Pork cut: where it is, price, recipes
Pork shoulder blade
The part of the shoulder that carries the blade bone, sold bone-in or boneless. In Alsace it is salted and smoked, then simmered slowly on a bed of sauerkraut or lentils, a close cousin of a smoked shoulder roast.
- Boiled
- Braised
- Smoked
$5/ lb
- In French
- Palette
- US side
- Boston butt
- Where it sits
- Shoulder. The Boston butt has nothing to do with the rear: it is the top of the shoulder, named after a barrel.
- Tenderness
- 2/5
- Flavor
- 4/5
- Marbling
- 3/5
- Price
- $5 / lb ·
- Actual size
- ~30 cm
