To not understand pulled pork

[NinjaExodus]

Admittedly I haven't eaten much of it.

But when I have it's already cold; surely it's in the format that is designed to go cold the quickest which is really not very nice in a burger or a roll.

What's the attraction?

I don't actually eat meat anymore but isnt it just a way of making cheap meat taste nicer by using loads of sauce to moisten it and 'pulling' it to increase the surface area sauce sticks to?

I recommend trying it hot!

I love pulled pork, and also the 15-hour process of making it - very satisfying.

I always think of pulled pork as food that has been messed about with. The same goes for mushy peas.

I 'get' food.. but I agree.. I cannot for the life of me fathom pulled pork.

I'm not a big pulled-pork person, but it really is all about the sauce. You need a sauce that's right for you, whether that's on the sweeter or the tangier end of the scale. A good-quality bun helps, too.

Huh?! I just think of it as a joint that's fall apart tender. No need to baste, etc whilst it's slow cooking. We don't stick lots of sauce on it. Leftovers can easily be used for lots of different things.

Proper slow cooked pulled pork is devine, just like briskit.

The UK is just trying to catch up to the US, there is a reason why it's popular but there isn't many restaurants doing it right at the minute beacause the time needed is not cost worthy.

Even cold you need the proper hot sauce and coleslaw combo, until you have eaten a good one you won't get it, even then it is personal preference. But overall YABU

Oh I've only served it hot. Perhaps its that people are doing mass catering with it rather than just for a one family meal?

Pork is often dry unless its cooked slowly in a way to keep lots of moisture in it. Pulled pork is just a very popular way of doing that. Round Christmas time it'll be all about the slow cooked hams.

Are you ok with ribs or are they equally not your thing/too messed with?

Overly sugary, fatty and then it's actually dry. Not for me.

@3scape

Overly sugary, fatty and then it's actually dry. Not for me.

Then it's been done wrongly!

@3scape

Overly sugary, fatty and then it's actually dry. Not for me.

You've only had shit pulled pork, clearly.

@MargosKaftan

Oh I've only served it hot. Perhaps its that people are doing mass catering with it rather than just for a one family meal?

Pork is often dry unless its cooked slowly in a way to keep lots of moisture in it. Pulled pork is just a very popular way of doing that. Round Christmas time it'll be all about the slow cooked hams.

Are you ok with ribs or are they equally not your thing/too messed with?

I've never cooked it at home. Only had it in restaurants and it is cold by the time the waitress has served it to the table.

@FlumpsAreShit

I don't actually eat meat anymore but isnt it just a way of making cheap meat taste nicer by using loads of sauce to moisten it and 'pulling' it to increase the surface area sauce sticks to?

Yep Cheap meat that unless it was cooked very slowly and slathered in sauce would be inedible. It's a staple in boarding school canteens, and mass catering places. I can eat it, but I'd prefer something else.

Or waiter! Jeez check my sexism, I'm sorry for that I just remember one particularly disappointing 'pulled pork burger' that involved a really lovely waitress who gave me a free glass of wine for my birthday and a gopping luke warm pulled pork monstrosity.

What kind of restaurants are you eating in?

@NinjaExodus

Or waiter! Jeez check my sexism, I'm sorry for that I just remember one particularly disappointing 'pulled pork burger' that involved a really lovely waitress who gave me a free glass of wine for my birthday and a gopping luke warm pulled pork monstrosity.

Pork shoulder cooked low and slow for a few hours with bbq sauce on (cover with foil) is lovely but we eat it hot. Its nice the next day reheated in the microwave and used as a filling in a roll with coleslaw too

If it's served cold in a restaurant, send it back

@violetbunny

What kind of restaurants are you eating in?

It was a steak house called Bar and Block. What other details do you need?

I like pulled pork but only when it’s dry 😂 I don’t like any sauce on it, especially BBQ

@ShuddaBeenMe

If it's served cold in a restaurant, send it back

It was warm when it arrived and just lost heat almost immediately as I cut the enormous burger up due to the nature of the the shredding? the pulling? It doesn't retain heat that chopped up weird stuff.

@ShuddaBeenMe

If it's served cold in a restaurant, send it back

It wasn't served cold. See later posts. Thank you for your confused face, though, I liked it.

I can’t stand it, I find it way too sweet and the bits all stick in my back teeth

I am hoping it will go the way of salted caramel and fade in to obscurity as I feel like it was everywhere in about 2014

I honestly wouldn’t order it in a restaurant other than a meat-centric or BBQ specialist place. I do make a fairly awesome one myself and the leftovers are spectacular- particularly in a toastie with cheddar cheese and thinly sliced red onion.

There is a fine balance on the amount of sauce. I don’t like too much so that’s it’s sloppy or too little so it’s dry. Goldilocks’ pulled pork! 😄

I don't actually eat meat anymore but isnt it just a way of making cheap meat taste nicer by using loads of sauce to moisten it and 'pulling' it to increase the surface area sauce sticks to?

No, I am sure you add some condiment to your vegetarian dishes but it's a way of using the animal and understanding that certain cuts requires more attention, a well done slow cooked pork butt can in the right circumstances be just as devine as wagu steak.

It wasn't served cold. See later posts.

OP
But when I have it's already cold;

another post about it being cold...

Your the type who warms up a sunday dinner in a microwave because it isn't hot enough..