can you buy ham that isn't cured in salt??

[nappyaddict]

i don't think you can but just checking!!

You could just cook your own from a butcher?

Smoked or air-dried? Will check in my big bloodstained carnivores book...

As far as I can tell, it seems that all ham is either dry-cured (in salt) or wet-cured (injected with brine). Smoking, air drying etc is done after the salt-curing rather than being a cure.

As MP says, you could bake/boil your own.

so if i get one from the butchers and cook it myself that won't have salt in it? i assumed the joints were cured before they were sold.

Am confused.

How do you make your own ham without curing it? So you buy a leg of pork, boil it, then..... you've got boiled pork surely, not ham.

I think cured in salt is pretty much the definition of ham.

Ham means the meat is salted.

that's what i thought peaches. i thought even if buy a big ham joint that has to be boiled it has already been cured...

We've just finished making our own hams ... You have to use salt otherwise it would go off, so no way round it as far as I can see.