Fresh ham takes about 5 hours to smoke at 250F (120C), or until its internal temperature reaches 165F (75C). Smoking ham can be broken down into three easy steps: Curing, glazing, and smoking. Each stage helps infuse the pork with rich flavor and moisture.
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Pay close attention to the size of the ham. Half hams always work best for smoking. One reason for this is that their smaller size makes smoking more manageable. It also has more exposed surface area to cook.
Smoking a fresh ham takes 30 minutes per pound of meat. This is not including the time needed to brine or cure it. This might not sound like much, but most cuts of half ham weigh around 10 lbs, while whole hams can be up to 20 lbs in weight. This means that average smoking times can take anywhere between 5 and 10 hours.
Wrapping meat for the final hour of smoking helps to retain moisture and improve flavor. It shields the meat from direct exposure to the smoke and high temperatures in your smoker, which can help prevent it turning dry as it cooks.
This Traeger smoked ham is grilled to perfection with a crispy bark created by a simple brown sugar and mustard glaze. Whether you are smoking a whole ham to feed a big crew or plan on doing a combination of fresh eating and freezing for later, this easy Traeger smoked ham recipe is for you. Fire up your pellet grill to make this crowd favorite in a few simple steps.
Ham- For this recipe I used a 6 pound bone in, pre-smoked ham (shank portion). Because it is pre-smoked, your Traeger ham will automatically be double smoked! Check out the section below on how to choose the best ham for smoking.
This Traeger smoked ham is grilled to perfection with a crispy bark created by a simple brown sugar and mustard glaze. Whether you are smoking a whole ham to feed a big crew or plan on doing a combination of fresh eating and freezing for later, this recipe is for you. Fire up your pellet grill to make this crowd favorite in a few simple steps.
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There are a lot of woods to choose from when it comes to pellets. Maple or hickory pellets are probably the most popular woods for smoking ham. With the sweet pineapple glaze though, you can take a walk on the wild side with something like mesquite too.
Jeff, This ham sounds great will try it soon, but my question is how can I print the recipe without the sales pitch on a smoker or the testimonials. You have the best web site on smoking and gets opened first.
Ron, all of my recipes since about 2013 have a summarized recipe at the bottom of the page. The ones older than that are being worked on but it is slow going. The rum injected double smoked ham recipe is one of those that has not been completed yet but we hope to get this done soon.
Am enjoying your tips about smoking various foods. They are great. My question is a little off to side. I have purchased the Black Forest" type hams, and think they can be improved a bit by smoking them, so I am going to try that. I would like to know if I can "brine out" some of the salt in the ham as they seem quite salty.
For a glaze to caramelise, it needs sugar in it, a lot of sugar. So as the sugar heats up it can have a tendency to start burning. Since we will be smoking the ham for around three hours, that is a long time to have a heavy sugar glaze on anything.
The overall smoking and glazing time will take around 3 to 3 and a half hours, depending on the size of your ham. Once it is ready and resting on a chopping board, I like to warm up the glaze again and give it one last thick coating while I allow the ham to rest for 5 minutes before slicing into it.
By far the most popular hams in the US are wet-cured hams, hams that have been injected with a brine and then pre-cooked. The brine usually has salt, sugar, and spice and lots of stuff nice, and the cooking often includes smoking. This was a method developed for preserving large hunks of meat like hog rumps long before refrigeration was invented.
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I did this recipe for Thanksgiving with a Kurobuta half-ham from Snake River Farms. I used maple wood for my smoking. All I have to say was that ham was CONSUMED!!! It was amazing. That glaze was perfect. Not overly sweet but mixed so nicely with the Sweet Heat rub. I will most certainly be doing this one again.
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Leftovers are my favorite part about smoking meat! The flavor carries over into the next dish. And no surprise those dishes can be smoked as well! Check out my collection -> here of leftover ham recipes!
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