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A Boston butt is the slightly wedged shaped portion of the pork shoulder above the standard picnic cut which includes the blade bone and the "lean butt" (which is boneless), both extensions of the tenderloin cut and can be used in place of the tenderloin. Generally the pork shoulder is considered a
A Boston butt is the slightly wedged shaped portion of the pork shoulder above the standard picnic cut which includes the blade bone and the "lean butt" (which is boneless), both extensions of the tenderloin cut and can be used in place of the tenderloin. Generally the pork shoulder is considered a primal cut
A primal cut or cut of meat is a piece of meat initially separated from the carcass of an animal during butchering. Examples of primals include the round, loin, rib, and chuck for beef or the ham, loin, Boston butt, and picnic for pork.
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with the picnic and butt sections being sub-primal cuts however, some sources do refer to the butt as a primary cut.
The tenderloin is closer to the rear of the hog. The shoulder is at the front.
The Boston butt gets its name simply from the fact that it is the wider end of the front shoulder. Butt is old English for “wide end” like the butt of a gun.
See also
*Cut of pork
File:British Pork Cuts.svg, 400px, British cuts of pork
poly 187 219 187 194 173 196 Trotters
poly 372 226 373 207 361 204 359 216 Trotters
poly 171 141 166 104 287 117 294 152 Belly
poly 167 102 178 27 315 23 274 102 Loin
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References
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