Becca <organ> wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
> > I saw her make pork chops on one show, those suckers had to weigh a
> > pound or more each even if you didn't count the bone. �I can see getting
> > thicker chops for stuffing but nowhere near the size these were! �(And
> > she didn't stuff them.) �The mind boggles.
>
> > Jill
>
> She must feed some hungry people. �When I eat a pork chop, I can not eat
> more than 6-8 oz at a time.

Have to say the weight before or after cooking... and TV cameras can
play tricks that can make a portion look much larger than it really
is.

A 6-8 ounce cooked loin pork chop is rather large.. after cooking a
1/2" thick chop would weigh about 4 ounces... an eight ounce chop
would be 1" thick (you can always tell the thickness after cooking
because the bone doesn't shrink, and if there is no bone then it is
NOT a chop). If the chops on that show weighed a pound they'd be 2"
thick. The typical restaurant serves two chops but they are about 1/2
thick. Some fancy schmancy restaurants serve 3/4" thick, even 1"
thick chops, but then they only serve one, usually propped up with
some starchy food to make it appear even larger. I don't think many
restaurants would serve a 2" thick chop, that would contain two ribs
and be a small roast. I have pork chops cooking right now, braising
in tomatio sauce for ziti tonight. The package contained four nice
loin chops, each about 1/2" thick, the total weight was 1 3/4 pounds.
With a pound box of ziti this will make three meals, perhaps two
depending on whether the cats eat the briased chops, sometimes they
do, sometimes not... extra pasta never goes to waste here, I like cold
pasta snacks. I doubt the pork chops on that show were so huge, they
can't mess with the configuration, only the thickness. But a good
camera person can play all kinds of tricks on the eye... never trust
size on TV... Jill probably thinks the pork in those porno films are
real size too. hehe