Crock Pot cooking question.

[keithdog]

Ok guys, not sure anyone here has tried this, but maybe your wives might have. I have a 7 pound boneless smoked ham I want to cook in an 8 QT crock pot. We've cooked beef and other pork roasts in this many times. But never a smoked ham. So looking for pointers here. It's going to be sliced for eatting at a brunch. Some tell me add 7-up or coke, or juice, or nothing at all. I'm not sure what to do really with a ham in a crock pot, or how long to cook it. About the only recipees I've been able to find are for oven baked ham, which I know how to do already.

[66KingFisher]

Hmmmmm.....My understanding was that a smoked ham was already cooked....Is that not the case?

[keithdog]

Originally Posted by 66KingFisher

Hmmmmm.....My understanding was that a smoked ham was already cooked....Is that not the case?

It is but they still need to be heated up to eat. Normally I'd bake it but we have several other things we also need to oven for and the crok pot would make it more convenient.

[Abbeysdad]

Nuke it! ... or go ahead and use the crock pot.... a can of coke or dr. pepper would work just fine

[walkeraviator]

My gradnmother used Coke for her hams as far back as my Dad can remember, and that is teh was i do it today.

[bassinbob]

My dad used to use orange juice and cherries. Other times he used ginger ale. He also stuck cloves in them. I use honey and brown sugar.

[BigBassin144]

I'd find a good glaze recipe that that you like and use that. Maybe even water it down a bit. Occasionally basting in the crock pot.

BB

[66KingFisher]

Well if'n its just extra oven room you needed, what about fire'n up the backyard grill or smoker and heat that rascal up that way?

[Tavery5]

I use brown sugar and pineapple juice, I just pack the outside of the ham with brown sugar then wet it with a little juice and pin the pineapple wheels to the side of the ham. Put a little pineapple juice in the bottom of the pan, and heat it up until it is ready to serve..

[WaffleJaw]

Smoking ham is best done in a shed I thought

[keithdog]

Hey y'all, been at work all day so now I can respond. All these things sound great and I do most of them when I bake it. Being this is the first time I'm crockpot cooking one I'm not sure the conventional methods will work ok. I did find the manual for the crockpot "finally". It mentions cooking a ham and recommends fully wrapping the ham in foil and adding a half cup of water to the pot before cooking it. Then cooking it on high for one hour, then on low for 7 hours. I asked around at work and the general opinion there was a crockpot can dry out a ham thus the need for wrapping it in foil. Maybe I should just try to figure out a way to use the over the old fashioned way.

[bamabassman]

i like the GRILL thought myself. it IS already cooked you said. just put it on the grill and warm it up for a couple of hours. charcoal would be bes ti think. just my worthless 2 cents.

[keithdog]

The grill would probably work, but three things. It's under 2 foot of snow, it's supposed to be COLD that morning, and it's a gas grill which would take up most of what gas I have left. So I'll be stearing away from that for now. Good idea though!

[bamabassman]

OK........GRILL IS OUT OF THE QUESTION,LOL. next up is the crock pot. wrap it in foil, add water and liquid smoke, set on warm for a few hours. how does that sound?

[bcklash]

Originally Posted by WaffleJaw

Smoking ham is best done in a shed I thought

1/4 stick and I can attest to that.

[nofearengineer]

I really can't figure out the purpose of the crock pot. "Low and Slow" is for meats with a lot of connective tissue...ham isn't one of those. And most "can of soda" methods are really for tenderization, which again, with ham not having a lot of connective tissue, you get the idea. If you like the flavor of cola on your ham, reduce it down in a saucepan for a while, and then pour it over a warm ham.

Honey Baked Hams "cooks" their hams the way you should do it...with a torch. That forms a nice crust. Of course, that isn't quite as easy as warming it in the oven, but hey.

[keithdog]

Ok, I should point out the ham is already smoked. I'm basically just heating it up in the crockpot instead of the oven. I just don't want to ruin it by doing it wrong, like sucking the moisture out.

[BBD]

How would the bait monkey warm a ham up?

[keithdog]

Originally Posted by BBD

How would the bait monkey warm a ham up?

I don't even want to know. hahahaha It's only going to cost me money somehow.

[bassinbob]

In Lunker sauce.

[BigBassin144]

Originally Posted by keithdog

The grill would probably work, but three things. It's under 2 foot of snow, it's supposed to be COLD that morning, and it's a gas grill which would take up most of what gas I have left. So I'll be stearing away from that for now. Good idea though!

Originally Posted by bamabassman

OK........GRILL IS OUT OF THE QUESTION,LOL. next up is the crock pot. wrap it in foil, add water and liquid smoke, set on warm for a few hours. how does that sound?

c'mon now guys. First thing I did after it snowed was shoveled a path to the grill. We still grill a lot, even in the winter.Just don't open the lid a lot, lol

It sounds to me like the crockpot manual is to cook the ham, not warm it. I'd make sure there is a lot of liquid in there (whatever you want to use), and baste it often.

BB

[Abbeysdad]

Originally Posted by nofearengineer

I really can't figure out the purpose of the crock pot. "Low and Slow" is for meats with a lot of connective tissue...ham isn't one of those. And most "can of soda" methods are really for tenderization, which again, with ham not having a lot of connective tissue, you get the idea. If you like the flavor of cola on your ham, reduce it down in a saucepan for a while, and then pour it over a warm ham.

I gotta disagree with you - slow cookin, when done right, works for nearly everything and it's good eats.

btw, in a past life I earned my living as a cook fer about 5 years....then I joined the circus - hehe

[66KingFisher]

Originally Posted by BigBassin144

c'mon now guys. First thing I did after it snowed was shoveled a path to the grill. We still grill a lot, even in the winter.Just don't open the lid a lot, lol BB

Sounds like me....lol....We don't get alot of snow here, but I have always grilled outdoors year round.

[MallenManson]

Originally Posted by BigBassin144

I'd find a good glaze recipe that that you like and use that. Maybe even water it down a bit. Occasionally basting in the crock pot.

BB

I'll second that emotion.
Really hard to go wrong with a pre-cooked ham.
So many different things you could use to keep it moist. Orang juice, apple juice, pineapple.....
I'm gettin hungry just thinkin about it!

[MallenManson]

Originally Posted by BigBassin144

c'mon now guys. First thing I did after it snowed was shoveled a path to the grill. We still grill a lot, even in the winter.Just don't open the lid a lot, lol

It sounds to me like the crockpot manual is to cook the ham, not warm it. I'd make sure there is a lot of liquid in there (whatever you want to use), and baste it often.

BB

Rookie. I used deck trusses for the area of the deck where the grill sits