chops - what's the fucking point?
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Eat Quorn and the 'chicken' soya bits from Pot Noodles. Much more convenient for you, and you probably won't taste the difference - anyone who thinks that a lamb roasting joint matches chops for flavour either can't cook or has the tastebuds of a dead ashtray.
I aint eating meat substitute shit. vegetarians piss me right off.
I'm not discussing the flavour, I'm discussing the fact that chops are shit because at least half the thing is bits of shit you don't eat unless you are a complete fucking freak.
Well, don't buy them then. But to claim that a nice 'cut of lamb' is an adequate replacement is just plain wrongness and delusion. How do you get that lovely grilled crispiness and smokiness?
And besides, I think I'd change your butcher if I were you. When I finish a chop there's nothing apart from a sliver of bone left - it's impossible not to gnaw off every tasty morsel. Are you cooking them right or buying them from value McIceland?
And besides, I think I'd change your butcher if I were you. When I finish a chop there's nothing apart from a sliver of bone left - it's impossible not to gnaw off every tasty morsel. Are you cooking them right or buying them from value McIceland?
sorry, but I'm not inclined to shove my gob fulla bits of animal fat. that's just fucking disgusting and theres no reason to eat it. at all.
Fat equals the flavour to a large degree though. What's the point of eating meat if you can't accept that some fat is absolutely necessary to flavour and moistness? And, if done well (like the tandoor chops mentioned by Xanadu earlier) crispy fat on a chop is an integral part of the experience.
It's like people who only eat chicken breasts because they can't take the sight of bone, fat, and any veins. They therefore end up eating the driest more flavourless part of the bird possible - you may as well eat vitamin fortified cardboard extruded into a meaty shape. You're eating an animal - deal with it and stop being so damn precious about a bit of fat.
It's like people who only eat chicken breasts because they can't take the sight of bone, fat, and any veins. They therefore end up eating the driest more flavourless part of the bird possible - you may as well eat vitamin fortified cardboard extruded into a meaty shape. You're eating an animal - deal with it and stop being so damn precious about a bit of fat.
Termite Man
zombie flesh eater
mrsfran
Well-Known Member
That's not completely true. You can do lovely things with a breast that it would be hard to do with a thigh or drumstick - chicken kiev, for example.
That's perhaps true, but the Kieving process (proper technical term that) is all about trying to add moistness and extra flavour to a cut with a tendency to dryness. See also ballotine and the like. I'm not opposed to the odd chicken breast or two for convenience and specific uses, but the vast popularity of blubbery intensively raised breasts is slightly mystifying. It's often meat for people who don't really like meat.
You don't need to fuck around with glorious chops really - the layer of fat and the bone give them their own integral lubrication system. Hence their charm and cost.
You don't need to fuck around with glorious chops really - the layer of fat and the bone give them their own integral lubrication system. Hence their charm and cost.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
The fat on them, esp pork chops is among the finest tastes known to man
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
In the Elche area of Spain (shoemaking area), they eat kid chops which are even more teeny. Kid for shoes and kid for dinner.
If your lamb leg steaks have no flavour, I suggest you buy your meat from elsewhere. The butcher I used to go to in Leamington Spa sold boneless leg steaks that were fucking mind-blowing - full of flavour and BIG enough to satisfy my appetite. I've never really been able to find lamb chops with enough meat on them to satisfy me.
I suppose I just take exception to the portion sizing usually found in most lamb chop dishes.
http://www.steffensdinners.com/files/images/lamb-chops-wilted-watercress.jpg
I'd love to eat this, if there was 10 times as much meat/fat on there.
kained&able
Here for the football.
yep chops are fairly shit.
Not enough meat on em.
They do look quite good on a plate though.
dave
Not enough meat on em.
They do look quite good on a plate though.
dave
zenie
>^^<
Why can't you just have several if there's not enough meat per chop?
Lamb ribs are the finest bit of lamb imo and they has the bone!
The fat gives it flavour, you don't need to eat the fat, you can cut if off, it helps the flavour the meat and keep it moist while cooking.
I like meat on the bone though....
Eh? I didn't say anything like that. But the point remains that if you took the leg steaks and chops from the same animal then the chops would still be considerably more tasty and sinfully good. If you tried lamb steaks in place of the chops in the tandoor at Tayyabs, Mirch or Lahore Kebab House then they wouldn't work nearly as well - less moist, less of that glorious gnawable sweet meat near the bone, less of that wonderful crispy fat. You'd be sadly disappointed if they replaced them with dryer leg steaks and you know it.
I take your point about the occasional portion size issue, but this is England after all. Eat more chops then, not trade down to a less tasty compromise. It's precisely because they've got that fat and bone content that makes them special and to be valued
Yep
I only buy them about once a year, but I do love a well grilled lamb chop. Mmmm sizzly melty lambikins fat
madzone
Physically unfavourable
chops from a baby lamb are very different than chops from an old lamb
Particularly because it would be mutton.
I only buy them about once a year, but I do love a well grilled lamb chop. Mmmm sizzly melty lambikins fat
yes on good quality baby-lamb fat
madzone
Physically unfavourable
I'm not that keen, too much fiddling about. We eat them because my butcher seems to have imagination failure when it comes to cutting up the meat.Yep
I only buy them about once a year, but I do love a well grilled lamb chop. Mmmm sizzly melty lambikins fat
well almost no one eats lamb over here...its beef, pork, chicken - and in that order
fuck if i could even find a butcher with half-way decent baby lamb.
madzone
Physically unfavourable
What do you mean by baby lamb?
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
Wrong.baby lamb is one yr old or less
Lamb is under 1 year old.
When it reaches a year it is called hogget.
There is no such thing as "baby lamb". Lamb is, by definition, baby.
