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Another interesting part of the equation...hocks and shanks cost the same in most stores. You will find that shanks might be carried in a higher end neighborhood and hocks in a lower end neighborhood...lets say the same un-named store both places and the same price per pound!
Thelma. Since I don't know where you live, I'm not sure how I can help you. Here, in Central PA, I can find ham shanks or ham hocks in several places. Having done a quick internet search for you, the 1st place that came up on-line was Omaha Steaks. Hope this helps. Happy New Year!
Today, File, whose business has been increasing more than 10 percent a year for the last four years, sells more than 1 million of the roughly 2.5 million pounds of the processed shanks sold in the nation each year.
Under various noms de porc, the shanks are being served at restaurants and bars across the country. Farmland Foods, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, has begun selling KC Wild Wings to wholesale restaurant accounts.
Smithfield recently sold Paula Deen-brand shanks on QVC, the television shopping channel. File has pitched but not yet sold his Pig Wings to national fast-casual chains like Buffalo Wild Wings and Famous Dave's.
But over the last few decades, as convenience foods like boneless hams and spiral-sliced whole hams gained in popularity, meat processors began to remove the shank before processing, said Stephen Gerike, director of food service marketing for the National Pork Board. Packers processed meat from shanks into cold cuts and other ham products.
Such protein reclamation efforts have driven up the price of shanks, said Tom Jones, ham business director for Farmland. Processors had to find more profitable ways to use them. But as pork marketers zeroed in on ham shanks, they didn't settle on a name.
Even among restaurants near Appert's Foodservice, the company in St. Cloud that produces and co-packs about 40 percent of the cut and processed shanks sold in the United States, there is little agreement on what to call the little pork morsels.
The Great Waters Brewing Company, in St. Paul, calls the two-ounce versions squealers, and serves them at banquets with a beer mustard sauce. Jack & Jim's Food and Liquor in Duelm, Minn., labels them Duelm Country Ribs. Toasty Beaver's Sports Bar and Grill in Bemidji, Minn., gives shanks a thematic makeover as beaver tails.
That bone-as-handle notion is integral to the appeal of Pig Wings. It recalls the drumette portion of a chicken wing. It plays off the popularity of stick-mounted foods, from old-school fried corn dogs to new-school fried chicken gizzards. With that top-of-mind some restaurants have begun selling deep-fried ham shanks as carnitas-on-sticks or carnitas lollipops.
My Recipes explains ham hocks are the joint between the pig's foot and leg which means they're made up of mostly skin, tendons, and ligaments and not very much meat. Conversely, according to Piedmont Grocery, shanks come from just below the pig's shoulder or hip and tend to be meatier than hocks. If you can find pork shanks fresh rather than smoked, they can be prepared on their own just like lamb or beef shanks.
Food & Wine suggests making a meal out of fresh shanks by braising them low and slow in chicken stock, wine, onions, carrots, and celery. But if you're faced with smoked ham shanks or hocks at your grocery store, simply choose one or the other and put them to work as a flavoring agent in a pot of white beans with dried herbs, crushed red pepper, and broth as The Spruce Eats does, or in Bon Appetit's slow-simmered chickpea soup with lots of garlic and kale.
When using a ham hock, Bon Appetit recommends discarding the skin, bones, and fatty remnants left on the hock at the end of cooking but says to save the little bits of meat still connected to the bone, which can be chopped and added back into the pot. Piedmont Grocery says the slightly more substantial meat from long-cooked shanks will fall right off the bone, making for an effortless contribution of a little more substance to your dish. You'll pay more for the meatier shank then you will for the leaner hock but both are still considered inexpensive cuts. Plus, they freeze well so be sure to stock up when you find them and settle in for some slow-cooked deliciousness. 59ce067264
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