Carnitas vs Carne Asada

Carnitas? The good stuff, with nice crispy bits and no big fat chunks ('cause it's all rendered out and saturating everything)...

Or carne asada?

All the car vs car stuff was too easy. Thought I'd try a meatier query.

Though I have to say, it's a difficult question. I find asada more reliable... Carnitas can go wrong so many ways, and I'm pickier about it.

I guess I'd have to go asada because when they're both at their best, it's still close, but asada wins more often.

This is a decision i can't make.

All i can offer is that i'm making Puerco Pibil this week.

Carne asada. I've had some great stuff in Monterey and Saltillo, Mexico.

Neither! I've lived in Mexico and Central America and there's no berkeleying way I'm trusting any meat from that region, even if it's just in name.

Welp, looks like I am going to a Mexican restaurant tonight to try one or the other or both. Thanks for the thought.

Yep. Off to find some Carne Asada after work with a Margarita!

Why can't we have both?

but I tend to the Adobada myself

In reply to 92CelicaHalfTrac:

Oh, good stuff... The whole nine yards? If I'm thinking of the right stuff, it's cooked in banana leaves for hours and hours? There's a place a few blocks from my house that does it, and it's really good, but they have a bunch of seafood specials that I can't stay away from. (Dammit, my girlfriend will be bummed if I go without her, and now I want the arroz con camarones for lunch).

You my friend have ensured that I will be visiting the super taco again for lunch.

Tortas and Sopes!

In reply to ditchdigger:

That's the beauty of tacos. No decision. One of this, one of that, maybe one of the other...

But sometimes you want a sope, or a burrito, or a torta... And then you have to decide...

Pollo Asada.

That's not "shredded chicken". That stuff is for tourists. I'm talking the seasoned, grilled chicken.

I agree on the Carnitas being unreliable. Depending on the place they're either food of the gods or a crappy boiled/shredded mess.

Carne Asada is typically just bad. It's a crap cut of beef cooked in a way to mask the fact it's starting to go bad. If it's good meat (aka "grilled steak"), it generally means the taco is too gourmet'd up and is a crappy taco that you're paying too much for.

If your answer is Carne Asada, you've not had melt-your-face-off delicious Carnitas.

Pig FTW. Oh, and tortilllas are useless berkeleying filler.

ransom wrote: In reply to 92CelicaHalfTrac: Oh, good stuff... The whole nine yards? If I'm thinking of the right stuff, it's cooked in banana leaves for hours and hours? There's a place a few blocks from my house that does it, and it's really good, but they have a bunch of seafood specials that I can't stay away from. (Dammit, my girlfriend will be bummed if I go without her, and now I want the arroz con camarones for lunch).

Yep.... banana leaves! I've got a 5lb Pork Butt ready to go.

In reply to 92CelicaHalfTrac:

I'm jealous... A lot.

I should start a thread chronicling what i'm cooking. You'll get so jelly you'll jam.

I cook a lot.

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: I should start a thread chronicling what i'm cooking. You'll get so jelly you'll jam. I cook a lot.

same here...

for me - carnitas. pork fat wins. plus i do not eat beef.

i'm going to teach myself how to make bacon next. i just got into sausage making and the first batch came out good.

oh I love me some carnitas. 9 times out of 10 its what I will order when its available.

We usually make Pork carnitas with oranges in a slow cooker make up your minds and we will make it for the MItty !

Depends on where I go. Asada if its the fancy place. They just do it better.

Carnitas. Always bet on pork.

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: I should start a thread chronicling what i'm cooking. You'll get so jelly you'll jam. I cook a lot.

Oooh... a food build thread grm style? Go for it man!

Holy hell, now i'm starving. Good thing I have some skirt steaks and some killer sekrit spices at home.

Carnitas for sure

I'd love a food thread...
I'd say carnitas vs carne asada depends very highly on preparation. Either one, well done, could be a winner, and either could be a royal nasty affair if done wrong.

most interesting dish I've cooked lately:
Pesto chicken over french fried potato slices with a melted brie/pesto mix all over it

I think we have a general food thread... and even a recipe thread. But there's no "here's pictures of what i'm currently making and pictures of the finished product" thread, WITH recipes to make the things in pictures.

I'll see what i can do. We spend a lot of time combing the internet for easy delicious recipes and trying them. Try to make two new things a week.