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Pork chop

Pork chop substitutes

What to use when you can't find Pork chop at your butcher

Pork chop 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.

United States

Country-style ribsapproximate

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.

Germany

Kasslerclose substitute

Kassler Kotelett is the bone-in chop variant — same cut as a pork chop, but brine-cured and cold-smoked rather than sold fresh.

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