The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

flank that keep the animal breathing. Slow-twitch muscle is characterized by robust flavor and a very tough ...

shoulder at the highest oven temperature it can take without burning the skin? Not so fast. Temperature has othe ...

Turns out that at a higher temperature, a pork shoulder loses about 8 percent more juices t ...

temperature, due to the muscle fibers contracting and squeezing out their contents. Eating the meat ...

these things happen at about the same time. By the time the connective tissue has broken down, you’ve ...

Pork cooked at a steady temperature has skin that’s crisp but smooth, with little surface area. See how, d ...

principle behind, say, scratching up the surface of potatoes before roasting them to get them extra-cris ...

Have you ever seen anything so beautiful? I generally prefer my meat relatively unadorned—good meat, s ...

allow dinners to pick and pull at it with their fingers, offering a few sauces to work with ...

NO BUTTS ABOUT IT You may have seen large cuts of pork in the supermarket labeled “pork butt ...

inside, despite the fact that it actually came from the shoulder of the hog. To this day, the term ...

ULTRA-CRISP SLOW- ROASTED PORK SHOULDER This recipe is designed for bone-in, skin-on pork shoulder and produces ...

SERVES 8 TO 12 1 whole bone-in, skin-on pork shoulder, 8 to 12 pounds Kosher salt and freshly ground bl ...

CROWN ROAST OF PORK So it’s holiday time again, and your little sister has adopted a pet calf, so beef’s ...

A crown roast is nothing more than one or two regular bone-in pork loin roasts (that’s th ...

splay out. However, by doing this, you end up increasing the surface area of the pork, which can cause i ...

which is what I like my pork cooked to) while simultaneously crisping the exterior. Luckily, we’ve ...

like me? Go ahead and put cute little paper hats over the ends of the bones before serving to cover ...

CROWN ROAST OF PORK NOTE: Ask the butcher for a crown roast at least a day or two in advance. Aim for arou ...

SERVES 10 TO 16 1 crown roast of pork, 6 to 10 pounds (12 to 20 chops; see Note above) Kosher salt an ...