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Topic: Dumb question= preserving a ham?

Posted By: DougG
Subject: Dumb question= preserving a ham?
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2021 at 8:54am

Hopefully hams will be on sale in the near future wanting to stock up so, was thinks can you freeze a 12 lb ham? Or how would one preserve one ?

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Posted By: allisbred
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2021 at 9:34am

Yes— you can freeze them and hold up well. Can be “canned” as well.

Posted By: TomC
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2021 at 9:53am

We freeze ours, I have half a beef & a whole hog in the freezer right now.

Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2021 at 10:39am

Have froze a number of them. Even the ones I cure at home.

Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2021 at 3:58pm

Cured smoked and hanging in a dry environment smokehouse is the best way I ever saw one kept. Wrapped in cheese cloth and would green over with some form of mold or fungus, cut the fat layer back, cut out the section of meat wanted and fold the fat layer back in green and all, Mold never passed further than the fat rind.

Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2021 at 5:53pm

Sounds like a country ham. For some there is non better. I don't have the proper environment to try it

Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2021 at 3:57am

Salt cured pretty well smoked until seriously dried to preserve, would keep hanging for a season where if did get bad could smell it as opened the fat rind, became food for the hogs that produced it.

Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2021 at 11:03am

I cut to usable portion size vacuum pack and freeze. They keep frozen for a long time.

Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2021 at 11:53am

I have tried zip lock bags- it only lasted 6 weeks and got a little tangy

Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2021 at 6:57pm

Major difference in a zip lock bag and vacuum sealing. The good vacuum sealers get ever bit of air out where in the zip lock you never get it all out. No oxygen and the spoiling process is slowed way down.

We have had vacuum sealed meat that was 5 years old and still real good. Not the thing to do as we have had less than a year old that was not so good. But that was caused by being careless and getting a pin whole in the package, let air into the package.

Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2021 at 6:01pm

Great point Ray ,, got a vacum sealer now !!

Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2021 at 1:24pm

We always keep all our stuff that going to be in the freezer for any length of time in a brown paper bag that helps keep freezer burn from happening