How Much Ham?

[Tinhack]

What's wrong with meat flavor?

That's what I tell my BIL every time he ruins a good piece of meat with onions, garlic, sugar, mustard or whatever. I end up cutting off the outside or choke on the garlic infused roast. I guess I'm just too caveman. Flash-burn a steak over Mesquite or Hickory coals and I'm in heaven.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Won't work for Christmas but: A friend of mine would gather Maple sap for syrup in the spring. For syrup this is reduced about 95% or 20:1 (sometimes 98 or 99%). But for hams he would reduce just 40 to 50% and the boil the ham in that! Then you do the Pineapple and mustard treatment in the oven to crisp it up. As a kid mom always put a cherry in the center of the pineapple rings! This is the only fruit and meat combo I will eat! All others pale in comparison!

Ivan

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

You guys were killing me! I had to log off, get in the freezer, get out some ham from this Thanksgiving and whip up some ham, potatoes and eggs! Life is now so much better!!!

Ivan

 

[vonn]

Never had ham that I couldn't eat! Left over ham sandwiches are great!

 

[DWalt]

And in South Texas, tamales are also traditional Christmas fare.

 

[Salty RI]

Coming from a big Italian family, growing up Christmas Eve was when the whole family got together to EAT, and I mean EAT. We would all show up at one of the designated Aunts homes around 2:00- 3:00 in the afternoon and by 4 -4:30 the food would start coming. Course after course of spaghetti, lasagna, calimar, stuffed baby squid in marinara, meatballs, Italian sausage and fried peppers, deep fried smelt, scallops wrapped in bacon,shrimp scampi, salads of all sorts and the deserts!!! All leading up to Midnight Mass at St.Marys. Man I miss those days. We were full for days. Christmas Day dinner at home was usually a small baked ham cooked by mom, left to cool for a couple of hours to make sandwiches on fresh Italian bread.

What time is dinner.

 

[Tom S.]

10 - 12 pounds, depending on the number of side dishes. Always better to have to much than not enough. I really like the Honey-Baked spiral sliced hams.

Not only as a main dish, but also as left over sandwiches and diced into split pea soup.

 

[Marshwheeling]

In Texas, H-E-B has their own spiral sliced hams. Honey Baked is more expensive, but I doubt it is any better.

I personally prefer ham to turkey, but my wife does not like ham. She is the only person I know that doesn't. So we always have turkey at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Her opinions seem to always have priority.

Split the difference. Serve porketta.

 

[Salty RI]

How about ham and egg's for breakfast.

 

[Jessie]

I agree with what's been mentioned above. Don't be remembered for not getting a big enough ham to feed everyone!
Ham leftovers are fantastic and will not last long enough to go bad.
12 lb. minimum, and probably a little bigger if it's a bone in.
It's Christmas, splurge!!

 

[Mack_C85]

How big is the oven?? No such thing as too much ham.

We have a somewhat small wall oven, I'm always wondering if "just fits" = "big enough?"

 

[vytoland]

My daughter is counting on 14 people for Christmas dinner. She's going to have ham instead of the traditional turkey. I volunteered to supply the ham. I'm new at this business; how big a ham should I get for 14 people?

i would get 10 pounds of KRAKUS ham..... dont forget the horseradish.....

 

[DWalt]

We have a somewhat small wall oven, I'm always wondering if "just fits" = "big enough?"

We have a 24" built in kitchen oven, I don't think they are made any smaller than that, and it's been big enough for any need we ever had. My wife would like a 30", but it would be a major structural problem to mount it in our kitchen, would have to rip out a wall and rebuild to accommodate it. Last year I had to replace the old 24" oven (too old to get parts for), and it was difficult to find one that would fit. It came down to only one brand, a GE, that would fit, and it had to be special ordered. Prices on double ovens are unbelievable.

 

[Mack_C85]

We have a 24" built in kitchen oven, I don't think they are made any smaller than that, and it's been big enough for any need we ever had. My wife would like a 30", but it would be a major structural problem to mount it in our kitchen, would have to rip out a wall and rebuild to accommodate it. Last year I had to replace the old 24" oven (too old to get parts for), and it was difficult to find one that would fit. It came down to only one brand, a GE, that would fit, and it had to be special ordered. Prices on double ovens are unbelievable.

That's probably how big ours is.

My wife has her grandmother's roaster that with the rack on the bottom rung, has about an inch of clearance all the way around. We've done up to an 18 lb. Turkey, and it would probably take a little bigger, but it would be close.



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[JohnRippert]

Diced ham and mac&cheese.