from bluefairyguy:
when i was young, my grandmother always used to cook ham...
to remove salt in cured ham, let it soak in water for 24 hours... prior to cooking.
also, she sometimes slow-boil it in low wood fire to speed up the removal of too much salt in the ham, thus cutting the cooking time in half.
Ham that comes with salt in the meat can be moist cooked on a suspended rack above a pan to collect drippings. Throughout cooking, keeping the ham moist with water, etc will "wash out" as much salt as possible into the pan below. The final result may still be salty, but this is a good option to try.
I heard you can take salt of a ham by soaking it in water for 30 mins. I havent tried it yet but I might try it this Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2009
it is already cooked, but you cn boil it to remove some salt.
One way the ham is salty, the other it is not
According to CDC and FDA standards, the average ham has only 3 g of sodium. However, the actual amount of salt in ham depends on how the ham is prepared. Different methods result in different amounts of salt.
Ham-a Virginia ham is a salt cured ham. It is very good.
0.2% or 0.2grams of salt
It is not healthy for you. (Plus, salt is not healthy)
Not without destroying the ham. You could place the ham in a fresh water bath prior to cooking to draw out the salt, but I don't know how effective this would be.
It may but the ham will not taste good, better soak the ham in clean fresh water.
well salt ham is usually made for people who travel in ships way back in 1600's . first you have to get some ham put it in the fridge with a little bit of salt. after every 2-3 hours add maybe 20g of salt each time. as you do this you must keep doing this for 9 weeks so good luck. after like 4 weeks stop adding salt and forget about it. so good luck with your long kept ham. PS salty ham tastes bad.
I would suspect not. The only reason I can think of that you would need to salt a ham before cooking and eating it is if it is salt cured. (You soak it in plain water so that the process of osmosis will draw the excess salt from the salt cure process out of the ham and into the water.) If a ham is smoke cured, I can't see why it would have been salt cured as well. You could always take a quick small taste of the meat to make sure the salt content is not excessive, but I cannot imagine that it would be.
The meat from ham is normally from a pig unless it's turkey ham or vegetarian ham. Ham from pork is normally cured or can be roasted and will usually have salt and additional preservatives added to it. After it is all prepared it can then be eaten.
NO
Yes, the salt curing process will extend the life of the product but not forever.