Ever tried doing your own ham?
By pepai123456
@pepai123456 (879)
Philippines
December 4, 2011 12:50am CST
Christmas is near and ham will be very common on the christmas table.I'm wondering if anyone has ever made their own ham in their own home.Anyone can share their ideas and experience on making one.How hard is it to make? does it really take few days to cure the hind legs of the pork? What if i don't have a smoker?
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6 responses
@tamirs (1807)
• Philippines
4 Dec 11
I know how to make homemade ham but I don't know how to make a homemade ham if you don't have a smoker so i suggest you just buy a frozen one in the market.Anyways making one eats a lot of time so you can just devote the time into making some stuffs of your specialty.. :-D
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@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
4 Dec 11
Hehe me too ill be making sweets isn't it exciting.
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@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
4 Dec 11
Thank you for your suggestion...
yeah i guess i will just stick to the frozen one, will I'm not planning to make anyway I was just wondering how hard it would be without the smoker...anyway, I think ill just stick to my specialty =) bake bake bake!
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@marguicha (222389)
• Chile
4 Dec 11
I love to cook, but I would never try to do something so difficult. I have realised that I enjoy only what I can do that it is within my power. Somking ham sounds more than what I would dare to start. Take care!
@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
4 Dec 11
thank you for your response.
I know right... sometimes we love to do the things we are comfortable to do... but try new stuff wouldnt hurt... but not this kinda tough situation.
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@marguicha (222389)
• Chile
4 Dec 11
Smoking ham is among the tings I won´t try to do. It ccomes along with making shoes or studying physics
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
4 Dec 11
Hello pepai and welcome to mylot. I have never tried to make a ham. I have done some research and it seems that there are two ways to do it. One is smoking and that takes months and the other is to soak the ham in a salt brine in the fridge. You also have to use a fresh ham. Here are some web sites that tell how to do it. I think I might try it some time.
http://homesicktexan.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-cure-ham.html
http://johndlee.hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Cure-Ham-at-Home
http://schmidling.com/ham.htm
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@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
4 Dec 11
Hi deebomb I really like the first link I never thought you can bake the fresh ham out of brine.
Thank you I might tell this to my dad.
have a great day
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@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
4 Dec 11
Well someone already shared some bakeable ham version my father might try it.
Me either I think i cant accomplish it my self really don't like working with meats XD.
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@beamer88 (4259)
• Philippines
4 Dec 11
I haven't tried curing or smoking ham, and I don't think I would. I feel it's a complicated thing :) And like you, I don't even have a smoker. I do however tried making my own beef or pork jerky as well as bacon cured with salt only. That's about it though. My busy schedule seems to be a hindrance to making my own food :)
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@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
4 Dec 11
the smoker is really the weirdest and hardest stuff to get stuff if you don't cure meat that much...
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