Is there a difference between a ham and a gammon?

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I want to have a go at cooking a ham. All I could find in the supermarket are gammons.

Gammon is a cut of ham - a very good one IMHO. Go for the gammon!

thank you.

I did know it was all from a pig, just wan't sure if gammon was cured to give it a non-ham taste or something. I've never had gammon and chips in the pub!

No, gammon is delicious and is a more tender cut :)

I thought that an uncooked ham was a gammon, once its cooked, its a ham??

Both ham and gammon are cut from the hind leg of a pig.

The meat is the same but the preparation and treatment is different. Ham and gammon are both cured meats ie salted - that is why its called processed like bacon. And should be eaten sparingley.

The whole Ham is meat that is cut from the carcass and then treated. Gammon is a piece of meat that is cut from the carcass after the brining treatment. Usually a section of the leg which has had the bone taken out - boned and rolled.

There seems to be some confusion over cooked and uncooked - not the case. You can buy sliced cooked gammon in packs.