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Old 10-21-2015, 07:11 AM   #378
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Looks amazing man. So tell me what a pork belly tastes like? What is the texture? I am having a hard time imagining it.
That was a "few" minutes.

Well, it's basically uncured bacon, so it's pretty fatty. But it's that tender, super rich fat (I've heard it called "royal" fat, IIRC, but I can't seem to find that now). It's "porky," not bacony, though. It's melt-in-your mouth.

Finished under the broiler, it has a bit of a crispness to the exterior, but not a crunch like bacon. Some people prepare it with the skin on and fry it skin-side down to add some big-time crispness from the cracklin, but I don't like the skin (sometimes it just becomes tough and leathery, and I don't like dealing with it).
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