Very important survey question: Do you use butter or oil to fry leftover Xmas ham?

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DH is having conniptions. Apparently this is a very important issue. Please help settle this dispute about which is more common.

I've never even heard of anyone frying ham before (leftover from Christmas or otherwise) so this is a non-starter for me. Why would you fry ham?!!

Frying ham? Never done that. Although apart from an egg I don't fry anything.

You don't! You keep it in the fridge and nibble it every time you poke your head in for spurious reasons

I don’t fry ham either. We eat leftover ham cold or in rissoles, frittata or bubble and squeak type dishes.

Never fried ham as we either have the ham warm from oven or cold on following days.

Frying ham!? 🤮

What now?? Frying ham??? Is that a thing? Why on earth are you frying it?

I heat slices of ham in my cast iron skillet, but I don't use any butter or oil.

Butter. Obviously.

You mean you cook it twice? Boiled and then fried? Sounds like it's going to be more like greasy biltong than anything else.

Frying ham? Are you on glue?

Ickk, why would you fry it?! That’s just bizarre, never heard of anyone doing that before

You boil ham? I bake it in the oven.

Well obviously you would use duck or goose fat, or lard, but in the absence of any of those, I'd probably use oil. Butter is fine too though, although I think you're not supposed to use butter for frying because it burns too easily?

One of my favourite parts of Christmas Dinner is all the leftovers. I normally fry up leftover roast potatoes and pigs in blankets (make extra and hide from BIL if necessary) for breakfast at least once, so I don't see why you can't stick some ham in there too if you have it.

I have never heard of fried ham in my life!
I boil the ham, then glaze it and finish it in the oven - deeeeeeelicious!

Always boil the ham here before baking, it keeps it moist.

But I don't know why people are acting like they've never heard of fried ham.

It's just like bacon, so good for breakfast, or ham/egg and chips type meals.

Well DD16 wanted to make herself a bacon and egg sandwich. Someone had finished all the bacon, so she used ham instead. DH lost the plot because she used butter instead of oil, and according to him, that is "wrong". Apparently he knows at least 10 people who fry ham in oil, and no-one in their right mind would use butter. He can't or won't name the 10 people he knows who fry in oil, but according to him butter-frying is an abomination. So, we want to know who would use butter or oil? What about if it was just bacon? Or just eggs?

I prefer frying in butter. I think it tastes more scrummy than oil.

If I have ham egg and chips the ham is cold and when I worked in a cafe we had one customer who had ham, egg and chips every Saturday and his ham was served cold too. Ham isn't like bacon because it's already cooked. If I did want to heat it up I think I would just warm it in a dry pan, which is no help to you at all. It doesn't need to be cooked again so it just needs to come to the temperature you want to eat it.
Lot's of people have clearly never heard of frying ham by itself as opposed to using it an ingredient n something fried so I don't understand the disbelief that it's an unusual thing to do. Something at the back of my head suggests it might be Irish? It sounds like something that would be part of an Ulster Fry, everything else that can't run away is .

Ham is cooked.
Bacon/gammon isn't cooked.

Ham isn't reheated in our house, have it cold.
Gammon for 'ham eggs and chips' is cooked.

I googled and it comes as little surprise to me that country style fried ham is a thing in the US. They fry everything. Fried pickles, fried Brussels sprouts as an appetiser, anything out of the sea is battered and fried etc etc. I'm Scottish but I have never seen as much fried food as there is in New England. The British have a reputation for boiling veg to death, in the US its either fried or roasted in oil in the oven.

Personal preference surely? I don't like frying in butter because it's too rich for me but I don't think it's wrong.

(Frying ham is wrong though! )

The great ham debate

But why do you have 'leftover Christmas ham' a week before Christmas?