I buy pork rinds at a flea market near Scottsboro, Alabama. The woman who
makes them gets the skins from Chicago and fries them in peanut oil (which
can be heated to a high temperature without smoking). Peanut oil is 60%
monounsaturated. (Olive oil is 82% monounsaturated.) Anyway, whe then salts
them and sells them in ziploc bags. They are better than any of the
commercial ones I've tasted. I was searching online for information about
thie with the keywords, "how to make pork rinds" and found a recipe that
uses lard as the oil.

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>From: Mark Labbee <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [P-F] fried pork rinds
>Date: Tue, Mar 14, 2000, 12:44 PM
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> Does anyone have information on how pork rinds are processed?
> How are they fried? In their own fat or another type of oil?
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>