Reducing Saltiness in Ham Slices

Have you ever had really salty slices of ham? If you are really sensitive to your ham being salty, there is a simple thing you can do. Before you cook up your ham slices, place the slices in a dish of milk for approximately 20 minutes. I know it sounds pretty crazy, but it works.

You are probably thinking that your ham will taste like milk, but it won't. The ham slices will not pick up the milk flavors. After you soak the slices of ham for around twenty minutes, rinse them off with cold water and dry them with a paper towel. It is a simple and effective way to cut the saltiness of your ham slices.

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Buying a Canned Ham

Here is a simple tip when you are buying a canned ham. If you are thinking about purchasing a canned ham, buy the biggest one you can afford. You may be asking why you need to purchase the biggest canned ham you can afford? Well, it is because the majority of smaller canned hams are made from bits and pieces of ham stuck together with gelatin.

Bits and pieces stuck together with gelatin, doesn't sound too appetizing to me when I'm eating a canned ham. So, if you are not into stuck together ham pieces, buy the biggest canned ham you can afford.

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How to Easily Remove a Ham Bone

I don't know about you, but I like to use my ham bone to make navy bean and ham soup, or split pea and ham soup. But sometimes cutting all that ham off the bone is a big pain. Having a bone in the ham makes it a lot tougher to carve as well. It would be a lot better if you could easily remove the bone. Well it can be really simple to remove the ham bone if you do it the right way. I'm going to give you a simple tip to making removing the ham bone a snap.

If you want to make removing a ham bone easy, follow my next set of instructions. Before placing the ham in the cooking pan, cut a slit in the ham lengthwise down the bone. Do not take the bone out at this point, you want it in the ham for cooking. While the ham cooks, the meat will start to pull away from the bone. So, once the ham it fully cooked the ham bone will be easy to pull out.

It is that simple to remove the ham bone. Now you can easily carve your ham and also use the bone for soups.

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Is Cured Ham Already Cooked?

Is cured ham already cooked? This is a question a lot of people ask when looking to buy a ham. This is especially true around the holiday season when more and more people are looking to get a ham. It is a very valid question for someone who has never purchased a ham before.

Cured ham is pork that has gone through a curing process to preserve the meat. There are many ways of curing meat, but for the most part the ham you purchase at your local grocery store is more than likely wet cured and smoked. The ham is soaked in a salt water brine as well as being injected with other ingredients such as sugar and sodium nitrate. Often times they are smoked as well.

Most of these cured hams are ready to eat and will be prominently label as such. They will have the cooking instructions right on the packaging as well. To prepare your cured ham you will just want to add a glaze and heat it up to 140 degrees.

So, for the most part, cured hams are pre-cooked and just need to be heated to 140 degrees, if they are not pre-cooked they will be label stating "cook before eating".

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