Backstrap vs tenderloin
01-03-2011, 03:47 PM
#41
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Grand Forks BC Canada
Posts: 760
Good discussion - wish I'd seen this sooner so I could have posted sooner. Here's a little education thing I did a number of years ago and the last picture on this page (figure 10) is what is being referred to as the tenderloins. Note the location.
www.angelfire.com/bc/canuck2/gutting4.html
www.angelfire.com/bc/canuck2/gutting4.html
01-04-2011, 05:04 AM
#42
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: the woods of NJ.
Posts: 5,643
I learned when I shot my first hog that there are two cuts that are referred to: Loins and tender loins. Loins being the long strip on the back (backstraps) and the tenderloins are the ones on the inside. If you go to a grocery store you can see the different cuts of pork. You will see the loins are much larger then the tenderloins. __________________
site by the way.
01-04-2011, 05:55 AM
#43
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Audubon & Red Rock, Penna.
Posts: 4,472
Loins being the long strip on the back (backstraps) and the tenderloins are the ones on the inside. If you go to a grocery store you can see the different cuts of pork. You will see the loins are much larger then the tenderloins.
BTW - I've used 6 different butchers over the years and have never had one take the tenderloins or loins. They always ask how we want them, whole, chops or butterfly.
