Ham for Thanksgiving questions

Dawgtired

Do y’all order your hams on line or do you have any recommendations on a brand? What size will fit on a large egg. Finally… any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank You!

Legume

I usually just get the spiral sliced ham from Costco and then heat and smoke it up a little on the egg and doctor up a baste and glaze for it.

fishlessman

carando or cooks from the supermarket or pick up an appleton farms from aldis. i tend not to buy the spirals but if i do i cook it sideways in juice and rotate the slices in the juice as it cooks. the aldis get picked over quick so you need to get it sooner than later. the aldis are cheap, usually a buck a pound. these three dont taste as salty as most commercial brands

Botch

I've really enjoyed Harrington's corncob-smoked hams:
https://www.harringtonham.com/boneless-hams/boneless-hams
Been awhile since I last ordered one, however.  

johnmitchell

We have always used Honey Baked Hams in Greensboro it’s a spiral cut ham and is delicious.Around Thanksgiving and Christmas it’s crazy busy and the local city police are called in to direct traffic 

lousubcap

Wherever you land, below is a link to a great ham recipe by @egret:

Maple-Bourbon Ham 

TechsasJim

My wife does the full Honey Baked hams deal as well.   IF HEB has Prime Rib Roasts out by then I'll do one of those as well but otherwise I'll gladly let it be turnkeyed.    Between football and a couple birthdays Thanksgiving weekend we are always busy and I'd rather take it easy then cook too much.

fishlessman

johnmitchell said:

We have always used Honey Baked Hams in Greensboro it’s a spiral cut ham and is delicious.Around Thanksgiving and Christmas it’s crazy busy and the local city police are called in to direct traffic 

ive seen one delivered from an hour away in a taxi, cant imagine how much that all cost they are good, do you do the double smoke cook or eat it as is. hard to resist reheating those, its perfect as is

johnmitchell

fishlessman said:

johnmitchell said:

We have always used Honey Baked Hams in Greensboro it’s a spiral cut ham and is delicious.Around Thanksgiving and Christmas it’s crazy busy and the local city police are called in to direct traffic 

ive seen one delivered from an hour away in a taxi, cant imagine how much that all cost they are good, do you do the double smoke cook or eat it as is. hard to resist reheating those, its perfect as is

Just as it is 😋

Elijah

Honey baked is hard to beat. Be warned that at least at my location the "prepared by" or "pick up" time is only a very rough estimate. It's ready when you get the email saying it's done.

lkapigian

Bone In Country Ham Cured , uncooked Edwards Virginia Country Ham

RRP

Like fishless said I prefer Cook’s and never buy a spiral cut since I like to inject mine with maple syrup. Just remember these hams are precooked so all you are doing is reheating them.

caliking

There are some great ways to do a ham on the BGE. Egret's is posted above, and @Mickey 's is also simple and delicious. @Dyal_SC did one recently that looked stellar. 

Mickey

NAKED HAM / SMOKE ONLY

Let me start that for the first  years i have only cooked Egerts Ham (this is an outstanding ham Egged on the BGE). 

 

 20 years ago went looking for (did not know this at the time) a naked ham / smoke only.  Looking at 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: lots of Sugar Maple wood. Cooked at 300 till 135. I did score the ham deep. Cooked indirect.

New item: just did spiral ham and turned out fine. 

 

wwinnc

@Dawgtired- Like your signature line!! So true.  Good luck with the ham, please post results!

shtgunal3

All good suggestions above. Kentucky Legend is a good choice also. Score the top in cross hatch pattern and smoke only or glaze toward the end.

shtgunal3

RRP

Mickey said:

NAKED HAM / SMOKE ONLY

Let me start that for the first  years i have only cooked Egerts Ham (this is an outstanding ham Egged on the BGE). 

 

 20 years ago went looking for (did not know this at the time) a naked ham / smoke only.  Looking at 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: lots of Sugar Maple wood. Cooked at 300 till 135. I did score the ham deep. Cooked indirect.

New item: just did spiral ham and turned out fine. 

 

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Glad to see you are still with us, ole buddy!!!

dcc

I used to get the honey baked ham.  Started getting the Snake River Farms ham a couple years back.  No fancy glaze or spiral slice.  Just a great ham.  Their 25% off ham sale just ended last night.