Bought the wrong ham, need cooking suggestions

ratcheer · December 2012

We wanted to cook a particular recipe for New Year. It calls for a ready-to-cook ham and specifies NOT a fully cooked one. We looked at hams in the store until we were blue in the face, and still managed to come home with a fully cooked ham. We went ahead and injected it and rubbed it as instructed, but I want to ask how I should modify the cooking instructions.

The recipe calls to cook it at 300 for about 20 mins per pound. Since our ham is already fully cooked, I assume I can cook it less than that, but the question is, how much less? Do I just cook it until it looks nice and go ahead and pull it off, knowing it is already fully cooked?

Tim

Pjoe · December 2012

I would just cook it to an internal temp 130-140. All you need to do is warm it up.

MrCookingNurse · December 2012

Expect about 3-5 hours at 250

Mickey · December 2012

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Mickey · December 2012

NAKED HAM / SMOKE ONLY Let me start that for the past 6 years i have only cooked Egerts Ham (this is an outstanding ham Egged on the BGE). A short while ago went looking for (did not know this at the time) a naked ham / smoke only. Thank you Wayne (Thirdeye)for the hand holding. Also thanks to Richard and Gary (Village Idiot)and Kent and Chubby for all the emails and calls on other ways to do a ham w/o the burbon, maple syrup, brown sugar, no anything. Guys this was outstanding ham. It tasted like ham. It was a 7 lb Cooks ham (shank) and NOTHING was put on it (Nothing). Just smoke: both lots of pecan and cherry chunks. Cooked at 300 till 145/155. I did score the ham deep. Was cooked indirect.

fishlessman · December 2012

should be fine the way your cooking it, just get it off the grill by 140 internal. the recipe i use with an injection is 275 25 min a pound, after the internal hits 140 it will rise to 145 at the table

ratcheer · December 2012

Alright, I didn't think it would be any problem, but it was best to check first. My plan is indirect at 275-300 with a drip pan until it looks good.

Thanks!
Tim

ratcheer · January 1

After the fact: I ended up cooking it the full 20 mins per pound at 275-300. It was awesome. The meat did not get dried out and the outside was just right.

Tim

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