2023-07-04 06:33:58
What should you look for to buy a quality ham
He Serrano ham It’s one of the foods best known of Spanish gastronomy and its fame transcends borders. However, not all Serrano hams are the same. The quality of this delicacy can depend on numerous factors, such as the breed of the pig, its diet and the curing process.
He tiktoker expert ham Victor Sanchego has given the key to know how distinguish a good ham serrano before buying it in the supermarket.
What does the quality of ham depend on?
It is important to note that the quality of Serrano ham can depend on several factors, and for this reason it is important to take them into account before deciding which ham to buy. Among these factors are pig breed, feeding and healing of the ham
How to choose the best possible ham
But, what should we specifically look at before buying Serrano ham? If we are talking about whole legs of ham, the first thing to take into account is the color of the label and the seal. Each color indicates the type of ham and its quality.
What does each ham label say?
The ham label gives us the first information about the product and is a good way to start orienting ourselves in our purchase. If it is a black seal, it tells us that it is a 100% Iberian acorn-fed ham from a 100% Iberian animal..
In the event that it is red, it is an Iberian acorn-fed ham but it comes from animals of 75% or 50% of the Iberian breed —50% is the minimum of Iberian breed that the ham must have to be considered Iberian—, while if the green seal, it is Iberian field bait ham and can come from 100% Iberian specimens or 75% or 50% breed Iberian, what have been fed with grass from the field, feed and legumes.
How to choose quality ham
Finally, the white seal identifies the Iberian bait ham, and can come from specimens fed on farms with an Iberian percentage between 50% and 100%. Other labels that can help us identify the ham are Gran Reserva, Reserva, Bodega or Baja Curación.
Without labels, the key to the quality of ham is in the fat
What happens when we buy ham, for example, cut or in bulk from a piece that has already started and we cannot see what label it had? Do we trust the word of trade? Frauds in ham are one of the most frequent in gastronomybut thanks to the video uploaded to Tik Tok by Sanchego, now we can get information about the ham observing the marbling of the fat.
As the expert in hams explains in the video, the infiltration of the fat and the marbling have an important Valuable information about pig feeding and, therefore, the quality of the ham, since this is one of the determining quality factors. A good fat infiltration and uniform marbling they indicate that the pig has had adequate nutrition and an excellent job of curing the piece.
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