Comments on: Gourmet magazine loves pigs head http://offalgood.com/2008/09/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/ Chef Chris Cosentino’s educational and inspirational tool for those who are interested in learning about and cooking with offal. Sun, 20 Apr 2014 22:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Inka http://offalgood.com/2008/09/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-736 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:10:48 +0000 http://www.offalgood.com/press/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-736 well, I just got a call that my local farmer has 2 pig’s heads for me (no idea what size) some trotters, 2 livers and some kidneys. Never butchered a pig’s head before so, uh, Chris, thank you! This would be impossible for me to do without visual instructions. I’m both excited and nervous. Gonna go clean my little kitchen up, sharpen my knives and break out my charcuterie book.

As for vegans, with all due respect, farming grains and vegetables kills many animals too. They’re just much, much smaller. Are their lives worth less because they are tiny? There is no food chain without death. It’s a fact of life. At least this is a realistic, healthy and respectful approach.

Thanks again Chris!

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By: SHANE http://offalgood.com/2008/09/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-735 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:57:13 +0000 http://www.offalgood.com/press/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-735 Trying it today!

Pigs head is shaved ready to bone.

I hope it looks as good as yours.Please pass on any more info regarding this dish I dont want to be let down by doing something wrong!

Love the site, I am so happy I came across it

Cheers Shane (Australia)

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By: jeremy http://offalgood.com/2008/09/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-734 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:52:33 +0000 http://www.offalgood.com/press/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-734 Question: how long do you cook the porchetta de testa. You mentioned 190 degrees in a bag (sous vide I presume), but did not mention for how long? Thanks for the awesome, very informative video!

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By: Half a Pig … | LivingSmall http://offalgood.com/2008/09/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-733 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:13:46 +0000 http://www.offalgood.com/press/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-733 [...] and although I considered chasing down a head to make guanciale or head cheese out of, after seeing this video of Chris Cosentino butchering a pigs head (actually, I couldn’t get through the video, the prospect of brains and eyeballs freaked me [...]

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By: ciaran http://offalgood.com/2008/09/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-732 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:22:46 +0000 http://www.offalgood.com/press/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-732 I am shocked and disgusted by the closed mindedness of the vegan readers (wishing pain and harm to someone that they’ve never met???how primitive and barbaric is that???). How hypocritical albeit typical of their kind.

What they fail to understand is that the people who pursue this style of cooking are doing it out of a GENUINE RESPECT AND LOVE of the animal by making the best use of its sad sacrifice. Chefs like Constentino care deeply about the ethical treatment and farming that went into raising these beautiful animals.

You vegans who go out on witch hunts by picketing and crucifying honest, hard working chefs are completely misguided and should be ashamed of yourselves.

You don’t even know who your real enemy is.
Get informed and go after the people causing the cruelty and inhumane conditions, not the people who are championing what’s best for the animals that we eat.

Collen and Bea, I hope you can raise yourselves from the deep pit of ignorance that you’ve lowered yourselves to.

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By: Susan http://offalgood.com/2008/09/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-731 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:15:23 +0000 http://www.offalgood.com/press/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-731 Interesting. A revelation in fact. I recognised nothing but the presentation plate. I recall a gathering where a recognisable yummy roulade(?) was amongst the selection. Now I understand the textures. I believe I will do an alternative now with the always leftover lamb flap (when buying a side of lamb). I’d use alternate offal for this of course – can one use lambs tongue – to achieve something different in cold meats. Thanx. Susan.

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By: christopherpepe http://offalgood.com/2008/09/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-730 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:25:42 +0000 http://www.offalgood.com/press/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-730 I’ve been dying to make this since I first saw the video. The heads I have access to are about 25lbs though so I need some help eating it all though.

I have traditionally peeled tongues before eating them because that’s what I was taught to do. The tongue in this video looks unpeeled short of the top front when its added to the rest of the head meat. Do you peel it all or just eat the tongue lining? Do you indeed remove the lining from the top of the tip of the tongue?

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By: Gael http://offalgood.com/2008/09/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-729 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:41:31 +0000 http://www.offalgood.com/press/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-729 Coleen

Are you saying the same thing to people that cook steak? Because what he’s doing is virtually the same thing. Plus he never killed the animal. Just uses parts that actually look like the animal.

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By: colleen quinn http://offalgood.com/2008/09/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-728 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:52:20 +0000 http://www.offalgood.com/press/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-728 your sub-human. Your a gross animal killer not a chef and I wih you the nothing but tragedy in your life.

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By: Anne http://offalgood.com/2008/09/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-727 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:52:36 +0000 http://www.offalgood.com/press/gourmet-magazine-loves-pigs-head/#comment-727 Thanks for posting such an awesome video. This year we’ll be buying our second annual organic whole pig from a local farm. I still have my split-in-half pig’s head from last year (which I guess I’d better take the jowls off of for us and make stock with the bones…), but this year I am definitely getting the head whole so I can make this. It looks so delicious!

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