Generous Smoked Pork Hocks For Delicious Home Cooked Meals 1.2-1.5 kg 🐷

Succulent Smoked Pork Hocks:

Our expert butchers cut these from the back leg so they are very meaty & have two bones in the middle. Having cured them before smoking they have a nice rich taste that comes out when cooked at home. The Hocks or Schweinshaxe are a particular favourite dish in Germany, & they have some excellent recipes for Pork Hocks in many of their restaurants.

Our Smoked Pork Hocks come from the back leg of the pig the same as the Half Horseshoe Gammons, also available for home delivery. The Hocks are cut from the top of the leg at the upper joint & have the trotter cut from the other end, this leaves the meaty section in the middle that is the Pork Hocks. Smoked Pork Hocks have different names across the world, here are a few that you will see listed in recipe books, this way you will be able to find them easier: pork knuckles, pork shanks, ham hocks.

Cooking Smoked Pork Hocks is simple with many options on how to cook them; oven braised ( with a strong ale is so good), traditional boiling (added fresh vegetables) 2-3 hours, oven roasted (with internal temp of 75°C 2-3 hrs). Cooking these on the Barbeque is always a winner, as live fire always makes the meat that much tastier!

We have added a few links in the How to Cook Tab for you to try new recipes making your Smoked Hocks truly delicious!

Making a pork hock into the product you have bought is done by a process called curing.

It is very simple to make cured Unsmoked Pork Hocks, the curing process is “brining the meat”, which is leaving these in salt water to absorb the salt changing the texture of the meat. The Hocks are injected with a special Brine mix before they are left in very cold chillers over a few days to get the meat to absorb the added flavour of the brine mix. They are then removed from the brine tanks & left to hang in chillers to drain the excess water from them.

Once the excess water has been drained from them, they are then placed into large smoking rooms, where they will stay until there is just enough smokey flavour added to them. Your finished Smoked Pork Hocks are now ready to be packaged. Placed into recyclable clear pouches & vacuumed sealed, they are then dipped into hot water briefly to make the pouch shrink to hold the piece tighter together & lock all the natural flavours into the piece.

The vacuum process will keep your Smoked Pork Hocks just like they were produced when delivered to your door, until you want to cook them. The pouches maintain & protect the piece when being frozen down to -18°c after packing, then during the delivery, whilst in your fridge / freezer at home & when bringing up to temperature before your cook.

The natural vitamins, minerals & protein found in good quality pork is essential towards a balanced diet, & helps with energy levels, digestion, & general fitness. The Smoked Pork Hocks has the skin on the outside with a little fat for extra flavour around the meat.

To make sure your Smoked Hocks have a longer shelf life & are a safer product, all production is carried out under strict hygiene & temperature control. The main reason is to keep natural bacteria to a minimum, also to ensure the meat remains very cold to stop it from losing any natural moisture, as this keeps the texture & flavour of the piece in the best condition.

All our production facilities are BRC Approved & we are always using local herds to support farmers locally to keep sustainable supply chains that have been in existence for many years.

Pork Hocks have been an inexpensive piece to cook at home for a long time, they always eat very soft & have a delicious flavour the whole family enjoys. Having items like Smoked Pork Hocks available to buy online for next day delivery in the UK is great for our customers food budgets. Feeding the family with good meat can be expensive & you don’t want to buy something that is not giving you good value for money.

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