Pork cut: where it is, price, recipes
Jowl
Cut wider than the French cheek, taking the muscle and fat of the jaw together. The South cures and smokes it into jowl bacon, served on New Year's Day with black-eyed peas for luck.
- Smoked
- Pan-seared
- Braised
$5/ lb
- In French
- Jowl (joue américaine)
- French cuts
- Joue de porc
- 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
- 4/5
- Price
- $5 / lb ·
- Actual size
- ~15 cm
