Seen this on face book, Jeff Meeks, Assistant Market Manager of Food Depot came up with this ideal, thought I would past it on
Jeff says another take on a crown roast. Baby backs wrapped around a boneless loin. Dressed up, it sales great around the holidays. It's simple really. There are two parts. The boneless loin and baby backs. With the boneless loin you will do last because you will have to make it fit inside the ribs. Take the back ribs and peel the membrane off the back. your going to take the meat down a little on one side of them. I usually just take about an inch. Clean the bones up a bit and close the ends up making your circle. Take your boneless loin scoring it to be able to make a circle also to fit inside the ribs. You will have to figure out by trial and error the first time how big you need to cut the boneless loin. After getting that right you will take your knife and put a hole in the back ribs behind the end bones and tie that off. Then put another wrap of twine around the whole thing after putting it together pulling it tight. That's it. Remember, meat on the inside
a couple supermarkets use to do this around here- im for anything different,,,but i dont recommend this to my managers..
id rather they be the old fashioned crown roast makers
and i know, if you dont make a lot of crown roasts, these arent the favorites of many cutters,,but I do believe and see that the stores that do this the traditional way can sell over 50 of them
here's a very easy petite crown roast, most of the cutters today like a lot
its very easy to make and total retail is low and still have the eye appeal
i tried this 10 yrs ago and have been making them since- they've overtaken the traditional and fake ones, because they are small- less total retail
I think that's a good way to improvise if you don't have bone in pork loins and you have a customer wanting a pork crown roast. I'd explain to the customer that I can piece one together, but it will be different.
I love the idea when it's used for beef
I have seen beef crown roasts made this way and they look very nice when done properly. You put two boneless roasts in the middle and tie beef back ribs around it. The height of the roasts must be a little shorter than the bones are tall. I think the one time I did it, I used two slabs of 5 bones each. Makes a great display for holidays and grand openings (that's where I saw one). Very time consuming (espeially if you hand make the paper chop holders) and (can be) a little wasteful if made for display rather than being sold immediately.
I do believe Jeff has loss out to the Master piece created by Lisa Lyon using his ideal, She is the Meat Dept. Manager at Tipple Park Foods, Alberta, Canada