what size ham?

[nothing2lose]

Lol. I get DP to get all of our meat much easier that way!

[Trillian]

Skybie, it usually feeds the 6 of us for about a week. If you were going to have a meal with it, I'd get a much larger one.

[Astrid]

Can never remember, DH tends to pick. The annual choosing of the ham is such stressful experience, I wish I could avoid it. Dh is always in search of the illusive perfect ham. I am sure every ham gets handled 10 times by him before he chooses.

In the past I have ordered to save the stress, but then the stress just moves to Christmas day. Heaven help me if it is bad ham

[onthefly]

As big as you can fit in your fridge.

[LimeSlice]

Can never remember, DH tends to pick. The annual choosing of the ham is such stressful experience, I wish I could avoid it. Dh is always in search of the illusive perfect ham. I am sure every ham gets handled 10 times by him before he chooses.

In the past I have ordered to save the stress, but then the stress just moves to Christmas day. Heaven help me if it is bad ham

As big as you can fit in your fridge.

Yep. That.

I get a full leg, not sure how big it is, but after we bake it and carve it, the left overs all get portioned up and shredded and frozen for pizzas and quiches' etc.

[skybie]

you have to bake it??? oh dear i am out of my depth here

[LimeSlice]

you have to bake it??? oh dear i am out of my depth here

Oh no no, you don't have to! You can take it out and carve that baby right there onto the plate if you want to

I glaze it and bake it in the oven on Christmas Eve and carve and serve it cold on Christmas Day.

[onthefly]

NOOOOOO! Don't bake it. That's ruining a perfectly good ham. You just eat it. By the handful. We had a practice ham this weekend. mmmmmm.

[skybie]

Oh no no, you don't have to!

phew!!

[nothing2lose]

Can never remember, DH tends to pick. The annual choosing of the ham is such stressful experience, I wish I could avoid it. Dh is always in search of the illusive perfect ham. I am sure every ham gets handled 10 times by him before he chooses.

In the past I have ordered to save the stress, but then the stress just moves to Christmas day. Heaven help me if it is bad ham

so, your DH is a Ham Handler?! I think we are married to the same man (except I'm not married to him). Christmas meats are a very serious business in this house. Very serious. Don't even get me started on the roast pork I don't get to touch it until it's on a fork entering my mouth.

Skybie, I only started baking and glazing my ham a few years ago and, oh my goodness, it is amazing!!! Really easy to do too. I highly recommend it

[Astrid]

I am actually not sure what is worse: the search for the elusive perfect Christmas ham or the search for the perfect fruit mince pie.

[nothing2lose]

I am actually not sure what is worse: the search for the elusive perfect Christmas ham or the search for the perfect fruit mince pie.

I make my mince pies. He has to say they are perfect

[LimeSlice]

Christmas meats are a very serious business in this house. Very serious. Don't even get me started on the roast pork I don't get to touch it until it's on a fork entering my mouth.

Oh, dear I am much to much of a control freak to let DH near my pork! lol I get the shakes just letting him cook a BBQ. Such a control freak

[meow]

So as a former vegetarian this is all news to me... what on earth makes a good ham or a bad ham??

[nothing2lose]

Oh, dear I am much to much of a control freak to let DH near my pork! lol I get the shakes just letting him cook a BBQ. Such a control freak

We are both control freaks here. We just have very clearly defined lines of demarcation. Pork is in the red zone for me. Except the ham. I am also occasionally allowed to cook bacon

[meow]

How can you tell if it's good by looking at it? I think this may be irrelevant to me though as we can't eat many cured meats... if you're talking about it being smoked then I'm thinking it's off the menu.

[Trillian]

Yeah, hams are usually smoked. But unfortunately you can't always tell by looking at it. We tend to get known brand ones like KR or Primo, but we did get a really nice woolies branded one once.