Pork Primals — Meat Atlas

On a pig, where the fat sits decides everything — which is why the belly became bacon and samgyeopsal on opposite sides of the world, and why the same loin is a schnitzel here and a tonkatsu there.

Pork Primals TOOL-LIFES / MEAT ATLAS

FIG. 2 — SUS DOMESTICUS / PRIMAL DIVISIONtool-lifes.com/meat

Cuts in this chart

→Jowl →Shoulder →Picnic shoulder →Loin →Tenderloin →Belly →Leg →Hock & trotter

Compare cuts

→Jowl vs Shoulder →Jowl vs Belly →Jowl vs Loin →Shoulder vs Picnic shoulder →Shoulder vs Leg →Picnic shoulder vs Hock & trotter →Picnic shoulder vs Leg →Loin vs Tenderloin →Loin vs Belly →Shoulder vs Loin →Jowl vs Tenderloin →Tenderloin vs Leg

Tools for this meat

→Find a cut by cooking →Calories & protein →Butcher names →What should I buy?→Doneness by animal →Cut swaps

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