Cooking with Chippie: Pork Scratchings

[Jonny69]

There is another method of making them, which is currently in progress. Involves cutting up the rind, salting, and leaving for three days, then blasting for an hour in a really hot oven, rather than the long slow cook to dry them. Will report back in a few days with the result of the second method....

I usually use the skin off the pork belly when I've salted my own bacon. It'll have had 2 days salting with the bacon and a week or so in the fridge drying down on the bacon itself. It gets to the point where it's a bit too tough to slice through, so I whip it off the meat, chop it up and fry it into scratchings. Delish.

 

[Gadge]

yum yum, are they good for you?

 

[Wizzfizz]

yum yum, are they good for you?

With all that salt and fat I'd say no, they aren't good for you.

 

[MisChief]

I love crackling/the look of these pork scratchings, but cannot stand the thought of black pudding. Bleurgh. Pub pork scratchings are usually pretty vom, and I'll only buy them if:

-There are no Cheese Moments
-There are no Scampi Fries

Omg I love Cheese Moments! But I can't find them anywhere now, can only find Scampi Fries

 

[lookitsjonno]

wow i'm so going to try this.

 

[Deadbeat]

yum yum, are they good for you?

You will need:

Pork Rind
Salt
A knife
An oven

 

[JAYJT29]

Nice one i love black pudding too will try this next weekend

Jay

 

[The Dread Pirate]

Black Pudding is food fit for kings!

Agreed!

 

[jamief]

Scratching haters, a quick question - what's your stance on black pudding? Do you avoid that, too?

Depends if you're talking about that horrible fatty mess you English eat, or real Scottish black pudding...

 

[Cupra]

they do look fantastic, i dont like the taste of them as i make it quite often for my daughter as its one of the very few things she eats

 

[Abraham]

I may well give this a go, I love crackling but can't stand scratchings from a packet, some of these fresh would be lovely though.

 

[platypus]

We've had a lack of 'Cooking With' threads recently, this is awesome.

Top job, at that price I absolutely have to try my own.

 

[Aedus]

Rank.

 

[Matallica]

Awesome, iv got to try

 

[Knubje]

*salivates*

I love pork scratchings. With every scratching I feel a man point being added to my tally and my arteries crying out in pain!

 

[platypus]

Haha score! The other half has just picked up a kilo of pork rind from the butchers...for free. He was butchering two pigs today and gave it to her .

 

[utajoker]

 

[godinman]

I may have to try this. And black pudding is brilliant. But only for REAL men.