How to cook Coles crumbed pork chops

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How to cook Coles crumbed pork chops

Dedicated to Homer Simpson

I’ve bought these Coles crumbed pork chops a few times now and I’ve tried cooking them a couple of ways. The instructions on the packaging suggest cooking in an oven or pan frying. I wondered which way is the best.

Coles crumbed pork chop

 

 

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You can see from the label that each packet has roughly 500 grams or a pound of pork chops and the cost in Australia is $AUD26 per kilogram which is roughly $USD10 a pound.

Pan frying

Advantages of pan frying

  • Relatively easy
  • Relatively quick
  • Control of cooking heat
  • Control of cooking medium, e.g., vegetable oil, butter, no butter or oil
  • Able to ‘baste’ with the butter or oil as the pork chop cooks

Disadvantages of pan frying

  • Oil/butter splatter and mess
  • Easy to burn the crumb coating
  • Washing a frying pan
  • The need for butter or oil

Oven cooking

Advantages of oven cooking

  • Easy
  • Even heating
  • Almost ‘set and forget’
  • Lower chance of burning the crumb coating
  • Using a sheet of baking paper means no oil or butter necessary and no washing up of a frying pan
  • More tender muscle/flesh

Disadvantages of oven cooking

  • Need to turn the pork chop over halfway through the cooking period
  • The crumb coating can look dry at the end

My personal preference is…

So how do I prefer to have my Coles crumbed pork chops? I like to cook mine in the oven. The meat comes out more tender in my opinion and it’s less messy to cook my meat in a bench-top toaster-oven.

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I bought all the ingredients from Coles.

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Recipe

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How to cook Coles crumbed pork chops?
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Resting time
5 mins
Total Time
25 mins
 
So you've bought a couple of Coles crumbed pork chops and you read two options on how to cook them. Which way is the best?
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Australian
Keyword: Coles crumbed pork chops, Coles pork chops, Crumbed pork chops, Pork chops
Servings: 2 Adults
Calories: 500 kcal
Author: Gary Lum
Ingredients
  • Coles crumbed pork chops
  • Spray on cooking oil
Instructions
The pork chop bit
  1. Heat your oven to 200 °C/400 °F. I use a benchtop toaster oven.
  2. Put a pork chop on some baking paper on a baking tray.
  3. Spray a little cooking oil on the surface of the pork chop.
  4. Put the pork chop into the oven when the temperature reaches 200 °C/400 °F.
  5. After 10 minutes, remove the pork chop and turn it over and spray some cooking oil on the exposed surface.
  6. Put the pork chop into the oven for a further 10 minutes.
  7. After a total of 20 minutes, remove the pork chop and let it rest for 5 minutes before eating.
Plating up bit
  1. However, you like. I often have a pork chop with vegetables or a salad.
  2. If you like you could serve it with some applesauce too.
Blogging bit
  1. Shoot a photograph and a short video because Google now wants video on recipe cards.
  2. Eat the meal.
  3. Wash the dishes (hint, wash as you cook, it makes life easier).
  4. Write the recipe.
  5. Write the blog post.
  6. Hit publish and hope this blog post gets shared on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

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Recipe Notes

Disclaimer

I have no culinary training nor qualifications. This post is not intended to convey any health or medical advice. If you have any health concerns about anything you read, please contact your registered medical practitioner. The quantities are indicative. Feel free to vary the quantities to suit your taste. I deliberately do not calculate energy for dishes. I deliberately default to 500 Calories or 500,000 calories because I do not make these calculations.

Photographs

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Tuesday dinner. Oven baked crumbed pork chop with mango and avocado salad. I cooked the pork chop for 20 minutes at 200 °C/400 °F turning at 10 minutes. The salad is KP mango, Hass avocado, capsicum, red onion, spring onion, fennel, lemon zest, lemon juice, and olive oil.
Tuesday dinner. Crumbed Old Bay pork chop with hot and spicy creamy vegetables. I cooked the chop in a frypan with butter. I poured the hot butter into a bowl of diced capsicum, red onion, spring onion, and daikon radish and stirred through with sour cream and cherry tomatoes.
Tuesday dinner. Oven baked crumbed pork chop with mango and avocado salad. I cooked the pork chop for 20 minutes at 200 °C/400 °F turning at 10 minutes. The salad is KP mango, Hass avocado, capsicum, red onion, spring onion, fennel, lemon zest, lemon juice, and olive oil.
Wednesday dinner. Oven baked crumbed pork chop with mango and avocado salad. I cooked the pork chop for 20 minutes at 200 °C/400 °F turning at 10 minutes. Served with a fried egg and avocado. A light dinner because I ate a lot during the day.
Sunday dinner. Crumbed pork chop from Coles with diced raw vegetables and fruit. The pork was pan fried in rice bran oil and served with some homemade caramelised onions. See how pan frying can nearly burn the surface.
Call me Homer. Old Bay crumbed pork chop with Royal Gala apple and aioli on a mango, avocado, apple, capsicum, red onion, spring onion, daikon radish, lemon zest, lemon juice, olive oil, poppy seed, sesame seed and parsley salad.
Coles crumbed pork chop
Wednesday dinner. Baked crumbed cheesy pork chop with raw vegetables. I baked the pork for 20 minutes at 200 °C/400 °F (turning over at 10 minutes and adding some cheese and butter).
Wednesday dinner. Oven baked crumbed pork chop with mango and avocado salad. I cooked the pork chop for 20 minutes at 200 °C/400 °F turning at 10 minutes. Served with a fried egg and avocado. A light dinner because I ate a lot during the day.

Questions and answers

Why is oven baked better?

I don’t know why. I guess it may be because the temperature control is better. In a fry pan, there is always a risk of burning the crumb coating and you get tempted to turn the heat down and then worry that that might require increasing the duration of cooking time to compensate.

Is Australian pork safe to eat?

Look, I’m no expert, but I’d expect if Australian pork had a problem with parasites I’d be seeing the effects of those parasites when I work as an Honorary Visiting Medical Officer in ACT Pathology. I’m a Specialist Microbiologist and it’s in the microbiology laboratory we often see the consequences of unsafe food.

Do you like watching The Simpsons?

Of course, I do. Who doesn’t like The Simpsons? I try to emulate Homer in life.

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Final thoughts

  • Do you like eating pork chops?
  • Do you make noises like Homer Simpson when eating pork chops?
  • Do you believe that pigs are magical animals?

 

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16 Responses

    1. Thanks, Karen. I agree and when I’m not fussed about splatter and mess, being able to spoon melted butter over the pork is nice, but for most meals, I prefer the oven for ease of use.

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    1. One day I want to learn how to break down a whole pig and use everything. I dream of a food based holiday somewhere to learn some butchering skills.

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  4. I’m with you on the oven cooking pork chops, Gary. Whenever I pan fry pork, it always ends up overcooked. There’s a stall at my local farmer’s market that sells pork that comes from Tamworth pigs and the pro steaks they have are wonderful, much nicer than beef.

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  6. One of my favourite pork recipes is fried pork chops in a cream, sage, garlic and white wine sauce. Easier to make than it sounds. Just fry the chops in butter/olive oil, remove put in the oven, and then bung the rest in for the sauce.

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  7. I actually am not much of a fan of pork. Apart from ham, Spam and luncheon meat, I’m really don’t got out of my way to eat it. That said, I’ve seen these pre-packed crumbed meats at Coles. They do look good. I’ve previously bought the crumbed coated fish and pan-fried it for dinner – didn’t actually have to worry about the coating burning because at no point did it start to sizzle 😀 Happy start of summer Gaz 😀

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    1. Thanks, Mabel. Sounds like I will be enjoying your share of pork. I had a nice pork belly dish tonight. I think I’m enjoying a pork overload if that’s possible 😂😂😂
      I don’t mind buying the crumbed fish from Coles too. I tend to oven bake it to avoid an oily messy frying pan 😃
      I’m basically, a lazy cook.

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