Honey Baked Ham Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How to cook my honey baked ham? ›

Serving Instructions

We recommend that you do not heat Honey Baked Hams® - they are made to enjoy right from the refrigerator. If you prefer your meat warmed, gently heat on low heat 275°F for 10 min per pound only by the slice, do not heat the entire ham. Heating may cause the meat to dry out and lose flavor.

A Honey Baked Ham is the best holiday ham you can buy. Our hams are smoked for up to 24 hours with our special blend of hardwood chips, then spiral-sliced to the bone for convenient easy serving, and hand-crafted with our sweet, crunchy glaze.

After curing, our hams spend up to 24 hours smoking—at least twice as long as the industry standard—over a select blend of hardwood chips. The long smoking process gives Honey Baked Ham its rich, smoky flavor our customers love.

The glaze should not be applied until the final hour to 30 minutes, in order to avoid burning the sugars. What you're going to do with the glaze ingredients is just combine most of them into a paste, and then apply it to the ham. After that, the heat in your oven will take care of everything.

The idea is to wait until the ham is almost fully heated, then add the glaze as one of the last steps. You don't want to add it too early or the sugars in the glaze could cause it to burn, and you don't want to add it too late or you won't get that caramelized coating.

We slow smoke our tender and savory Honey Baked™ Boneless Half Ham for exquisite flavor and maximum tenderness. We add our sweet, crunchy glaze as the finishing touch by hand in-store.

While the ham is sitting on the counter, preheat your oven to 275°F. To minimize moisture loss further, either keep it wrapped in its foil wrapper or remove the wrapper and tuck the ham into an oven bag or tightly wrap it in aluminum foil.

Processed meat includes ham, devon, bacon, salami, frankfurts, prosciutto and some sausages such as cabanossi and kransky.

If using a conventional oven, cover the entire ham (or portion to be used) and heat at 275 degrees F for about 10 minutes per pound. Your HoneyBaked spiral ham will retain its deliciousness for up to 6 weeks in the freezer.

No. Honey Baked is good, but you can do better for 25% of the price. Go to the grocery store and get a Cook's brand ham. Make sure it's Cook's—other brands I've tried are too salty.

Are Honeybaked hams frozen when you buy them? ›

Every product is individually frozen, boxed in our temperature control packaging with ice packs to guarantee that your order will remain fresh and delicious on its way to you. Our products are designed to thaw during transit so excess moisture or condensation is to be expected.

Each Honey Baked Ham is cured for up to 24 hours using a signature process that enhances the flavor of the meat. Because we don't add any extra water or juices, our hams weigh the same going into the curing process as they do coming out.

Because most hams come with a glaze packet that typically contains added sugars and preservatives, all you have to do is add water and let it cook until thickened (per MyRecipes). However, sometimes the easy route does not yield the most delicious results.

Some cuts expose a few white spots with a limestone-like consistency, which are the result of prolonged curing. These show that the ham is of the highest quality. Technically they are crystals of an amino acid called tyrosine.

Our baked spiral ham is sliced through to the bone, making it easy to remove individual slices. Since then, HoneyBaked has earned a reputation as purveyors of the best spiral ham, setting the undisputed gold standard by which all other spiral cut hams are judged.