Enough With The Hatch Chiles Already!

[Sid P]

Our freezer is full, but I still had to cruise the meat aisle at Costco, and came across these hatch chile pork shoulders. Considering that this is the only time I’ve seen full pork shoulders flavored with ANYTHING, I’m going to officially declare that hatch chile mania is out of control, and I suspect that at this very moment there are multiple companies developing hatch chile lattes.

ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!

On a more serious note, the label declares them "Great For Tacos", and that does sound good as long as they don’t get too carried away with the heat level. barelfly?

[Panhead John]

I’m waiting on some Pumpkin Spice hatch chili pork shoulders!

[Sid P]

That’s probably being developed, too.

[Purc]

With kale....

[jfmorris]

Here you go!

https://www.simplymeatsmoking.com/pork-recipes/pumpkin-spice-pulled-pork/#recipe

https://heygrillhey.com/pumpkin-spice-pulled-pork/

[realdocBBQ]

Nooooo, for realz, they had those either last year or the year before. I got one and cooked it up - it was actually really good! I've been keeping an eye out for them again, but haven't seen them. Haven't been to Costco in a while, though.

[Sid P]

Can’t believe I missed it. Did you post about it?

[Catmandu]

I just noticed these at our local Costco a week ago. Bought one and made some pulled pork. While the pulled pork turned out very well, I honestly did not taste much hatch chile flavor after it was cooked. My poker group loved it!

[barelfly]

I haven’t had this pork before, but if memory is correct, someone on here just cooked one of these? Or did I see it on YouTube? Hmmmm. I’ll see if I can find it somewhere and come back if I do.

but…I’m sure it’s not hot, I would guess it’s more the flavor of the green chile somehow. Did you end up buying a pack?

[realdocBBQ]

No, it isn't hot. And it's not a STRONG Hatch flavor, either. More of just a southwest kinda thing. But I liked it.

[Sid P]

I didn’t notice until just now that it says "Mild" in the top left corner of the close up pic, so I’m sure you and realdocBBQ are correct about the heat level. I still think it might be one of the signs of The Apocalypse… 😉

[BBQandLove]

The Hatch Green Chile in everything on the shelf is out of control. But MORE Hatch Green Chile.

[58limited]

I agree, More Hatch is fine but I would be happy if pumpkin spice went away.

[jayjordan]

In HEB today the meat market had a 10 foot long section of various hatch chile meat offerings.

[Sid P]

I’d love to see a pic of that.

[Purc]

Here

[Purc]

Sid P I think it's a SW thing. I don't remember seeing them in volume of offerings when I lived in TN

[Alan Brice]

Law ha Mussey!

[barelfly]

Those pork rinds, if it’s the same brand that I had, are really good!

[Uncle Bob]

Smokin' Joe's Pit BBQ posted a vid last week doing one: Mexican Pulled Pork - Smokin' Joe's Pit BBQ

[jfmorris]

Sid P a friend of mine came to borrow something on Saturday evening, and brought me a couple of street tacos he had made that evening using one of those Costco hatch Chile butts. I liked it a lot, and it had a great flavor, but not sure how much hatch character I got from it. He is not a smoker guy, and had done SV and the oven to finish.

[bbqLuv]

This is really good. Kinder's Pumpkin Spice BBQ seasoning.
Great on chicken and going to try on pork.

[Sid P]

You just keep pushing, and pushing, and pushing…😀