Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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We have a source for farm raised pork along with our grass-fed beef. While I was cooking up a big ham steak the other day I wondered if, because this is anti-biotic free and theoretically the animals are better taken care of and live in cleaner conditions, can it be eaten like beef?

Or do we still need to cook the crap out of it?

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Aaron B. · Answer 1 · 2011-04-25 21:04:21Z UTC

We know where our pork comes from too, and we cook it to about 140, which leaves it a little pink and very tender. A huge improvement over the usual dry, gray chops people eat. The idea of eating it really bloody rare just isn't appealing to me, for some reason.

As I understand it, trichinosis is extremely rare these days -- even in factory-farmed pigs, since it comes from eating other infected animals, which factory pigs would rarely have access to. I'm not aware of any reason to overcook pork today. If you're willing to eat it, you might as well eat it cooked to the doneness you want.

tartare · Answer 2 · 2011-04-25 20:58:22Z UTC

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Don't cook the ** out of your decent pork. you will make me cry. trichinosis is most commonly now found in bear meat. cook the heck out of your bear meat, or better yet, don't eat predators. pigs come across it from having eaten infected meat.

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have you ever had raw seasoned ground pork tartare, Tartare? – Futureboy Apr 25 2011 at 20:59

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nope, but as a child I once tried to eat a pice of raw chicken, much to my Mother's absolute horror. She tried explaining that there were worms in it and i said "What worms? i dont see any worms!" I just never liked cooked meat, probably aggravated by the fact that Mom often liked to bread and fry cutlets. YUCK. There were a lot of Polish delis in Chicago though and they used to sell what translates to "raw smoked pork tenderloin" which is essentially cold smoked raw tenderloin and GAWD did I always love that. – tartare Apr 25 2011 at 21:04

cold smoked raw tenderloin looks like this: firmymiesne.pl/produkt/… you can see how soft it is, like cold smoked salmon, and the color is totally pink. There has to be a deli in NYC that makes this stuff, you should try it, I think you'd like it. – tartare Apr 25 2011 at 21:54

Futureboy · Answer 3 · 2011-04-25 20:53:14Z UTC

As long as you trust the farmer, and the conditions are clean, you can eat it...wait for it:

MEDIUM RARE! or RAW!

http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/a-pinker-pork/

These guys advocate MR on a chop from CAFO pork...you shouldn't even bat an eyelash cooking your humanely, sustainably, organically, friendly farmer raised pork very rare.

Personally, I LOVE rare pork, nice and juicy. I've never gone "whole-hog" and eaten it raw, but I've heard of it being done, and always wanted to try it!

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