork - very slightly pink in the middle... It doesn't show well in the photo but I was close - next time I would pull it out of the pan a few minutes sooner!

Nevertheless, it was awesome. Fantastic pork chop.

 

[TNJAKE]

Good looking chop

 

[tx smoker]

Wow!! I will unabashedly say that's about the best looking pork chop I have ever seen. Absolute pork perfection on a plate. Beautiful job.

Robert

 

[Retired Spook]

Wow!! I will unabashedly say that's about the best looking pork chop I have ever seen. Absolute pork perfection on a plate. Beautiful job.

Robert

Thank you sir - that one really made me smile!

 

[tx smoker]

Thank you sir - that one really made me smile!

More than welcome and much deserved. Smiling is good from my standpoint and it's always nice to bring a smile to a person's face, especially by telling the truth

Robert

 

[yankee2bbq]

Great job Spook!
Grandma would be proud!

 

[Retired Spook]

Great job Spook!
Grandma would be proud!

Thank you Justin! Another one that made me smile! I really miss her.

 

[HalfSmoked]

Yup grandmas know how to cook. Great looking chop.

Warren

 

[jcam222]

That is one BEAUTIFUL chop! I absolutely love a good juicy pork chop. My grandma turned out some amazing chops too. I think it was back before they started breeding pork to be the other white meat. I imagine at the price / lbs this may have been a heritage breed pig?

 

[HalfSmoked]

Thanks for the like Retired Spook I appreciated it.

Warren

 

[Retired Spook]

That is one BEAUTIFUL chop! I absolutely love a good juicy pork chop. My grandma turned out some amazing chops too. I think it was back before they started breeding pork to be the other white meat. I imagine at the price / lbs this may have been a heritage breed pig?

It is a cross of Heritage Mangalitsa and old line Duroc breeds; the taste was amazing.

Corporation food has turned pork into tasteless, leather-like, mass-produced, poisoned old tire treads - I do not know how anyone can eat it. I haven't been able to eat a corporation pork chop in 25-years (the last time I bought a whole hog from a natural farm in Dewey, AZ that is no longer in business, of course...). I have smoked corporate ribs here-and-there but after finding this farm, absolutely no more. I will happily wait and save my pennies and buy pork from this farm. I can't wait to smoke one of their racks (not sold on website but via email said I could get one).

Check em out: https://www.belleviefarm.com/farm

 

[Brokenhandle]

Looks delicious! Most of my grandparents were gone before I was born or old enough to know them but got some good times in with my wife's grandma's...special memories for sure!

Ryan

 

[Retired Spook]

Looks delicious! Most of my grandparents were gone before I was born or old enough to know them but got some good times in with my wife's grandma's...special memories for sure!

Ryan

When I was young my Grandmother seemed a little tough at times - but she was always very good to me and man could she cook. Everyone in the family still comments how good her cooking was.

Funny thing, she was hard on some people in my family, but in hindsight, she was 100% right.

One of the few bright lights in my young life - I cried like a 5-year old when she died. That was 30-years ago...

 

[Fueling Around]

Very Nice.
Grandma was a good cook in my younger days but she taught my mother that chops were fried to leather. Same as my wife's mother & grandmother.
Interesting thought is the commercial stuff tastes better to me fried to death.

 

[Retired Spook]

Very Nice.
Grandma was a good cook in my younger days but she taught my mother that chops were fried to leather. Same as my wife's mother & grandmother.
Interesting thought is the commercial stuff tastes better to me fried to death.

I think that back in the olden days people were very scared of getting sick from under-cooked pork - I forgot what they used to call it? Trichinosis or something like that??? I remember the old folks talking about it but I never got sick from Grandma's pork and that's all I know about it.

I am no expert but I know that it is bad ju-ju to eat raw pork - my understanding is that 145-degrees is safe, and that means very slightly pink, and nicely moist in the middle.

Nevertheless you reminded me of a breaded and fried pork chop I did try a few years ago at a local restaurant - well done and they were thin - but I actually ate both of them and they weren't all that bad in a different kind of way.

My brain is fading in my old age

 

[Fueling Around]

I try to take my pork sausage to 140°'s to pasteurize. It leaves a little pink. I like it, wife does not.

What were we posting? I forget.

 

[Retired Spook]

I try to take my pork sausage to 140°'s to pasteurize. It leaves a little pink. I like it, wife does not.

What were we posting? I forget.

Grandmas!