LafayetteLady
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Joined: 5/2/2007 From: Northern New Jersey Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: SadisticMs2 It's a good price, but I personally prefer non-sliced - the sliced hams tend to be dryer. I paid 99 cents a pound for a ham butt today, and the shanks were even less (but too big for us). You can heat a ham in a crock pot but you're not going to get a "glaze" going per se because the glaze won't reduce down and caramelize in a crock pot. Yeah it's a good price for a spiral sliced (see bold underline above). But ask yourself how much effort does it really take to slice a ham? Plus the unsliced are about half that price this time of year. To be fair, I'm a bit of a whiz in the kitchen and I've got a lot of equipment.....so for me, taking apart a bone in ham is no problem. I just butchered down a rather large bone in rib roast yesterday into single bone 2 to 2.4 inch thick steaks. Yeah baby. If you don't have a good knife and some level of skills, I can see where carving one would be a problem and hence a spiral cut. None of my relatives seem to manage to actually be able to heat one through without totally drying it out, even with the nuclear red glaze crap. Then they try to cut it up with a $7 Walmart knife and rejoice that a spiral ham is JUST SO MUCH EASIER than a regular ham. As a non-religious person as well as someone adverse to nuclear red food, we'll be staying home this year. And eating moist, lovely real ham. I've never had the problem of a spiral sliced being dry. I like that they are pre-sliced, especially since years ago when trying to slice a ham, the knife slipped on the bone and I nearly sliced off my finger (no, I'm not great with a knife, I admit it, lol). I also like that all the slices are nice and thin with the spiral sliced. I just made a regular ham the other day, and the slices are all uneven and too thick for my liking, but still tasty.
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