Hank Heathenry God of Hatemaxxing on Nostr: All salted meats need to be purged of excessive salt in water prior to cooking. It's ...

All salted meats need to be purged of excessive salt in water prior to cooking. It's because salted meats were the way to preserve it prior to refrigeration. You can use straight salt pork to flavor other things like beans or greens, but frying up a piece of fat back without doing that purge like those hillbillies in NC do it's rather unpalatable 😏