Pork Temple Meat

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What should I ask the butcher for? Is this the same cut as pork cheeks?

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i ask the butcher for temple meat. if he doesnt know what that is tell him jowl meat

temple meat is not the same as jowl or cheek, temple comes from the temple of the pig, not sure where you are located but any local store in Gonzales has it readily available, outside of Ascension you may only be able to get it in a 30 lb case by special order

use boston butt it works just as good, the big thing with temple meat is the convenience, if you are cooking a 30 gallon jambalaya it is so much easier to use because you do not have to cut it up, by design it is small perfectly sized individual pieces,dont go out of your way or worry about it

Unless he's changed, Donald Link uses pork temple meat at Cochon and sells them under the guise of cheeks...fyi. I wasn't too happy to find that out. It's like thinking you're ordering catfish while being served swai.

Holy shite just saw the original thread date

Wrong, temple meat is not the same as check of jowl meat (those would be too big for jambalaya without cutting ) but temple meat is just right, straight from the box to the pot, yes some pieces are bigger than others but it all gets reduced as it cooks, I do it all the time and most big time jambalaya cooks in the Gonzales area do the same

I never said cheek and temple were the same. I simply said I stumbled on
this temple meat thread when searching for threads on cheek. I purchase my temple meat at lamdendola’s for jambalaya and there are big arse pieces in it. Theirs is frozen into very large blocks and they saw it frozen. Works out pretty well.

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use boston butt it works just as good, the big thing with temple meat is the convenience, if you are cooking a 30 gallon jambalaya it is so much easier to use because you do not have to cut it up, by design it is small perfectly sized individual pieces,dont go out of your way or worry about it

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Bingo! 100% factual.