What are double-cut chops?
I was in a restaurant recently and the menu included "double-cut pork chop". The person I was with ordered this, but it looked like an ordinary pork chop to me. (I don't eat pork so I don't have a lot of experience with this -- just what I've seen others eat.) Google led me to speculation, but nothing authoritative, that they're thicker; one site said up to 20oz, but the menu in this restaurant said 10oz. (I also searched Seasoned Advice but didn't find anything.)
Are double-cut chops cut from a different part of the animal (more toward the center, maybe?), or is it just a wider cut from wherever the butcher was cutting anyway, or is the Google speculation wrong and it means something different? And is this term specific to pork, or are there other kinds of double-cut chops (e.g. lamb)?
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The term "double" is not specific to pork - it's also used with lamb - but it means something different in each case.
A lamb double chop or loin double chop differs from a regular loin chop by including both the top loin and tenderloin, but not the flank. It hasn't actually been cut twice.
A pork butterfly chop is sometimes called a "double chop" because, as the name implies, it's been butterflied. A very thick cut is taken from the loin eye and then cut again to make the butterfly.
Of course, if you cut a butterflied pork chop in half, and served just one half, it would basically be a regular pork chop. So if you that's what you actually got, I'd call it a marketing gimmick.
I've never actually heard the term "double-cut chop" - there are some vague references to it on Google, but as far as I know, it's not a proper butchering term. Perhaps the term got relayed through several people and mutated somewhere along the way.
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What does double cut lamb chops mean?
Double-cut are chops that are basically double thickness. When they clean the chops (frenching), they remove a couple of the bones in between so that they can adjust where they cut the chops and make them thicker.What does double cut mean?
double-cut file noun. : a file with a surface cut into two series of parallel ridges crossing each other usually at less than a right angle, both ridges being diagonal to the center line of the file.How thick is a double cut pork chop?
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Put the chops in the skillet and brown for 8 minutes. Remove the skillet from the stove. Flip the chops over and place them in the oven cooking until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of the pork registers 145 degrees F. (about 15 minutes depending on thickness of the chops.Double Cut Pork Chops Redone - Why These Double Cut Pork Chops Are Tender and Juicy
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Answer 2
Double cut means it has TWO ribs attached, not that it's been cut twice!
Answer 3
I just ordered the double cut pork chop at a place called Houston's. It was about the size of a baseball and it had 3 ribs attached.
Answer 4
I've sometimes heard double-cut used to mean that one bone is included in the center, while all the meat up to the two adjacent bones is also included. That is, you cut against the right of bone 1 and the left of bone 3, leaving you with a chop with bone 2 in the middle, plus all the intercostal meat on both sides.
Answer 5
I just found a recipe for “ 1 bone-in double-cut pork chop about 2” thick. It’s a recipe for two. I assume it’s a bone in chop, two bones 2” thick cut into two chops that will be 1” thick. Not sure why it doesn’t just call for two bone in chops. ????????
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