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Country-style ribs

Country-style ribs substitutes

What to use when you can't find Country-style ribs at your butcher

Country-style ribs is the traditional name in United States. Outside that tradition, butchers carry comparable pork cuts under different names — sometimes the same anatomical piece, sometimes a close cousin. The alternatives below are grouped by country so you can match what your local butcher actually carries.

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United States

Boston buttapproximate

Some country-style ribs are cut from the upper shoulder (Boston butt) rather than from the loin blade end. Both share the same heavy marbling and long-cook tolerance.

Pork chopapproximate

Anatomically adjacent — country-style ribs are cut from the blade-end of the loin (where chops also originate) but are thicker, more heavily marbled, and have rib-like proportions. Pork chops are centre-cut; country-style ribs are blade-cut.

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