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Spent three hours trying to get a clean cut on a weirdly shaped pork shoulder
Had this big, oddly shaped pork shoulder come in from a local farm last week. The bone structure was just... off. Not like the usual ones I get. I kept trying to follow my normal lines, but the knife kept catching on what felt like extra cartilage or a weird joint. I must have sharpened my boning knife twice, thinking it was the edge. Finally, I stopped, took a step back, and just felt around the whole thing for like ten minutes. Turns out, the shoulder blade was fused at a different angle, almost like it was from an older hog. Once I figured that out and changed my approach, it took maybe fifteen minutes to break it down clean. Have any of you run into animals with strange bone structure from small farms? How do you handle it without wasting a bunch of time?
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nathan_webb12d ago
I mean, is a weirdly shaped pork shoulder really that deep though? You just spent time feeling it out and figured it out eventually, so it seems like a non-issue in the end. Feels like a lot of fuss over something that turned out fine with a little patience.
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margaret_flores172mo ago
Yeah, that "weird joint" feeling is the worst, I once spent an hour on a lamb shoulder with a totally extra bone ridge.
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