หมูบด

Explanation

The word combines หมู, meaning “pig” or “pork,” with บด, meaning “to grind” or “to crush.” It therefore describes pork that has been processed in a grinder. As an ingredient, it is normally measured by weight: หมูบดหนึ่งกิโล means “one kilogram of ground pork,” and หมูบดสองร้อยกรัม means “200 grams of ground pork.” Packaged products can also be counted with expressions such as หนึ่งแพ็ก, “one pack,” or หนึ่งถุง, “one bag.”

Usage

It is commonly used when buying pork at a market or supermarket, listing recipe ingredients, or describing the meat used in a dish. It often appears in discussions of wontons, meatballs, stuffed foods, and stir-fries.

Caution

Both หมูบด and หมูสับ may be translated as “ground pork.” More precisely, หมูบด is ground pork, while หมูสับ is chopped pork. The distinction matters when a recipe requires a particular texture.

1 ground pork synonyms

• หมูสับ

  หมูสับ can refer to pork chopped with a knife and may have a coarser texture. หมูบด tends to suggest pork processed more finely and evenly in a grinder, although the two terms often overlap in everyday use and product labeling.