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Tip for preping steaks

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AnnieS

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16-12-2020, 12:37 AM

Re: Tip for preping steaks

Apparently a variation is ham glazed with coffee and brown sugar. It's quite fascinating what people end up doing with their ham to make it tender and tasty.

d00d

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17-12-2020, 09:25 AM

Re: Tip for preping steaks

Polish and Portuguese pork are superior quality & taste.

QUOTE=AnnieS;2004507]Is this because others put hormones or antibiotics into the animal?

I noticed that a lot of regular food bought in supermarkets in Portugal tasted pretty good, as though there are less additives. [/QUOTE]

.... may have something to do with it.

bakerman

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17-12-2020, 10:43 AM

Re: Tip for preping steaks

Originally Posted by Dextrous63 ->

On the related subject of ham...has anyone done that thing of boiling it in coke first for a couple of hours before squirting honey/syrup (with maybe some cloves stuck in) over it and finishing it off in the oven?

Never understood the purpose of the coke. Have used it and also plain water, with there being no difference in final flavour nor texture.

I have never actually boiled a ham for hours prior to baking it. However, I have baked my hams with cross-hatch cuts and stuck whole cloves in the cuts and then baked it low and slow and basted it with coke. Yummy !

Dextrous63

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18-12-2020, 10:26 PM

Re: Tip for preping steaks

Originally Posted by bakerman ->

I think the idea of boiling it is to replace the long time in the oven cooking it through at a lowish temp (saw one tv cook wrapping a ham in 3 layers of foil, blasting it for 30 mins in oven before a long cooking of 6-10 hours on low depending on size). Covering it with something to glaze it is quick, and water is unlikely to penetrate the ham anyway.

AnnieS

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18-12-2020, 11:55 PM

Re: Tip for preping steaks

Sorry to keep on the ham rather than steak conversation, but this is fascinating because as a result the thread I was hungrily looking at a gammon joint in sainsbury's yesterday. Just wondering - smoked or unsmoked and reasons for the choice?