to think Mumsnet may have misled me?

[megandraper]

I have poured 2 litres of coca cola over a gammon joint and put it in a low-heat oven.

It looks, frankly, vile.

Mumsnet has promised me that in 5 hours time, it will transform into a feast of loveliness.

AIBU to have doubts?

Apparently the acid in the coke break up some of the fat and makes it tender. I've not tried it, but I'm going to do Vicarinatutu's gammon in brown sugar slow cooker recipe this week.

The gammon in sugar is lovely I did it on the weekend.

Im going for a cider ham next.

I do this a lot.

I usually chop an onion, sit the gammon on top, and then pour a bottle of coke over the top and leave to simmer away for a few hours. It really is lovely and a piece of piss.

I never bother with the Nigella glaze because it didn't work for me, but when the gammon has cooled a bit, I make a slapdash glaze of my own, either with chilli powder or paprika with honey, or boil up some cranberry sauce and a bit of booze in a pan til it bubbles like mad, and them tip over the top of the gammon and cook it in a hot oven for 10 minutes. Which all sounds like a hotchpotch of flavours but it really works. The coke just gives the ham a real savouriness I think.

I do it about once a month, eat some of it hot with wedges on the night, and then it sits in the fridge to be picked at for a few days.

UltraBOF - me too!! DH is a bit but I'm sure it will be lovely

Come on OP, how did it turn out? I need to know!!

Marking my place as intrigued by coca cola meets gammon shenanigans

Yes OP,how was it?

diet coke works well with chicken :)

Perhaps the OP has died of food poisoning. It must be something pretty bad to be so rude as to tempt us with all this talk of very tender gammon and then not come back to update us.

I'm going to get grief for joking about somebody dying of food poisoning, aren't I .

It's lovely. I use syrup for the glaze rather than treacle. Yum!

I need to know how this went! Come back OP'

put in some onions! onions! where are the onions???

and cheesy jacket potatoes are a meal, not a side. dear me.

What happens with all that caffeine?

yes, where is the OP. Bit telling that she's not back to rave about her delish ham isn't it?

head down the bog honking up ham-in-coke by any chance?

This is my DS all time favourite food. It is yum though am going to try Vicar's slow cooker recipe soon. Ginger ale you say?

Mumsnet is single handedly responsible for the death of an extra million piggies this autumn.

Perhaps OP has died of food poisoning

I'm starting to think we should send out a search party. And that I'm not sodding cooking gammon in coca cola.

Pickled d'you think OP may have got mixed up with the other coke thread?

I've done the gammon in sugar in the slow cooker. Fabulous.

I also have half a Chocolate Cola Cake (James Martin recipe) staring at me and daring me to scoff the lot [hwink]

Fellow

I am still alive, to the disappointment relief of many, I'm sure.

Had about 2 hours sleep last night (DD teething) and completely forgot I had started a thread

So, to report back. The ham was really delicious. Doesn't taste of coke (either variety) at all - just really tender and with loads of flavour.

I'll definitely be doing it again. Will try putting an onion in next time. Didn't bother with any glaze, literally just put gammon joint in a casserole dish, poured 2 litres of full-fat Coca Cola over the top, brought it to a gentle simmer and then put the lid on and stuck it in the Aga simmering oven (about 70 degrees C) for 5 hours. I imagine a slow cooker would be exactly the same.

DH and DS1 (age 5) loved it. DS1 is now refusing to eat any sliced ham out of a packet, because he wants 'real ham' instead.

DS2 (3) and DD (1) weren't so keen, but he's practically vegetarian and she's teething so don't think it was the ham's fault.

Might do this for Boxing Day to supplement leftover turkey.

I do the ham and cider every year at Christmas. Keep hold of the liquid and you make a lovely pea and ham soup. It's getting all WI on here

i chuck mine in the slow cooker

has anyone heard of "epic pork"

amazing!

parno please can you point me in the direction of the ham and cider recipe please? That sounds fab (and the soup with the leftover liquid too)

Thank you [hsmile]