Pig out at all-you-can-eat carnitas picnic in Guerneville The meal from chef Jorge Saldana includes carnitas straight out of the cazo served with homemade tortillas, salsas and accompaniments.

Carnitas Estado de Mexico, or Mexico State carnitas—they don’t really have a name—is out on the weekends frying pork slowly in a stainless steel cazo, or large pot. They’re located just ...

The Acosta family makes its carnitas in large copper cazos, cooking the buche, cueritos and bone-in pork butts in seasoned lard. Romulo “Momo” Acosta learned how to make carnitas from his ...

Case in point: Carnitas Lonja and Carnitas Don Raúl-USA, which opened in 2017 and 2019, respectively. The latter has had to double the size of the cazo inside its truck to keep up with demand ...

Unlike a normal pot, a cazo has a smaller, flat bottom and gets wider on top. With the cazo, Sanchez cooks the pork with manteca, a type of lard used in lots of traditional Mexican dishes.

El Cazo takes its name from the large copper pots used for cooking carnitas, chicharrones and other Mexican specialties that require time and even heat. Fans of traditional Mexican dishes can ...