If you´ve decided to make one of your favorite pork loin recipes for dinner tonight, you are going to want to make sure you find the perfect piece. Read on to help you select the optimal piece of pork loin available.
1- Choose fresh pork loin if possible. Fresh meat is always better than frozen, and then you don´t have to worry about defrosting it. If you have to buy a frozen one, be sure to check the ingredients. Often time, frozen ones have salt and other additives added.
2- Look for a pork loin that is not full of fat. Fat on the outside is fine, because you can easily trim it. However, if it looks like there is fat throughout, look for another piece. Pork loin is lean, and it is better to find it without fat.
3- A boneless pork loin is easier to cook, and most pork loin recipes call for boneless pork loin. You can buy one with bone in, and use it in recipes that call for boneless, but I don´t recommend it. If you do cook one with the bone, you may want to keep the bone and use it for a pork loin soup the following day.
4- You will need about 300 g per person eating, and remember it is always better to have too much than too little. Leftovers are always a pleasure, and sliced left-over pork loin makes for great sandwiches!
5- Make sure to select a cut that does not look dried out on the edges. If possible, it should be meat that was prepared that very day.
Follow these five steps, and all you´ll have to do then is pick the one you think looks the best. Other things such as organic/non-organic, local, etc. are all up to you. Generally, local is better, but not in all cases. Select the one you think is best, and if you like it, you know you can continue to buy that brand! There are tons of amazing pork loin recipes, so you´ll have plenty of opportunities to try different pieces of pork loin.
