can you eat uncooked cured ham?!
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ALL ham is cooked. They never sell raw ham. Ham is not naturally pink, when they take the cut off the pig, it is cooked and coloured. Then they cure it, or package it.
SO you are NEVER eating raw ham - the only way you would have a raw ham is if you take it off the pig yourself.
They do sell RAW HAM at some grocery markets. It will be labled as "Fresh Ham" It will have a thick skin, like almost 2 inches thick.
BTW, all meats in the US are required to put on their labling if they are raw of fully cooked.
If you're concerned, you can always just take a big of butter and carmelize it in a pan. SUPER yummy for breakfast. Might want to add a pinch of brown sugar, as frying it concentrates any salt flavor.
Cured ham, if you know it is cured, is totally meant to be eaten uncooked.
Curing is a proccess of preservation by which salt and/or sugar is used to kill bacteria and other harmful things in your food.
Unless it smells bad, is greenish in color, or is obviously bad (black mold or something) it's fine.
Just check the expiration, and if it's past it, just cook it up (up to a week after, then just toss it)
I wouldn't. It might make you sick if it is not cooked. Now it can be precooked and then chilled and that would be okay.
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