Pork cut: where it is, price, recipes
Loin
The whole back in one run, from shoulder to ham. Where France separates the rack, the center loin and the sirloin end, American butchers cut chops, roasts and Canadian bacon from the same block.
- Roasted
- Grilled
- Pan-seared
$7/ lb
- In French
- Loin (longe américaine)
- French cuts
- Côtes premières (carré), Côtes filet, Longe / filet, Pointe de filet
- Where it sits
- Loin. A pig of well over 200 pounds yields just two tenderloins of about a pound each.
- Tenderness
- 4/5
- Flavor
- 3/5
- Marbling
- 2/5
- Price
- $7 / lb ·
- Actual size
- ~60 cm
