Boneless pork butt for ham

[nate85]

I came across some boneless pork butts for a good deal. I was going to brine cure some with pops brine for ham. Will they make nice ham?

 

[crankybuzzard]

I came across some boneless pork butts for a good deal. I was going to brine cure some with pops brine for ham. Will they make nice ham?

I like the way they come out.  It won't be exactly like the ham you're used to, but the flavor is very good.  

I would suggest injecting the cure into the butt in several locations before submerging it into the brine/cure.  I'd also go for 3+ weeks to make certain you get a good cure.

Let us know how it goes!

 

[browneyesvictim]

Yes. Those boneless butts are what I use for making Buckboard Bacon with Pops brine. I'm sure they would be good left together as a ham of sorts. The way they are fillet open to remove the bone, you are left with kind of a butterflied and fragmented piece of meat rather than much of a solid muscle-no more than a few inches at any thickest part. There was a post a day or two ago that a member glued it back together with "meat glue" aka- Transglutaminase.

 

[nate85]

Thanks guys I'll give it a go. First I've heard of meat glue. Going to have to google that haha