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Poc Chuc
Efrain Poot
Grill chef, Asador Kaxtak, Merida, MX
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Poc Chuc

1 h total40 min hands-onServes 4Easy

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Thin pork bathed in sour orange for a few minutes only, then straight onto hard heat.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Charcoal grill or heavy griddle, Meat mallet, Bowl
Allergens
None declared
Method
13 steps · 11 photographed · 4 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 13 min

2 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Short acid bath

Film

Thin pork cutlets left in sour orange with garlic and pepper for ten minutes, no longer.

Sour orange starts curing the surface almost immediately; an hour in it and the pork grills to the texture of chalk.

  • Sour orange000 g
  • Garlic000 g
Steps
3
Time
15 min
Hands-on
10 min

Makes For 700 g pork

No — timed to the grill

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Xnipec

Red onion, tomato, habanero and coriander steeped in sour orange until the onion turns pink.

It is the acid and heat that the plain grilled pork needs, and it has to be made fresh; it goes flat within hours.

  • Red onion000 g
  • Tomato000 g
Steps
4
Time
30 min
Hands-on
12 min

Makes 350 g · best within 4 hours

Up to 4 hours ahead

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Pork loin or leg000 g
  • Sour orange000 g
  • Garlic000 g
  • Black peppercorns000 g
  • Red onion000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 13 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING5:00

Sour orange and the three-juice substitute

TECHNIQUE4:00

Beating pork thin without tearing it

KIT4:00

Getting a griddle hot enough indoors

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 13 STEPS

11 photographed · 4 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 11 of the 13 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 4 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: not leaving it in the marinade too long — step 8 of 13.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 7 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Efrain Poot watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Ten minutes in acid, timed

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Grill screaming hot, three minutes total

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Xnipec made while the grill heats

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

How thin the pork is beaten and exactly how long it sits in acid before the texture turns from tender to chalky.

Written by Efrain Poot. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

11 verified cooks · 90% said it worked

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