Deliciously Meaty Unsmoked Pork Hocks From Finest Quality Pork 1.2-1.5 kg 🐷

Meaty Delicious Unsmoked Pork Hocks:

The Pork Hocks or Schweinshaxe are a particular favourite dish in Germany, & they have some excellent recipes for Pork Hocks in many of their restaurants.

Our Unsmoked Pork Hocks are cut exactly the same as our Smoked Pork Hocks, from the back leg. The piece is cut from between the trotter & the Leg at the upper joint, leaving a single bone inside. The Unsmoked Pork Hocks has a generous amount of meat on them with the rind left on to protect them when cooking. The rest of the leg is made into half  Horseshoe Gammons & cured the same way; these are also available for home delivery.

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

Pork Hocks have different names across the world when they are raw or cooked, these are a few of them; pork knuckles, pork shanks, or ham hocks. The ham hocks are the name given when they are cooked, & can be from the front or back legs, ours are from the back legs because there is more meat on them for better value.

There are many options & recipes for cooking Unsmoked Pork Hocks, from simple traditional boiling in hot water with vegetables for a couple of hours to oven roasted (with internal temp of 75°C 2-3 hrs). A good Barbeque Rub or seasoning two hours before putting on the Barbeque for some Low n’ Slow cooking, is one of the best ways to cook most things. The flavour is absolutely stellar when finished, the meat absorbs those smokey aromas & the texture is very soft.

We have added a few links in the How to Cook Tab for you to try new recipes making your Unsmoked Pork 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 Pork 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.

Your finished Unsmoked Pork Hocks are now ready to be packaged. Vacuum sealed into clear recyclable pouches before dipped quickly into hot water to allow the pouch to tighten & pull the piece together more. The process will keep the meat from losing any of its natural juices into the bag.

Your Unsmoked Pork Hocks will arrive to your door just like they were produced & stay like this frozen at home until the day when 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.

To make sure your Unsmoked Pork 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 Unsmoked Pork Hocks available to buy online for next day delivery in the UK is great for our customers food budgets. It is not easy trying to feed the family tasty meals that are cheap to make, the Good Old fashioned Pork Hock is perfect for easy, inexpensive home cooked meals.

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