Pork cut: where it is, price, recipes
Pork cheek
Two small, tight knots of muscle under the eye, about ten ounces each. Braised in wine or cider it cuts with a spoon; salted and air-dried, the very same cheek becomes guanciale, the fat real carbonara is built on.
- Braised
- Stewed
$7/ lb
- In French
- Joue de porc
- US side
- Jowl
- Around the world
- Guanciale (Italy)
- Where it sits
- Head. From snout to ears, nothing goes to waste: the whole head ends up as head cheese.
- Tenderness
- 2/5
- Flavor
- 5/5
- Marbling
- 3/5
- Price
- $7 / lb ·
- Actual size
- ~8 cm
