Hi everyone welcome back to my kitchen today, we're going to go over the difference between a pork loin and a pork tenderloin
Because I think some of you might be a little bit confused, and they are completely different
So let's go see what these are all about
I
Do want to say this video is sponsored by go wise
The maker of the pressure cooker that I'm going to feature today in this video
It's come to my attention that there are a lot of you out there when I make a pork tenderloin
You you think that it's something that it isn't and so I felt like it might be a great idea to go over the difference
Between what I call a pork tenderloin, which is this over here and a pork loin roast?
so
the people at the pork Council
Have a lovely diagram, and they both come from the same place
this pork tenderloin
Actually comes from underneath this pork loin on
The the pig so it's the the loin comes from the back of the pig the upper back
toward the rear
It's it's along the backbone yes
Exactly like when you get a chicken breast and you have that little chicken tender underneath it
That's this a similar
Situation here a pork loin when it's whole is between
7 and 10 pounds I buy them whole they come in a cryovac package and
This is one half of
an eight almost nine pound
pork loin roast
I'm gonna be using this in a pressure cooker recipe today
But I thought while I was in my freezer
I'm gonna go ahead and take a pork tenderloin out this comes in a long cryovac package as well
Usually it comes with two pieces, so this is two pork tenderloins, so
If you look at this loin this would have been you can see this would have been the place here
Where would be up against the back this tenderloin?
Obviously this isn't coming from the same
Animal, but on the animal the Tenderloin would be directly underneath the loin
And then they package these separately they are both very lean
They're both as lean as a chicken breast
They're both very very versatile
This cut I'm gonna be using in a in a green chili stew, so I'm gonna cut it up
I'm gonna take most of the fat off of it, and then I'm gonna make it into cubes, but you can easily
Roast this and generally this is what I make like for New Year's Day. I'll pop this in the oven
I'll season it up and I will roast it 20 minutes per pound and
Boom you have a beautiful pork roast you can also cook this in a slow cooker a very similar way
and you will have a delicious pork roast you can roast this and
Shred it, but you do have to roast it a long time
I don't really recommend this cut of meat
For pulled pork because it just doesn't have enough fat in it it also doesn't have enough connective tissue in it
for it to break down and
shred beautifully and have that anxiousness
pork tenderloin
I love to use on a weeknight for a quick roast meal
Because this cooks very quickly I can season this up any way I want with a rub I can both barbecue sauce I can put
poison sauce and make an Asian Flair I can put
apricot jam and chipotle peppers on this I can make any
Ethnic flavor that I want on a pork tenderloin pop it in the oven on this pan for half an hour and dinner is done
You want to make sure that you cook your pork to?
160 degrees and then give it about 20 minutes to rest because your will have carryover cooking up to
165 it is perfectly acceptable
For your pork to be very so slightly pink in the center because we have much cleaner
Farming practices now and the meat is not really going to be susceptible to trichinosis
Because we don't feed the pigs trash any longer so that is the difference between a pork loin roast and a pork tenderloin
The other thing I wanted to mention was on the pork loin
You don't have to just cut it into roast you can butterfly this inch pork chops
Really beautiful boneless pork chops as thin you can cut them super thin so that they're easy to pan fry quick
you can cut them thick and butterfly them, so they're really large these pieces of me are super versatile and
Really, the only thing limiting you in their preparation is your imagination and almost every ethnicity
Uses pork in its in its cuisine
There are some that do not for religious purposes, but pork is a really versatile meat
It's very affordable for instance where I live I can pick up this package of pork tenderloin for
Less than six dollars a lot of times I can get them buy one get one free
for a package of two and the pork loin roast I
Can usually get for a dollar twenty nine to a dollar sixty-nine a pound and that's when I buy two or three?
Whole Moines and I'll usually cut them in three this one. I cut in half
I think because I thought maybe I would go ahead and cut it into some chops
And I cut it in half so I could have a larger roast for New Year's Day
But in any case that's the difference. I hope this was helpful information
I hope you learned something and I hope it kind of clears up that mystery about
the difference between a pork loin and a pork tenderloin
So I hope you move forward in life use the information. I hope you love it and until next time. I'll see ya