NYTimes.com - Pernil, a Puerto Rican Pork Roast

[ricantwin]

15 dislike = immigrant haters

[elbacooks4u]

Nice video Mark. Stop by my cooking channel and see my pernil and other puerto rican recipes.

God Bless,

Elba

[QBRikan77]

@elbacooks4u He really needs to stop by your channel because this recipe is far from being a Puerto Rican Pernil

[geraldinebacalso]

Pork shoulders are great for roasting. After watching the video it is the first time I knew that pernil was just pork shoulders.

[stonepass1]

Where is the sofrito? :)

[yrv980]

He does not look like he is having a good time doing this!

[BluntCommentGuy]

There's nothing Puerto Rican about this guy's "purneel".

[BluntCommentGuy]

@BluntCommentGuy and another thing....if you have to slice it with a big knife, you didn't cook it right. It should nearly fall apart just from breathing on it.

[PerfectionObsessive]

@BluntCommentGuy it's actually called production time, cooking shows have to be done within a time frame because the crew is usually shooting around a schedule.

[kawola17]

Not bad. Not bad.

[MrJimzyacking]

Good try ............Where does it become, Puerto Rican.......But I'd eat it . Need much more info on cooking for people who dont know what temp & time. EAT ,Pork the other white meat.

[ItSDatChiCkNeSs]

LOL, anybody that says Pernil the way he does knows nothing about Puerto Rican cooking!!

[wwus120]

excellent chef, but that's not we do it in P.R.

[davegoes]

Like everyone else said, that is NOT PR Pernil, spices all wrong and you shouldn't need a knife to carve or eat it. The meat should be falling off the bone.

[googo151]

It's good but not PR by any means. I in fact have a Puerto Rican pork roast in the oven and I made slits in the meat fat side and flesh side and stuffed with garlic slivers and also made a sofrito and marinaded the roast with that sofrito over night. Bittman! What's up dude?

[campcasey62]

All these comments are giving me the giggles. My Latina Brothers and Sisters, I am Irish and Japanese and I am even questioning what the heck is he making? I learned to make Pernil from My Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban friends.

[BoriquaRikan1227]

@campcasey62 Dominicans don't make this...If they do, They learned it from the PuertoRicans it's like saying, karate is PuertoRicans when it comes from Japan. lol Cubans do somewhat similar, but they call it Lechon Arsao'.

[spicyc69]

He got this so wrong! There is nothing Puerto Rican about this. Maybe just the garlic but that is all.

[esowek]

wow. just wrong on so many levels.  read the other posts, this is not traditional pernil. its like making curry with no tumeric or heat. just not accurate for pernil.

[DivineBrat]

This may be a nice dish, but it is not Puerto Rican Roast Pork. There is nothing Puerto Rican about it. Well, maybe the garlic, but he added so little of it. My family recipe only calls for a lot of garlic, oregano, salt, black pepper, oil or achiote and a touch of vinegar all pounded into a paste. This is the basics. Puertoricans will not use onions or cumin and no kind of hot pepper on their pernil. Our food is spicy but not hot. We prefer to serve "pique" or hot sauce on the side.

[personaltourguide]

It looks absolutely tender and delicious!

[bubblyhispanik]

yoooo k le pasa a ete?! thats like throw up on there!! omg!! people do not make this!! NOT PERNIL at alll!!! it made him cry?!?! wut tha hell? thts a sign!!

[jaimewithaj]

Almost stopped watching when he said cumin and chili powder, deffinately not puerto rican. And yeah i would be so pissed to eat that when you ruined the best part... the skin!

[Imperialdolphin]

Mr., what the hell kind of pernil cooking are you doing 'cause it certainly not Puerto Rican or Cuban or Dominican. And what the heck is all the water u are putting in there, instead of apple cider vinegar or orange juice. That is not how a Puerto Rican cooks a pernil. And where on earth is the chicarron. Oh...ok...you are putting it back in oven. Oooo...here it comes...WHAT THE HECK DID YOU DO! The skin is burned and it's not cracklin. UGH!

[bluepicis]

Recipe:

7 lbs. pork shoulder - picnic cut (with fat)

9 garlic cloves (You may use powder garlic or ground garlic sold in glass jars - 1 tsp. equals one clove.)

½ teaspoon black pepper

½ teaspoon crushed oregano

1½ tablespoons olive oil

1½ teaspoon salt

[MiirelysLaBorii07]

hahahha I know we used adobo, sofrito, sazon hahahaha! Ay bendito we dont even like chile. HAHAHAHAHA WOW I crack up watching this videosss! Que pavera! jajajajaja

[tckmexi]

@MiirelysLaBorii07 Dont like chili and you call yourself boricua?!?!?! What do you think bell pepper is? its definitely a type of chili, hes just giving the option of using whichever chili you wanna use, Bell pepper is used in sofrito, etc. besides chiles are great for your health and spice up your life try them! LOL

[MiirelysLaBorii07]

@tckmexi sorry but im 100% boricua and im yeah i don't like chile and most puerto ricans I know dont like chile neither and yeah we use bell pepper in the sofrito but the way he did this was totally wrong. And He didn't even add sazon, sofrito nothing on the pernil and when i say chile im talking about the sauce he did. You understand now? And every chile I tasted is hot as heck! I can't handle it lol so I think ill stay away from chile. But thanks for letting me know about chile:)

[zumogo]

his doing a mexican style one.. chilli is for south of the border...

and am not puertorican. i know this...

but then again.... its your recipie

[MGarciareporting]

This had me rolling on the floor, PER-NEAL. Every single time he said PER-NEAL I was cracking up.

[MrTinycat]

sofrito FAIL!!!!

[luisdeleon1987]

We don't use chili!!!!! that's for Mexicans recipes!!!!

[msdw59]

you're damn right there is no chili in a wet adobo or sofrito. What the hell. What the hell? And he said it - Culturely he don't know jack about pernil. Makes me mad! that he's perporting to be a subject matter expert. I don't think so. Where the hell is Daisy from the Bronx's recipe

[tckmexi]

@luisdeleon1987 What do you think bell pepper is? its definitely a type of chili, hes just giving the option of using whichever chili you wanna use. Not only mexicans enjoy chili, they are great for your health and spice up your life! LOL

[sorajima1]

smells like pig lmao

[kaijahzmom]

I personally am not Puerto Rican but I DO make my pernil by cutting slits in the meat, putting slices of garlic in the slits, season and rub down with a BLEND of Sazon, Adobo and a little sofrito and marinade with some Mojo Criollo that's makes it so juicy and tender! I have made it for years and it has always been a HIT when serving for guests. I don't know what kind of recipe this is that he's talking about. NO Puerto Rican that I know cooks like that

[CherryFlvdIcey]

look at him hes a white man lol thats why lmao..

[echicao]

pernil is not the name of the recipe, rather the name of the cut. also, i love your show, but this is nothing like a puertorrican "pernil".

[pocillocortado]

If you want the skin to be crispy take out a big chunk, wrap it with a napkin, microwave it like 2 or 3 minutes.

[Laborinyc]

what you didnt put no sazon? thats not how we boricua cook

[tkdgirl49]

Mr.Biscuit as gay as that name is , your an idiot , you must be having green card issues. Puerto Rico is a free assoc

territory of the U.S. since 1917, all Puerto Ricans are born as American citizens.unlike yourself-Puerto Ricans are a blend of Spanish, Taino Indian African cultures so watch who your putting down. Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans all have a slight variations on pernil recipes, none using onions you freak. , so stick that in your Pernil and eat it.

[MrBiscuit77]

@tkdgirl49 Onions are in Adobo & everyone has a variation. I think Cuban food is better. Someone has to cut the grass so I don't have an issue with puerto ricans. Don't get the concept of them having chickens as pets but....hey

[tkdgirl49]

Every country that utilizes pernil makes it different , but i don't think anyone uses onions in it.. I cant even imagine it tasting good with onions. Garlic, Lemon Yes. But not onions.

[MrBiscuit77]

@tkdgirl49 Puerto Rico isn't a country..Its a Commonwealth state owned by the US

[MrBiscuit77]

@tkdgirl49 you animals can have the country I will retire out of it.......

[mmaldo1]

That's not puertorrican cousin...Where is the ADOBO????

[DESERTHAWKIN]

per-nil as in ped neal not perneal

[alexbrocha1]

there is no way in the world you prepare pernil with oinions, the main ingrident is garlic.

[tkdgirl49]

Mr. Biscuit your wrong in so many ways, but let me start with your ignorance - #1. Puerto Rican cuisine is delicious mouth watering an art with history.

#2. your a racist pig.

[MrBiscuit77]

You are a meathead. What you typed is similar to saying I don't like apples so I am racist. If I were racist I would comment about the welfare Commonwealth state of Puerto Rico, the single parent #'s, the education rates...should I stop??

[tkdgirl49]

racist

[MrBiscuit77]

@tkdgirl49 and no girl is 51.......old goat

[tkdgirl49]

oh wow.. ouch.. bactine please.. bandaid.. I have to laugh at your attempt ..

[prexplorer]

You haven't had real PR food.

[MarIve9898]

First of all , we don't add onions to our pernil , second , we don't add cumin or chile or anything spicy. We add garlic , Salt , pepper , oregano . Some people also add olives. We use vinegar and a little oil. That's how it's done in my family , we mash all the ingredients in a mortar and marinate overnight.

[Torste0908]

'look at that, thats beautiful'

I didn't find it particularily beautiful at all.

[ein08by]

like yeah man like ,can't we all just like, a ,a , get get along, yeah man

[frankguevara]

funniest comments i've read in a video ever.

[googo151]

People People Can't we just get along? Huh, can we! LOL!

[robzombay]

these are so stupid , what the hell is it with these stupid posts, you must be like 10 years old.

[PutaLoca11]

I'm pretty sure that it tasted like crap anyway.

[robzombay]

oye, tu puta maricone that pinche judeo probably has more money than you. I agree this recipe sucks, and this ain't your YOUR pork standard so you shut up ,Boricua cobron,lol

[PutaLoca11]

I'm going to find out where you live so I can get you deported. You dirty fucking piece of shit, wetback. Vete cagate en tu madre pedaso de animal. You're just jealous becuase I don't have to worry about the "migra" running after me. Mariconson. Seguramente eres gordo, chiquito, con un pipisito manisero, y una cara que pareses un mojon prieto! Cabronaso! Maldita sea la puta fea que te pario.

[PutaLoca11]

Leave it to a jewboy to ruin my PR pork standard. you should just called pork shoulder and not even bother referencing it as genuine PR food because it's not.

[TargetGuy2245]

He must not be kosjer. He took a bite. Pork is irrestible.

[MuffinMario]

Looks like he's flavoring a Puerto Rican pernil roast by using Mexican flavors. Hey, this is America where we make ethnic foods even better by borrowing from different cuisines. Can't wait to try this.

[promcomp]

can you cook this on the slow cooker? wouldnt that be faster?

[DailyArtPainters]

Search for 'Lagasse pernil' for the real deal!

[boricuaachadeldiache]

Bitty...love ya...but bendito...this is not Puerto Rican Pernil...we do not eat spicey food...our heat is on the side...You are crying because the Boricua Gods punished you for not researching your subject matter...Bago...(lazy) I will forgive you...:O)

[relisa1978nov]

we dont use onions or vinegar either that is not a pueto rican further more you shouldn't make our food practically gagging over it you dont be stupid

[relisa1978nov]

hey ny times puerto ricans dont use cumin or ancho powder in their pernil where did u get ur recipe from some hot shot chef putting a gormet spin on our food leave it criollo ass wipe

[Semicton]

stop acting stupid.

[sober1980]

nummy!!!!! PammieKay

[darkgardyner]

THIS is what I'm cooking tomorrow...I can hardly wait! Looks absolutely amazing.

[hunclemike]

That looks unbelievable! I'm cooking a pork roast and kraut with smoked sausage and mashed potatoes, kind of Dutch -style. You're all invited, just bring some beer, I only have a case! Happy New Year!

[googo151]

Don't cry out loud! just learn how to hide your feelings!

[frosty1smooth2]

jajaja!!! Looks good but it is not real puerto rican pernil!!

[nuttybar9]

whats that  orange lard the puerto ricans buy used for

[mastablasta24]

lol at how he says pernil it looks good n all but weres the sofrito?????? it aint puerto rican if it aint got no sofrito

[koricanprez]

I guess that mixture is his version of a cross between sofrito and mojo. Did you hear how he said pimento? Je hee hee =)

[rf0t0]

i thought "perneal" was funnier.

[kaijahzmom]

That was funny! rotfl

[googo151]

Nice!!

[morenia20]

hahahaha he is funny, is not too Puerto Rican the marinating thing but it will work as well. Although we Puerto ricans like the meet with more salt than the regular american taste, so we add one teaspoon of salt for each pound of meat. It looks delicious

[DoranP900]

I'm not Puerto Rican but I use more salt as well in seasoning my meats. I love Puerto Rican food!!!. Yum-0

[car4dave]

yumm :o)