/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I wish I lived somewhere where people knew that pulled pork is smoked then fork-shredded, not simmered in barbecue sauce in a slow-cooker.
Without, please. Thank you.

Truly good pulled pork can stand on its own and needs no sauce - however, a sandwich of it can get a little dry in which case a slight application of sauce can serve as a binder and lubricant. But there's no need to be like the photo.

Honestly...pulled pork sandwiches are pretty low tier on the sandwich chart.

However I do love pulled pork with a vinegar-based spicy bbq sauce.

>>4187128
Making good pulled pork is as legitimate a cooking endeavor as any other. So how does putting it in sandwich form make for a low-tier sandwich?

>>4187117

Actually, the definition of pulled pork varies by culture and region. So deal with it.

>>4187129
It tastes better without the bread.

>>4187140
there's nothing that isn't better in sandwich form

BBQ Pork or Beef sandwich...with sauce...and coleslaw.

>>4187130
It's not pulled pork if it hasn't been pulled. Boiling it in Q sauce makes it fall apart of its own accord, no pulling required.
Slow-cooker method produces a product that I find to be similar to pulled pork only cosmetically. It lacks a smoke-y taste because it hasn't been smoked. It lacks a good texture because all the collagens have melted into the braising liquid. It lacks a full meaty flavour because the flavours have been boiled out into the braising liquid (similar to what happens when making a broth).

Again, if it hasn't been pulled, it can't be called 'pulled X.' That's like calling boiled chuck 'roast beef,' when it hasn't been roasted.

Cooked without. Sauce afterwards to taste.

>>4187220
Agreed. Restaurants do this shit all the time too.

With a light saucing, not goopy as hell like your OP pic. That's nasty, how could you even taste the pork?

>>4187235
This.

Would this work with lamb shoulder?

>>4187649
I'm not even American, just live here and fell in love with many examples of your better, though paradoxically lesser-known outside your borders, native dishes, pulled pork amongst them (country captain, burgoo and gumbo, as well, to name a few others).

What I want to know is what, if anything, does the US hold sacred in terms of its own food culture? Cheesesteaks have been so bastardised that people believe whiz to be the standard and pulled pork can be a pork shoulder boiled in barbecue sauce. Even barbecuing itself is screwed up, where smoking the meat is considering fancy or optional and not downright necessary. You guys really need something like PDO/PGI/TSG to protect the legacies of your good foods lest they all evaporate into the ether, replaced wholesale with Kraft ready meals and Hamburger Helper.

>>4187235
This. Too much sauce completely ruins an already average-tier sandwich.

>>4187811
With truly good pork you can taste the meat even through all that sauce.

>>4187982
Me too, we must be supertasters.

needs coleslaw on top then perfect

I usually make the pulled pork in a slow cooker, shred it, then add some bbq sauce. If people want more they can add more, I don't drown it in sauce like OP's pic.

>>4188626
I want to punch you to death.

Is that an overreaction?

>>4188984
It's not my fault that everyone on this board claims they can't taste meat with the addition of sauce. If I can taste meat just fine with a sauce then that must mean that I'm a supertaster.

I am going to slow cook pork in dr pepper, onion and chipotle for super bowl. I'm going to make a vinegar based sauce and coleslaw both from scratch. People will be able to make sliders. Any suggestions here on process or ingredients?

>>4187146
File Mignon is better inbettwen two slices of WOnder bread right? right??

>>4187807
Yeah, I see what you're saying, (especially with the cheesesteak, I still have no idea what makes a "real philly")

every BandG thread has gone to shit so I don't utter its name anymore, however, I think its hard to go wrong with it. I once made the G with a full pound of sausage and while it was like eating taco meat on bread, it still tasted ok.

But yeah, Band G is my favorite. I think the problem with American food is that the bastardization is so rampant that it is untraceable. So its more of a culture of "this is Nawlins Gumbo, this is Baton Reuge Gumbo."

Same with chicago vs. New York pizza.

>>4189200
>implying all sandwiches use wonderbread

never had a delicious tenderloin sandwich? maybe not better in all cases, but dear god that shit's delicious./

Dry rub pulled pork, moistened with home made BBQ sauce.
Y'all niggas wanna foodgasm?

>>4189206
A "real Philly cheesesteak" is a cheesesteak made using thinly sliced Delmonico steak meat. That's what gives it the savory, delicious flavor and the high price tag.

Seasoned but not sauced pork. Stack goes:

Bottom bun
Pulled pork
Generous spoonful of thick BBQ sauce
Coleslaw
Top bun

I like to put coleslaw on top of mine. The kind that's made with mayo.

>>4189159
Supertaster is not a real thing. Despite the name some asshole gave it, it isn't a superlative, it isn't having taste, but better. It's a handicap, like being colorblind.

"Supertasters" think everything tastes bitter and that nothing spicy is good. And yet these defective assholes, like you, think this somehow indicates you are better at consuming foods than mere mortals.

Fuck you and your made up superpower that isn't a thing. Go join the autistic "Indigo Children" and leave food to people who appreciate the finer things.

>>4189254
a real philly cheese steak uses processed garbage cheese-whiz as well. Of course we are smarter than that around here, amirite?

>>4187220
This.

It's supposed to be dry rubbed, or mopped, smoked pork shoulder, cooked on the bone, that is shredded, and maybe a little sauce as binder, local choice of sauce of course. You should be able to taste the meat! You're supposed to have a little bit of bark, and chunky whole stringy pieces, not threads. My other peeve if if it's not even pulled at all, but overchopped pulverized bit of pork someone turned into baby food with a cleaver.

None of you assholes knows anything about a real cheesesteak. Get back on subject.

>>4187807
>Cheesesteaks have been so bastardised that people believe whiz to be the standard
Actually, the trashy version is most traditional. Cheese Whiz was popular at the time the sandwich was created. People adored Velveeta and squeeze cheese too. They actually thought it was superior.

>>4189288
Hey let's be fair, fake cheese has a place in the world. It stays liquified longer than regular cheese that was placed ontop to melt from residual heat. I always prefer fake, runny cheese on fries and nachos to the shredded or sliced real cheese.

As far as cheesesteaks are concerned, it's a shit-for-you food, so the presence of fake cheese doesn't bother me at all. If anything, it improves the sodium laden, shit-for-you experience. At a fancy restaurant with a french dip or similar sandwich, I'd want real cheese, though.

>>4189295
>I always prefer fake, runny cheese
Why are you on /ck/?

>>4189322
Because this is the Internet cooking world's damp asshole, where no one has good taste by Michelin standards.

>>4187114

>ruining good meat by contaminating it with the presence of bread

>>4189272
As opposed to the kind that's made with...?

Also, all yall r dum.

>>4189378
Some are made with just oils and vinegars. Italian slaw, for example.

But fuck that, fatty white style for me.

>>4189365
The fuck is your problem with bread? On the front page right now, like 4 of the topics mention bread or someone in the thread mentions it in some fashion and you jump in with a comment about how horrible bread is. Nigga, people have been eating and surviving on bread for thousands of years. Making good bread is an art, and I bet you sure as shit couldn't do it.

>>4189385
Fuck this guy man

Meanwhile I have a big tub of slow-cooker "pulled' (not) pork that was made from PORK CHOPS. Absolutely no pork taste, just seasoning/sauce. Lame

>>4189378
Actually the norm is a BBQ sauced tart slaw that has no mayo. I'm like that other anon, I don't care for that, it's just boring and doesn't provide any yummy balance, just a bit of bitterness and texture. But, a creamy slaw? Sweet unctious, bits of celery seed and onion, delicious!

>>4189276
What does this have to do with my ability to taste meat with sauce? Everyone claims that they can't taste meat when a sauce is used and I can... either I'm obviously a supertaster or /ck/ is full of dramatic faggots that haven't even experienced what they're criticizing. Either way, I'm obviously better than you. That's not my opinion, that's a realization.

>>4189276
The word "supertaster" just implies stronger taste abilities, not that it's a GOOD thing.

I do think far too many things are intensely bitter that most people describe as sweet or flavorless. I love spicy things, though.

>>4189444
>That's not my opinion, that's a realization.
My opinion is that you have never had a good pulled pork sandwich in your life.