No one. I’ve had spiral hams costing a farthing and ones whose cost took my breath away. They are all too dry unless you douse them with some invariably oversweet sauce. Give me a reasonably priced Hummel ham (New Haven, CT) and I’ll slice it myself.
I like cut thick slices of ham so I buy Cook's & cut it up myself. I've had very good luck with Cooks. I buy them when the price drops after holidays, cut it into slices and chunks, then freeze it in Seal-a-Meal bags. It's always nice to pull a bag out of the freezer for adding to soups, baked beans, & omelets. The bone is great for bean soup stock. When the bone has done it's work the dog gets it. Even the extra fat is melted down to flavor cornbread, vegetables, casseroles or fried hash browns. Ham is a great value, imo. ❤🐷
I buy spiral hams on sale every holiday for .89 a pound. I make my own glaze with orange juice, brown sugar, pineapple juice and marachino cherry juice with cloves and cinnamon. They are always delicious.
My Mom always bought a whole ham, pig-skin and all.....She would half cook it and then remove the skin most of the fat and then came the glaze, the pineapple slices, the cherries and the cloves and in the oven it went to finish cooking......With all those flavors the raisin gravy was spectacular........
Smithfield Ham is no longer the American traditional company we remember. Smithfield Foods is now Cinese owned. I grew up on a farm where traditional smoking processes were used. These chemical laced hams are unnatural.
I think most Americans don't know that Smithfield got bought by a Chinese corporation in 2013. Support Hatfield, an American brand company based in Pennsylvania.
The sale of Smithfield to China's WH Group for $4.7 was the largest Chinese takeover of an American company, now 80% of Chinese owned farmland is owned by Smithfield foods. How was that sale possible? Hillary Clinton was instrumental in greasing the way (remember she is also a lawyer) for the Chinese businessmen (they are the same people associated with billionaire Wang Wenliang who is in fact closely linked with China's CCP party's highest members (who are known as those with portfolios). Rilin Enterprises (which is run by Wang Wenliang) donated $2 million dollars to the Clinton Foundation in 2013. I have to note that I vote 100% Democratic (especially since Jan. 6th) despite by extreme dislike for the Clintons, I would even vote for her today, being that she is the lesser of the two evils when it comes to her or the Republicans.
@@frankkolton1780your political leanings and voting record are irrelevant to the topic, but thanks for pointing out that you are not able to make wise choices.
As an Army National Guard sergeant, I once had to confer with one of my corporals, also a good friend, on the job, who worked at Honeybaked Hams. I found him wearing a big rubber apron, a blowtorch in one hand, and a three inch paintbrush in the other, alternately blasting and basting a number of hams! At a time when HBH hams were a valued gift, and a frequent employer's holiday bonus handout. Harry and David?!? At $12.24 a pound ?!? Let's face it: Ham ain't steak!!!
I won't say it is the best, but if you want a great grocery store ham. Hormel Cure 81 is always very good. If you want to spend a fortune on a ham, you could no doubt find a better one. How you warm the ham up makes a huge difference too.
Costco’s Mastercarve ham is amazing. They used to include a pouch of some black berry sauce. I can’t remember what berry, but it was the best I ever had!
Honey baked ham's claim to fame was a patent for a bone-in spiral-slicer. They were the only ones that had it until that patent expired in the late 70's or 80's. Because the slicing made the sauce get into all of the nooks and crannies, there was no other like it. But once that patent was gone...everybody did it. Now it is ordinary.
Nathan's isn't American anymore. They're owned by Smithfield which is owned by a Chinese corporation since 2013. Support Hatfield, higher quality and a true American brand based in Pennsylvania.
My experience is - whether the ham is moist or dry depends entirely how you reheat it. Put it in a turkey roaster, on the tray, with water in the bottom. Don't leave it forever uncovered in the oven. Glaze it when you're about to serve it.
I have eaten a lot of brand name hams. I usually buy hams from our local supermarket Food Lion. I usually buy a few few when they go on sale. The hams are not salty l usually use my own home made glaze. I also buy smoked hams.
Omaha Steaks are top notch quality meats. I used to order there for my dad on occasion. I recently got a Sam's club ham and it is delicious, juicy and not too fatty. My puppy loved the soup bone. I am sure the Omaha Steaks would be better but too expensive for me now lol.
You didn't mention that Honey Baked is the original spiral sliced ham. Harry J. Hoenselaar invented the spiral slicing machine in 1936. He got it patented in 1944. For years he tried to sell the machines to meat companies but they all turned him down. So in 1957 he opened the first Honey Baked store in Detroit. Harry was no longer trying to sell the machines, reserving them for his own business. As the popularity of spiral sliced ham grew, the other companies had to sit and wait on all the patents to expire, kicking themselves over all the money they threw away when they could have been selling spiral sliced hams.
Chinese billionaire owner Wan Long, who took a small Chinese state-owned meat processing plant and expanded it into a multinational company with more than $24 billion in annual sales. Now, the owner of Nathan's Famous hot dogs and Cook's ham. In 2013, WH Group (formerly known as Shuanghui International Holdings) purchased Smithfield for $4.7 billion; including debt, the deal valued the firm at $7.1 billion, then the largest acquisition of a U.S. company by a Chinese business. WH Group went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange a year later, and furthered its American presence by buying Clougherty Packing, California's largest pork processor, in 2017.
As much as I like Smithfield, and Harry and David, I still pick Boars Head. If you guys haven't tried Boars Head, I will challenge you to pick it up next time. You won't be disappointed.
I don’t buy ANY pre-sliced ham like to cut my own. The first I had was dry, the second stunk like a place it was raised. Only like hams that I cut myself. Cooks hams have consistently been good for me. Hy Vee a store brand also is quality product.
Most of the time I buy Harris Teeter store brand spiral ham. Smithfield if it’s on sale. Price paid is usually $3-4 per pound. Tricks to keeping it moist & delicious: Don’t heat it until you’re ready to eat it. Don’t add the sugar/honey packet. You really don’t need the extra calories.
Here’s my glaze recipe that always win rave reviews from family and friends. 2 cups brown sugar….1/2 cup white sugar……mix together till well combined……drizzle maple syrup (the real stuff) over the sugars until you get a thick mud mixture. Don’t let it get runny. In cooking remember, you can always add, but you can’t take away. Put about a third of the mixture on the ham as you cook it. Put the next third 20 minutes before you take it out of the oven, then add the remaining mixture on the ham as it rests and torch it till it becomes bubbly and crispy. It is very good.
Next time you do a review of hams and other smoked products add New Braunfels Smokehouse of New Braunfels TX to your list. I have bought smoked meats from them at Christmas time for my family and friends and have always received compliments ion their products. I' am anxious to see how they stack up to other brands. I have also wanted to try some of the products from D Artagnan as I have followed them on the net and have heard good things about them.
Honey baked used to be the best. Hands down. Always. It’s the only one we’d buy because no one else made anything close to it. But I won’t buy it anymore. The last few years, it’s so bad, I threw most of it away or gave it to the dogs. I’ll never buy one again.
I buy 2 spiral glazed hams a year at least. I get them at a huge discount due to store's holiday special that is reached with purchases. I pay 50 cents per lb for cooks which I have had great luck with. Hams end up costing around $7 or $8
Yeah, Honey-Baked Ham failed to apply a promised discount for a large on-line order, failed to contact me despite multiple on-line attempts, and when I called customer service, they told me they could only help with in-store problems ... as if they were separate companies. They're too expensive to put up with such poor service. (And the sides are even more pricy for what's delivered.)
I hate spiral cut hams. The ham is sliced too thin. It dries out very quickly. It's so thin if you try to reheat it then it just burns up. It's awful. Stop being lazy and slice the ham yourself. It's so much better.
I hate precut spiral hams. I like and need to control the thickness of the slices. I find spiral to be too thick for sandwiches and too thin for ham steak recipes. Anyone can whip up ham glaze.
I only buy Cade's Cove hams. They're not the cheapest - but they're the BEST ham you can get. They aren't spiral cut though, which is fine by me because of the way I cook a ham. First thing with cooking any ham is to throw away the glaze. There's only two seasonings that should ever grace a ham: smoke and pepper. I cook my hams on my Weber charcoal grill using the rotisserie attachment. Soak some fruit wood chips in water for about an hour, get the coals good and hot (leave the center of the grill bare of coals), and spin the ham for about 3 hours. Every 15-20 minutes, throw a handful of the soaked wood chips on the coals. The smokiest, juiciest, tenderest, and most delicious ham you'll ever eat.
I buy my ham at the local market. The quality is superb, I know exactly where it comes from, and the price is reasonable. Why would I buy anywhere else? Cheers!
I buy a Honey Baked Ham for Christmas every year and then smoke it at home for about 3 hours right before serving. The extra smoking just before serving makes it the talked about item of the day every year.
I don't buy spiral because you always have to heat it up and no matter how you cook it, it ends up like thin slices of shoe leather Ill slice it myself
I don't buy Honey Baked ham any more, but not for the reason you think. I would take it to my Mom's house and she would insist on cooking it until it was hot. In doing so all of the yummy glaze, the best part would melt off and lay in the pan. I swore never to buy it again, at least not to where I would take it there. Her insistence in having all of her food piping hot has probably led to her eating something she shouldn't at restaurants, but that's what you get when you're ridiculously picky.
Avoid Smithfield. They sold to a giant Chinese corporation in 2013. If you want to do a deep dive, look into China's counterfeit foods. It's all about producing the cheapest quality for big profits.
Don’t listen to them……honey baked ham is absolutely fantastic……..bought one in December….went back for another one for new years…..10$ a pound and the lentil soup after was incredible, lots of compliments and will buy it every year, saving up for it especially…🇺🇸🐷
Your oh so right! That's exactly why I can't stand spiral cut ham either! I really stay away from ham because of all that salt! I'm on a no salt diet now, & sometimes I take a little bite of ham &/or hot dogs,& man oh man are they salty!
I wonder whether there is a generic way to figure out which ham is the right choice independent of the country one is in currently. I see this video is about ham in the USA. Not much good for people in Europe/UK/SA/OZ/NZ et al.
Cooks used to have fabulous Smoked Sausage & Ham slices. Smithfield products have gone to he'll since the Chinese bought the company. ( I bought Smithfield breakfast links just a few days ago. Never again. 🤢)
Alberts ham in Pennsylvania is one of the best ones ive had in yrs old days u get hams that had so much fat and skin but alast no more well im 66 and hopefully i still get my fav till i die
There's no reason to torture any animal destined for the table. Localized farming is the future. Us, in the SE US, are fortunate but, we still need to go through the seasons.
So much pork is sent over to China now where it is slaughtered and processed then sent back to the North American market. I personally get very wary of these hams and bacon and what goes into the processing.
Do not buy a Cook's Ham, they are 23% added ingredients, The way it works for these companies is that the more water or inert liquid a ham can hold, the more profit it is for them (you can make good money selling water). Unfortunately many brands are starting to follow suit. Sugardale and and Heritage are two very bad ones, Smithfield, while not as bad, has way too much water, as do many of foil wrapped "premium" spiral sliced or sweetened lines do. Ingredients that more and more of these brands are using (which are legal but are underhanded in the amounts they use) are potassium lactate (it's a syrupy, clear lactic acid that holds a lot of water), sodium erythorbate (a cure accelerator), sodium phosphate (another one that help hold water). The act of making a ham does require a brine (almost always injected), and sodium nitrite (found in most lunchmeats and sausage, used to inhibit dangerous bacterial growth, it what gives hams and corned beef that pinkish or reddish color). Ham brands that I know are still good yet are Hillshire Farms, Hormel Cure 81, and of course the real Virginia smoked hams, which a treat if you can get one.
Honey Baked ham is too expensive and WAY too sweet. You can't make any soup with the leftovers because of the sweetness. I like to make split pea soup with a left over ham bone but the sweetness of this ham ruined the soup. I don't understand rubbing sugar on meat...
Looking for a cheaper alternative, I have tried a number of alternatives including a couple of Smithfield, Costco and Sam's Club. I recently had a Honey Baked Ham again and it really is the best.
Smithfield. Meh. Far from the best ham, but I have to admit, for the price it is okay, and on a tight budget, it's living like regular folks. Perfectly adequate for a ham n cheese poboy, or a cordon bleu or eggs benedict. Sunday dinner for company, no way. It just doesn't measure up. We got standards. Just family, trying to save money on the grocs, sure, it's a thing. If you don't over-recook it, it keeps nicely in the fridge for several days while everybody picks at it.
You want a GREAT spiral cut ham? Burgers Meats out of California, MO. By far the best ham I have ever eaten. My Dad would be tickled when I had one sent to the house for the Holidays. Mom knew exactly how to prepare it. Remember Burgers out of California, MO.
I had been a loyal customer for about 40 years and considered HBH to be the gold standard. But no more. In 4 years the 6-7 LB qtr ham I used to buy went from about $30 to $80, so I decided to buy Sara Lee at the Walmart deli for about $9/LB. Then HBH had a sale--QTR ham for $30 (list price is $49.95) so I got one. Compared them side by side and you could not tell the differance. the HBH QTR ham was now 3.8 LBs and the bone was now collossal. It was 1.06 LBS, or about 28%. I got enough meat for 2 servings and some leftovers for split pea soup. I won't waste my time or money on them again.
Smithfield sold out to China a lot of stuff is prossessed there not the only ham company either same as chicken companies sold out chicken prossessed in China
Which brand do you think makes the best spiral ham?
No one. I’ve had spiral hams costing a farthing and ones whose cost took my breath away. They are all too dry unless you douse them with some invariably oversweet sauce. Give me a reasonably priced Hummel ham (New Haven, CT) and I’ll slice it myself.
Wow... No love for Farmer John Spiral Sliced Hams?
Carando smoked hams are our go-to. Never less than perfect and when they go on sale they're even better.
Probably some brand that I can't afford. If I hit the Lottery I want to try some of that Spanish Ham that costs 500$ a pound...
Smithfield sold out to a company in China. So nope won't buy anything by Smithfield.
I like cut thick slices of ham so I buy Cook's & cut it up myself. I've had very good luck with Cooks. I buy them when the price drops after holidays, cut it into slices and chunks, then freeze it in Seal-a-Meal bags. It's always nice to pull a bag out of the freezer for adding to soups, baked beans, & omelets. The bone is great for bean soup stock. When the bone has done it's work the dog gets it. Even the extra fat is melted down to flavor cornbread, vegetables, casseroles or fried hash browns. Ham is a great value, imo. ❤🐷
Smithfield is owned by China, as mentioned Cooks is part of Smithfield, I WILL NOT buy China pork.
CHINA OWNS COOKS HAMS
20 bucks a lb for ANY meat is ridiculous.
Damn right !
Try about 10-13 dollars a pound for a quality spiral cut honey baked ham.
I buy spiral hams on sale every holiday for .89 a pound. I make my own glaze with orange juice, brown sugar, pineapple juice and marachino cherry juice with cloves and cinnamon. They are always delicious.
What "holiday"?
@@josephgaviota Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
@@bryanspindle4455 Thank you kind sir.
You are most kindly welcome. I also put pineapple rings, maraschino cherries and cloves on the outside.
@@josephgaviota : What Holidays? TG, Xmas, & Easter. Ham's always on sale after the holidays.
My Mom always bought a whole ham, pig-skin and all.....She would half cook it and then remove the skin most of the fat and then came
the glaze, the pineapple slices, the cherries and the cloves and in the oven it went to finish cooking......With all those flavors the raisin gravy was spectacular........
You are right, a fresh ham from the butchers shop is best!
Raisin gravy? Wtf... No offense but I know you're white. I'm white too but I know how to cook. That sounds disgusting
Now I am hungry 😂❤❤❤❤
Oh babe ❤❤❤❤❤
My mom and aunts would use the skin to make crackle. I miss them so much 😢😢😢💔💔💔
These spiral hams are always the shank end the cheaper more boney of the two halves. Spiral cutting was a great way to upmarket this cheaper cut.
Smithfield Ham is no longer the American traditional company we remember. Smithfield Foods is now Cinese owned. I grew up on a farm where traditional smoking processes were used. These chemical laced hams are unnatural.
Selling Smithfield to the Chinese was a mortal sin.
It's all about the $$$
Off topic, but you can buy fresh non-cured hams from a butcher. No sodium or sugar added, just tender fresh pork. It's a finer grain than a chop.
Thanks for harming the American farmers who grow every hog Smithfield uses
Smithfield owns Nathan’s Famous hotdogs. Yes, America’s iconic hotdog is own by china.
2:04 Just remember, Smithfield is owned by CHY-NAH.
I know.....That's why it TASTES so good.......Chinese food, yum, yum !
True, I will not give money to China, being Cooks is under Smithfield, I will never get one.
NEVER! “Smithfield”.
Smithfield meet ain't worth a s*** no more
I think most Americans don't know that Smithfield got bought by a Chinese corporation in 2013. Support Hatfield, an American brand company based in Pennsylvania.
Smithfield is Chinese owned company.
Obama sold out America allowing China to buy Smithfield..
The sale of Smithfield to China's WH Group for $4.7 was the largest Chinese takeover of an American company, now 80% of Chinese owned farmland is owned by Smithfield foods. How was that sale possible? Hillary Clinton was instrumental in greasing the way (remember she is also a lawyer) for the Chinese businessmen (they are the same people associated with billionaire Wang Wenliang who is in fact closely linked with China's CCP party's highest members (who are known as those with portfolios). Rilin Enterprises (which is run by Wang Wenliang) donated $2 million dollars to the Clinton Foundation in 2013.
I have to note that I vote 100% Democratic (especially since Jan. 6th) despite by extreme dislike for the Clintons, I would even vote for her today, being that she is the lesser of the two evils when it comes to her or the Republicans.
@@frankkolton1780your political leanings and voting record are irrelevant to the topic, but thanks for pointing out that you are not able to make wise choices.
As an Army National Guard sergeant, I once had to confer with one of my corporals, also a good friend, on the job, who worked at Honeybaked Hams. I found him wearing a big rubber apron, a blowtorch in one hand, and a three inch paintbrush in the other, alternately blasting and basting a number of hams! At a time when HBH hams were a valued gift, and a frequent employer's holiday bonus handout. Harry and David?!? At $12.24 a pound ?!? Let's face it: Ham ain't steak!!!
I won't say it is the best, but if you want a great grocery store ham. Hormel Cure 81 is always very good. If you want to spend a fortune on a ham, you could no doubt find a better one. How you warm the ham up makes a huge difference too.
BEEN BUYING MEMBER'S MARK HAM FOR SOME TIME NOW! NEVER HAD A PROBLEM. TASTE IS GREAT AND A VERY GOOD VALUE AS WELL!
Ok ty cause I'm reading the review and it says it's slimey :/
Costco’s Mastercarve ham is amazing. They used to include a pouch of some black berry sauce. I can’t remember what berry, but it was the best I ever had!
Honey baked ham's claim to fame was a patent for a bone-in spiral-slicer. They were the only ones that had it until that patent expired in the late 70's or 80's. Because the slicing made the sauce get into all of the nooks and crannies, there was no other like it. But once that patent was gone...everybody did it. Now it is ordinary.
Imo Honey Baked Brand Hams are tasty, but are too expensive. I DO like their champagne honey mustard tho. 😋
@@ginawiggles918 Yes that mustard is yummy!
I like walmart's ham that's wrapped in the purple mylar. It tastes great.
You have poor taste my dude lol
My local Walmart started doing Nathan's Hot Dogs and BBQ Pork sandwiches. And they are Surprisingly Very Good!
@@markmower6507Squirrel!!!
Well, I can't stand the taste of mylar, myself. And it is really tough to chew.
Nathan's isn't American anymore. They're owned by Smithfield which is owned by a Chinese corporation since 2013. Support Hatfield, higher quality and a true American brand based in Pennsylvania.
My experience is - whether the ham is moist or dry depends entirely how you reheat it. Put it in a turkey roaster, on the tray, with water in the bottom.
Don't leave it forever uncovered in the oven. Glaze it when you're about to serve it.
Ham is best served cold anyway. No “glaze,” just put some jalapeño jelly on the side for each person to use as they see fit.
I have eaten a lot of brand name hams. I usually buy hams from our local supermarket Food Lion. I usually buy a few few when they go on sale. The hams are not salty l usually use my own home made glaze. I also buy smoked hams.
Love Food Lion
Omaha Steaks are top notch quality meats. I used to order there for my dad on occasion. I recently got a Sam's club ham and it is delicious, juicy and not too fatty. My puppy loved the soup bone. I am sure the Omaha Steaks would be better but too expensive for me now lol.
Every Omaha Steak I have ever eaten is as tough as boot leather
Okay so sams club ham is ok?
SMITHFIELD IS CHINESE OWNED and produced. I stopped buying their products years ago
You didn't mention that Honey Baked is the original spiral sliced ham. Harry J. Hoenselaar invented the spiral slicing machine in 1936. He got it patented in 1944. For years he tried to sell the machines to meat companies but they all turned him down. So in 1957 he opened the first Honey Baked store in Detroit. Harry was no longer trying to sell the machines, reserving them for his own business. As the popularity of spiral sliced ham grew, the other companies had to sit and wait on all the patents to expire, kicking themselves over all the money they threw away when they could have been selling spiral sliced hams.
Cure 81 is one of the best Hams I've ever had.
I find it interesting that the number one ham amongst the hog producers in the upper mid west is Hormel's Cure 81 and it didn't even make the list?
I remember in the mid 60's they had a spiral chrome rack for slicing. Superb presentation!! @@forddupont2594
Ill stick to Honey Baked Ham. Ive been buying them for decades now. The best 👌
Chinese billionaire owner Wan Long, who took a small Chinese state-owned meat processing plant and expanded it into a multinational company with more than $24 billion in annual sales. Now, the owner of Nathan's Famous hot dogs and Cook's ham.
In 2013, WH Group (formerly known as Shuanghui International Holdings) purchased Smithfield for $4.7 billion; including debt, the deal valued the firm at $7.1 billion, then the largest acquisition of a U.S. company by a Chinese business. WH Group went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange a year later, and furthered its American presence by buying Clougherty Packing, California's largest pork processor, in 2017.
All true. Support Hatfield if you can find them in your supermarket. A higher quality, true American product based in Pennsylvania.
As much as I like Smithfield, and Harry and David, I still pick Boars Head. If you guys haven't tried Boars Head, I will challenge you to pick it up next time. You won't be disappointed.
O3:30 - RIP Carl Weathers 😞
What does he have to do with ham?
@@MargaritaMaldonado-gm7kxDUH! Maybe you should paid attention to the video about making stew from a ham bone.
@@MargaritaMaldonado-gm7kx
@@brads2330 Cerveza for You 🍺
You NAMED your pig?? 🐷 I couldn't EAT a PET!
Buy a ham and a goid knife.
Forget dried out thin cut spiral hams.
Not to mention PRICEY! (and too sweet, imo)
I don’t buy ANY pre-sliced ham like to cut my own. The first I had was dry, the second stunk like a place it was raised. Only like hams that I cut myself. Cooks hams have consistently been good for me. Hy Vee a store brand also is quality product.
Most of the time I buy Harris Teeter store brand spiral ham. Smithfield if it’s on sale.
Price paid is usually $3-4 per pound.
Tricks to keeping it moist & delicious:
Don’t heat it until you’re ready to eat it.
Don’t add the sugar/honey packet. You really don’t need the extra calories.
Here’s my glaze recipe that always win rave reviews from family and friends. 2 cups brown sugar….1/2 cup white sugar……mix together till well combined……drizzle maple syrup (the real stuff) over the sugars until you get a thick mud mixture. Don’t let it get runny. In cooking remember, you can always add, but you can’t take away. Put about a third of the mixture on the ham as you cook it. Put the next third 20 minutes before you take it out of the oven, then add the remaining mixture on the ham as it rests and torch it till it becomes bubbly and crispy. It is very good.
Next time you do a review of hams and other smoked products add New Braunfels Smokehouse of New Braunfels TX to your list. I have bought smoked meats from them at Christmas time for my family and friends and have always received compliments ion their products. I' am anxious to see how they stack up to other brands. I have also wanted to try some of the products from D Artagnan as I have followed them on the net and have heard good things about them.
I buy COOKS Ham by Smithfield at Meijer for .79 cents per pound on sale this week. Very good Ham, not salty tasting.
Honey baked used to be the best. Hands down. Always. It’s the only one we’d buy because no one else made anything close to it. But I won’t buy it anymore. The last few years, it’s so bad, I threw most of it away or gave it to the dogs. I’ll never buy one again.
I buy 2 spiral glazed hams a year at least. I get them at a huge discount due to store's holiday special that is reached with purchases. I pay 50 cents per lb for cooks which I have had great luck with. Hams end up costing around $7 or $8
We love a spiral sliced ham. Always juicy and convenient. Delicious
Also if you know how to make a Really Good Jack Daniels Glaze, it Never Dries out. Hahahahahahahaha 😂!!!
Yeah, Honey-Baked Ham failed to apply a promised discount for a large on-line order, failed to contact me despite multiple on-line attempts, and when I called customer service, they told me they could only help with in-store problems ... as if they were separate companies. They're too expensive to put up with such poor service. (And the sides are even more pricy for what's delivered.)
I hate spiral cut hams. The ham is sliced too thin. It dries out very quickly. It's so thin if you try to reheat it then it just burns up. It's awful. Stop being lazy and slice the ham yourself. It's so much better.
I’m a Jewish Muslim and still have trouble holding out! 🤷♂️
@@LePedantSemantique Oh my....
What's your favorite brand of Ham?
That's exactly why I like it. I prefer it to be more dried out.
@@HeavyInstinct Glazed in Homemade Jack Daniels Glaze...
I hate precut spiral hams. I like and need to control the thickness of the slices. I find spiral to be too thick for sandwiches and too thin for ham steak recipes. Anyone can whip up ham glaze.
Hofmeister Ham in Chicago is the best around. None of that spiral sliced trash.
Best way to leach salt is to cover the ham with pineapple rings and then pack brown sugar on top. So yummy!
I only buy Cade's Cove hams. They're not the cheapest - but they're the BEST ham you can get. They aren't spiral cut though, which is fine by me because of the way I cook a ham. First thing with cooking any ham is to throw away the glaze. There's only two seasonings that should ever grace a ham: smoke and pepper. I cook my hams on my Weber charcoal grill using the rotisserie attachment. Soak some fruit wood chips in water for about an hour, get the coals good and hot (leave the center of the grill bare of coals), and spin the ham for about 3 hours. Every 15-20 minutes, throw a handful of the soaked wood chips on the coals. The smokiest, juiciest, tenderest, and most delicious ham you'll ever eat.
I buy from Aldi. It is always delicious and a good price.
I buy my ham at the local market. The quality is superb, I know exactly where it comes from, and the price is reasonable. Why would I buy anywhere else? Cheers!
I will not buy Honey baked as toooo expensive and just a waste of money. Store brands are just fine.
Nueske's apple wood smoked bacon is 🔥
Nueske’s hams, smoked bacons etc are top tier after decades of my tasting! Seriously good!
Neuske’s is favored by a lot of chefs and dining establishments. They do a big business in selling to high end restaurants. They’re the real deal.
I get a Nueske's ham every Christmas, Never had any problems, Love their hams.
I buy a Honey Baked Ham for Christmas every year and then smoke it at home for about 3 hours right before serving.
The extra smoking just before serving makes it the talked about item of the day every year.
Is cooks any good?
I wonder if Smithfield hams improved after they were bought by a Chinese conglomerate ?
Hard to find spiral sliced ham in the UK.
I don't buy spiral because you always have to heat it up and no matter how you cook it, it ends up like thin slices of shoe leather Ill slice it myself
I don't buy Honey Baked ham any more, but not for the reason you think. I would take it to my Mom's house and she would insist on cooking it until it was hot. In doing so all of the yummy glaze, the best part would melt off and lay in the pan. I swore never to buy it again, at least not to where I would take it there. Her insistence in having all of her food piping hot has probably led to her eating something she shouldn't at restaurants, but that's what you get when you're ridiculously picky.
No info concerning the ownership of the producing companies?
google is a good place to start -
Avoid Smithfield. They sold to a giant Chinese corporation in 2013. If you want to do a deep dive, look into China's counterfeit foods. It's all about producing the cheapest quality for big profits.
Ham goes in 12 different fridges 1 month each ! ready for the store after 1 year ! that s quality Ham ! Santa Rosa, Santa Maria !
Don’t listen to them……honey baked ham is absolutely fantastic……..bought one in December….went back for another one for new years…..10$ a pound and the lentil soup after was incredible, lots of compliments and will buy it every year, saving up for it especially…🇺🇸🐷
Buy my ham from Costco. Ham off the Bone. Cook it as a side dish with the Turkey. Can buy it at Costco anytime.
This is good info. for seniors that don't have the energy or budget to cook large meals. You just slice the ham after warming up. That's it.
I tried them all, I prefer honey baked.
Heavenly Ham! Don't know if they're still around though).
Buy artisanal ham
Industrial/processed ham contains way too much sodium nitrate/preservatives
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Your oh so right! That's exactly why I can't stand spiral cut ham either! I really stay away from ham because of all that salt! I'm on a no salt diet now, & sometimes I take a little bite of ham &/or hot dogs,& man oh man are they salty!
Send me 500$ a Week so I can Afford to purchase Artisanal Ham?! Hahahahahahahaha 😂!!!
I mean seriously if I could afford it I would have Already been Eating It. Next week Truffles from France... Hahahahahahahaha 😂!!!
I wonder whether there is a generic way to figure out which ham is the right choice independent of the country one is in currently.
I see this video is about ham in the USA.
Not much good for people in Europe/UK/SA/OZ/NZ et al.
Why nothing from Aldi or Trader Joe? Their products usually are of high quality.
Never had a problem with honey baked hams.
It’s not cheap but I love honey baked brand ham.
BEST HAM I EVER HAD WAS FROM KROGERS IT WAS A MASH BRAND HAM WITH ONE THIRD LESS SALT
ah, yeah, if a ham is too salty, either soak it or boil it for the start then bake it after you got out a lot of the salt
what are you moking, 3 to over 4 dollars a lb, are you Insane????
120 dollars, for a ham??? who is passing around that Pipe
Cooks used to have fabulous Smoked Sausage & Ham slices.
Smithfield products have gone to he'll since the Chinese bought the company. ( I bought Smithfield breakfast links just a few days ago. Never again. 🤢)
Alberts ham in Pennsylvania is one of the best ones ive had in yrs old days u get hams that had so much fat and skin but alast no more well im 66 and hopefully i still get my fav till i die
I don't buy this already-cut ham because I want the cuts a little thicker, and I believe the juice dissipates, leaving a thin, burnt cut of ham.
I buy whole pork shoulder for .99 a pound on sale, cure the boneless end and smoke it in a cheap smoker I bought.
There's no reason to torture any animal destined for the table. Localized farming is the future. Us, in the SE US, are fortunate but, we still need to go through the seasons.
So much pork is sent over to China now where it is slaughtered and processed then sent back to the North American market. I personally get very wary of these hams and bacon and what goes into the processing.
Smithfield was bought out by a Chinese company some years ago and the quality has suffered!
Cooks ham was our favorite ...
Great review!!
I’m sorry but there is not a spiral cut ham no matter how good it is worth $100 plus give me a break Carole Cell do that
Who buys groceries at Target? ... but people do buy groceries at Aldi. Where are they in your comparison.
And! Too sweet for beans, yum.
Frick's hams aren't spiral sliced, but a great ham. American owned.
Do not buy a Cook's Ham, they are 23% added ingredients, The way it works for these companies is that the more water or inert liquid a ham can hold, the more profit it is for them (you can make good money selling water). Unfortunately many brands are starting to follow suit. Sugardale and and Heritage are two very bad ones, Smithfield, while not as bad, has way too much water, as do many of foil wrapped "premium" spiral sliced or sweetened lines do. Ingredients that more and more of these brands are using (which are legal but are underhanded in the amounts they use) are potassium lactate (it's a syrupy, clear lactic acid that holds a lot of water), sodium erythorbate (a cure accelerator), sodium phosphate (another one that help hold water).
The act of making a ham does require a brine (almost always injected), and sodium nitrite (found in most lunchmeats and sausage, used to inhibit dangerous bacterial growth, it what gives hams and corned beef that pinkish or reddish color).
Ham brands that I know are still good yet are Hillshire Farms, Hormel Cure 81, and of course the real Virginia smoked hams, which a treat if you can get one.
Some ppl would eat a turd. I am picky about quality.
I ate some mushrooms off of a Cow Turd. And they gave me Much Wisdom and Understanding...
Interesting ! Where do you get your quality turds?
@@billgrandone3552 Oh I don't mess with that stuff anymore. That was Many Moons Ago.
@@markmower6507 My question was for Ms. Beckham.
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Smithfield China raised.
I've never had a bad honey back ham,!!! 😂😂😂😂
Smithfield was bought by the ccp years ago!
Watch "pignorant" by Joey Carbstrong and team learn all about your ham !
Honey Baked ham is too expensive and WAY too sweet. You can't make any soup with the leftovers because of the sweetness. I like to make split pea soup with a left over ham bone but the sweetness of this ham ruined the soup. I don't understand rubbing sugar on meat...
Looking for a cheaper alternative, I have tried a number of alternatives including a couple of Smithfield, Costco and Sam's Club. I recently had a Honey Baked Ham again and it really is the best.
Smithfield. Meh. Far from the best ham, but I have to admit, for the price it is okay, and on a tight budget, it's living like regular folks. Perfectly adequate for a ham n cheese poboy, or a cordon bleu or eggs benedict. Sunday dinner for company, no way. It just doesn't measure up. We got standards. Just family, trying to save money on the grocs, sure, it's a thing. If you don't over-recook it, it keeps nicely in the fridge for several days while everybody picks at it.
You want a GREAT spiral cut ham? Burgers Meats out of California, MO. By far the best ham I have ever eaten. My Dad would be tickled when I had one sent to the house for the Holidays. Mom knew exactly how to prepare it. Remember Burgers out of California, MO.
I had been a loyal customer for about 40 years and considered HBH to be the gold standard. But no more. In 4 years the 6-7 LB qtr ham I used to buy went from about $30 to $80, so I decided to buy Sara Lee at the Walmart deli for about $9/LB. Then HBH had a sale--QTR ham for $30 (list price is $49.95) so I got one. Compared them side by side and you could not tell the differance. the HBH QTR ham was now 3.8 LBs and the bone was now collossal. It was 1.06 LBS, or about 28%. I got enough meat for 2 servings and some leftovers for split pea soup. I won't waste my time or money on them again.
Honey baked has always been overrated.
Smithfield sold out to China a lot of stuff is prossessed there not the only ham company either same as chicken companies sold out chicken prossessed in China
Aldi sells em..pretty good
Aldi Hams are the best tasting. I only buy them now. When I get others it is a big disappointment.
I don't know that looks Pretty Tasty to Me!!!
Whole hams are more delicious, in my opinion.
Smithfield has a abundance of water in their sliced ham. And no taste. Since Chinese bought that company quality has gone down the toilet.
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Yummy! I want the $1/pound ham! Low sodium, real smoke! Where are HEB hams!
Buy directly from the farmers you will never buy at the store again and that goes for all your meat needs! You can buy 1/2 cow whole same on pork!
Honey Bak Ham is worse taste every year. Use to taste good. Just expensive
I like cooks best
the last spiral ham I bought made my hands swell badly for 4 days. Never again.
No spiral cut ham doesn’t matter the brand or price they’re all dry
Yes,whomever invented that shouldn't of!