AIBU to ask about The Perfect Christmas Gammon......

[Travis1]

How do you do yours :0)

Shove it in the slow cooker with some veggie stock and BBQ sauce until it pulls apart.

I do love gammon!

Perfect Xmas gammon? Piers Morgan with an apple in his mouth. I'd pay a lot to see that.

The pioneer woman (check you tube!) has an amazing recipe..I am going to try it this year,,,Soak for 24 hrs to remove salt,oven it for 2hr 30 mins then glaze,,the glaze was raspberry jam and dijon mustard that was it! Then back in oven for 1hr 30 mins...leave to cool then slice. I am no nigella or pioneer woman but I reckon even I could have a stab at that one...

Doing ours in the pressure cooker in Guinness for an hour.

Then skin off, score and honey and mustard on and in the oven for 25 mins or so.

@mywifenow our gammon came from Asda. 5kg for £18 which I thought was quite reasonable.

I boil mine....i have a giant pan!

I put it in with water bring to boil and then throw that water away for fear of it being super salty. Put in fresh water with celery onion, orange, herbs, apple and random bits of spices (cloves, cinnamon fennel seed, coriander)
Bring that to the boil and then turn it right down and let it go for 15 mins a pound
Then once that's done I let it get to handling temperature, heave ho it out of the pan and concoct some sort of sticky sweet glaze, remove skin, score fat, poke in more cloves, smother the glaze over and give it long enough in the super hot oven to look glazed and delicious!

I can see DD's big garden trug, that is clean because it is used for holding her salty wet sailing gear only, being pressed into multiple Christmas uses this year.....

I am contemplating brining the turkey.

And now thinking that soaking the ham for a day would be good too.

I can do both (separately) with the trug sitting in the shower tray in the downstairs bathroom, so liquids can be easily poured away after. And then giving it enough of a thorough wash that DD won't hold it against me forever

If my gammon is still frozen could I pop it in water to soak until I cook it? Will that slow the defrosting process or make me give everyone the food poisoning?