4505 Meats BBQ Seasoned Chicharrones, Fried Pork Rinds, Keto Certified, Family Size Bag, 14 Servings, 7 Ounce

Nice change of taste

I really enjoy 4505 Pork Rinds. These are a new(er) flavor as far as I can tell, and I like them.Quality: the pork rinds from 4505 are always consistently great. There are always at least a few of the rock hard pork rinds inside, which I used to be annoyed by until I found a friend that likes them, so I identify them, set them aside, and pass them along to my friend when I see him. Most of the rinds are fluffy and crispy, though, so I'm a happy camper.Heat: I routinely eat extremely hot peppers so these aren't "hot" to me. They do have a little heat, but it's not even a lingering build-up type heat, just a bit more heat than jalapeño and chili flavored 4505's. If you don't like heat at all, the chili flavor has the flavor but really none of the heat, and jalapeño is pretty close to that flavor profile with a little less salt. These have some minor heat and a little less of the flavor profile of the chili salt flavor, which is my favorite all-around. If I were stuck on a desert island with only 1 forever, I'd choose chili salt flavor, but if I could pick a ratio I'd go with 4 chili / 1 jalapeño / 1 en fuego.Bag: The bags on amazon are gigantic. I eat too many at one sitting and find the large size makes it difficult to assess total consumption, as I track calories religiously. I tend to prefer the smaller bags at the grocery store, especially when they're on sale the price / oz is about the same.

Why are these so expensive?

Once you buy these, you will never ever buy any other type of pork rind. This has an amazing flavor and you don’t need a bottle of water next to you to wash it down because it goes down smooth. One important thing is that it is also cooked in bacon or pork fat lard, which makes it more keto friendly than anything else. There are no preservatives and the taste of flavor is just amazing. I am never buying anything else.

I use the product I threw away the bag rest of the bags today. They were so awful that taste was awful. Some of them were so hard. You couldn’t even bite into them without breaking your tooth but they I opened the fresh bag today and it just smelled so rancid the oils were so old in that bag even though the expiration didn’t say till October so I don’t know how they got to smell that rancid without opening it, but I threw away 23 brand new bags and the one half bag that I opened and, I would never buy them again. I would never recommend them to anybody. They’re the worst product I’ve ever ever bought on Amazon and I know I’m not gonna get my money back. I wish I could, but it was a total waste of my money.

So I actually have been subscribed to getting a 7oz family bag of the jalapeño flavored every two weeks for a while. This is because I am straight up addicted to delicious jalapeño cheddar flavor. The store bought 2.5 oz bags are so airy and fluffy and the flavor is out of this world, you could easily (and I have) eat the whole bag in one sitting. BUT BEWARE the family size bags sent on Amazon are way different from the store bought 2.5 oz bags. The Amazon family pack pork rinds are much harder and are a lesser quality compared to the store bought 2.5 oz bags. Even though the pork rinds were of a lesser quality, I continued my subscription because there was a delicious silver lining to the Family sized bag. The Amazon family size bag would always have a great deal of jalapeño cheddar pork rind crumbs at the bottom of the bag which were equivalent to crack. Soooo good- soooo addictive - and way more crumbs/flavoring than in the 2.5oz bags. SO I was able to look past the lesser quality in pork rind. HOWEVER, the last bag I received had none of the flavorful crumbs at the bottom. In fact, it seemed like they forgot to add the jalapeño cheddar flavor all together. The last bag I received ended up with lesser quality pork rinds with none of the great flavor (equivalent to probably the plain UTZ pork rinds). This was the last straw, as I am paying 11$/bag so there should at the very least be some of that great jalapeño cheddar flavoring. Unfortunately, where I live they don’t have this brand in stores so I will not be buying this brand anymore. Just be aware that the Family size bag you get on Amazon is significantly different and you may pay 11$ for essentially crap pork rinds, as I did.

Light and crunchy with mild flavor. If I didn’t know they were BBQ flavor, I’d guess they were plain. I like to eat them with dash of Tabasco sauce and guacamole! Also heavenly when heated upIn oven for just 5-10 minutes at 350 degrees. Tomorrow I’m going to try to prepare them like low carb nachos.They don’t make your mouth dry like the ones you get at the grocery store. Although the bag seemed we pretty flat when it arrived, it was full of large pieces with very few crumbs. The only thing I’d like to change is the price. I’ll only order once a month or so as a treat, but would probably order twice as often it they were just a couple of bucks less expensive. Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum!!

I've purchased these twice at Whole Foods, but they only had two flavors, salt was delicious and had perfect texture, way better then the usual cheap brand, so i bought again. No jalapeño or cheddar flavor, just tasted like salt, very expensive and very disappointing.