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Pork Chops, Broiled or Fried

Pork chops grilled or fried until cooked through, seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,121 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Pork Chops, Broiled or Fried

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the chops neatly and cut away part of the fat.

  2. Grease the grill and heat it.

Grill and season

  1. Place the chops on the grill over a clear fire.

  2. Turn the chops every two minutes until cooked through, about 25 minutes.

  3. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Pork chops
The main protein; cooking over direct heat sets a browned surface while the interior cooks through.

The step that matters

Turning the chops every two minutes. Frequent turning exposes each side to steady heat, so the chop cooks evenly without scorching the outside before the centre is done. The thick cut needs time for heat to reach the middle.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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