How do you cook your gammon?

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Just a box standard gammon. Nothing 'festive' - just so that it's not dry and chewy (like my last one was).

Do you anything fancy schmancy with yours or just bung it in and hope for the best?

Slow cooker in coke (full fat) or ginger beer

Quick and easy I wrap it in foil and bake, sometimes I do nigellas gammon in coke which is lovely!

Slow cooker for about 8 hours then an hour in the oven to finish it off.

Boil for a bit then finish in the oven.

My mum used to boil hers @JustlikeDevon but I never know how long to boil it/roast it for, how long do you do yours?

I've left it too late for the slow cooker now, for tonight.

Boil for 20 minutes per 450g, then half an hour in the oven with brown sugar and mustard glaze

If for e.g. it needed to be boiled for 2 hours, I would normally do 1 1/2 boiling and half hour oven. You can just boil it for the whole time. Off the top of my head it's 20/25mins per pound.

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It's nice in the slow cooker in coke or scrumpy cider then 10 minutes in the oven coated in black treacle with some cloves stuck in it.

cover base of slow cooker with a centimetre of soft brown sugar, place gammon on top and pile another layer of sugar on the top. Cook on low for 20-25mins/ pound.

Utterly yummy!

Boiled with a couple of bayleafs for approx 3 hours .

Put in a pan with cold water. Bring to boil. Pour out white foamy water and add cold water. Boil again. Repeat 3 times. This takes about 60-90 mins. Then put in the oven, pour over a little orange juice if you have it, for 50 mins then rest for 5-10.

I just boil the life out of mine for 2-3 hours. The longer the better. It's always really tender. Aldis joints are better than tescos by far.

Either slow cooked in cherry Coke, or baked under foil, with foil removed for last half hour, and a glaze applied then if I can be arsed.

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I put in pan of water, bring to boil, turn off take out of water then bake in foil ( taking foil off for last 30mins and maybe add a glaze- honey and mustard)

Slow cooker with a tin of pineapple chunks

Hairy bikers gammon with marmalade and mustard. Dead easy, delicious and moist every time.

Slow cooker with

20ml apple juice

or a can of coke

Or 200ml water and a table spoon each of honey and mustard.

*ignore timings, depends on slow cooker instructions.

Half the time simmered, half the time baked (wrapped in foil) then take out, strip,off skin, score fat into diamond shapes and brush with glaze of:
2 tbsp Dijon mustard
3 tbsp orange marmalade
Quarter teaspoon ground allspice (all one word and not to be confused with mixed spice)
2 oz Demerara sugar
Salt and pepper

Brush over fat, increase heat to 200c and return to oven for 15 mins.
This smells fantastic when cooking - in our house it's just not Christmas without this in the oven at some time on Christmas Eve.

NB glaze quantities are for a big piece (1 1/2 - 2 kg) which I always do since we'll be eating it for the next 10 days. Half would be plenty for a small,piece.
After first glazing you can also decorate with half orange slices fastened on with cloves, glaze again and return to oven for 10 mins but I don't bother any more since it's such a faff and most of the bits of orange used to slither off anyway.

boil in orange juice for biut hour to hour and half then drain add marmalade to out side and bake in oven for 30 min on med heat.

Bung in slow cooker with can of Pepsi max Cherry.

I cook it in a pressure cooker. A smallish joint (to feed 4-6 ish) takes about 20 mins but it doesn't matter if you cook it too long. Just the meat and a large mug of water in the pan.

I second Aldi joints. I just boil minr.

Smoked is much tastier than unsmoked if you don't want to go to the faff of a glaze. All mine needs is a good old boil.