Reviewed: Feb. 29, 2012

While I liked the flavor of this recipe, I would not recommend the neck bones! They were very fatty and had a lot of not so great parts. The meat was tender and I did halve the water per other comments. I would use this recipe on another cut of pork no problem!

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Reviewed: Sep. 14, 2011

My family LOVED these! I grew up on neck bones and I myself have not had any so good. The ONLY thing that I warn anyone about is not to let them slow cook too long. Speaking from experience - All of the meat had fallen off the bone and literally disintigrated in with the fat and grissle making dinner a little more challenging.

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Treasa

Reviewed: Aug. 26, 2011

This is a super-cheap and super-easy recipe that can basically be made from pantry ingredients except for the neck bones. The pork is juicy and tender, and from almost four pounds of neck bones, I got about three cups of shredded pork. The nearly four pounds of bones cost me about $6 in central Virginia. The only drawback is the bits of gristle and fragments of bones that I had to spit out nearly every time I ate a helping, even though I tried to carefully pick through the meat after removing it from the bones. I ate pulled pork sandwiches and burritos for several days, so all in all, this recipe will join my other favorite offal recipes.

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M.L. Gainey

Reviewed: Jan. 22, 2011

Followed the recipe, but it was watery, and the meat had very little flavor. I was hoping to find a recipe to use an inexpensive cut of meat, but this wasn't it.

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chaitea

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Reviewed: Sep. 10, 2010

Very tasty, next time I dont think I'll be putting in as much water though. Gotta love budget-friendly recipes!!!

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Rachel713

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Reviewed: Sep. 11, 2009

Great recipe. Authentic Southern taste. Fall off the bone tender flavorful.

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Hernando Brownie

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Living In: Hernando, Mississippi, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 30, 2009

I grew up eating NECK BONES my mother would make it into a Purlo(cook it with rice). My husband is from Calif and he claimed he did not like pork neck bones:) Soooo I got some put them in the crock pot then put bbq sause on them told him is was short ribs he nearly scraped the pot. Have never told him the truth:)

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carolyn

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Sumter, South Carolina, USA

Living In: Florence, South Carolina, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 14, 2009

Could not find neck bones, so I used pork chops. It was good, but very watery. Next time less water, and I added more spices, it was too bland. But still good.

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Chata Jamie

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Jun. 29, 2009

I really liked the flavor but there wasn't enough meat on the bones to make it worth the trouble. You need to be a picker of the bones to enjoy this one. I cooked mine for 6 hours and the meat still didn't fall off the bones. So I continued to cook them for 4 more hours (started it at 6:00am) and the meat was still clinging to the bones. As for what to serve it with: I made a brown gray and wide egg noodles with corn on the side. Like I said the flavor was awesome! Just too time consuming.

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Momma to 2 and 2 pugs =o)

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Holden, Missouri, USA

Living In: Odessa, Missouri, USA

Reviewed: Jun. 25, 2009

This sounds like a very good way to tenderize the neckbones so the meat falls away;, but what would you serve it with, my grandmother used to make us neckbones and pinto beans and this recipe is vey similar

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