Ham

[nlife]

Managed to find a butcher that sells unbrined pigs legs for ham and at a reasonable price here in Canada. Can get them bone in, skin on, or they can remove both for an extra fee. They are ~20lb in size, but they can cut to whatever weight you want. I've never been into ham, but my wife is. I did up a picnic shoulder with DaveO's ham recipe. Pretty damn good to say the least. This time, I'd like to do up the picturesque ham for the extended family. Are these typically skin on, bone in? How in the world would you cure such a large ham? I have a vacuum packer, but nothing this big.

Any suggestions for a second attempt at ham?

Neil

 

[SmokinEdge]

Skin off and bone in is best. Use Dave’s injection again. Just buy some plastic wrap and roll it up with a catch pan under to get any drips during cure. The ham will be perfect in 14 days and ready to smoke.

 

[nlife]

I've been surfing the net on how people usually cook these. Seems to be a bit of a toss up on the skin on/skin off. Last one I looked at, they took the skin off a pre-cooked ham and scored the fat. That one looked pretty damn good.

I'll definitely be doing Dave's injection again. Was just wondering how to deal with the sheer size. Plastic wrap and a drip tray makes sense.

Are these cooked to finish on the smoker, or do people pull at a certain temp and finish in the oven?

 

[SmokinEdge]

Are these cooked to finish on the smoker, or do people pull at a certain temp and finish in the oven?

Remove the skin to get smoke into the meat, the skin will block that. Personally I would finish in the smoker. But you can finish in the oven.

 

[pc farmer]

I do home grown hams. No skin and Dave's injection. Takes about 20 hours to get them at temp. But my hams average 30 lbs. All the time in the smoker

 

[Brokenhandle]

Love bone in hams! Not sure if it's it daveomak thread or not. But seems to me there's a thread that gives really good instructions on how and where to make sure you get good injection all around the bone. Just can't remember where. I know I was nervous as heck the first time I did one!

Ryan