Cooking Temperature for a Ham

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You don’t need a blast furnace. Set your oven to 325°F. This is the sweet spot. Hot enough to work, gentle enough to not destroy things.

Pop that ham in a roasting pan. Add a little water—like a half-inch—to the bottom of the pan. This creates steam and keeps the ham from turning into a salty brick.

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Cover it tightly with foil. Seriously. Make it a tin-foil burrito. This traps steam and you get a ham that’s soft and tender, not dry and crunchy.

The Glaze Situation

Glaze is a debate that can end friendships. Brown sugar? Honey? Mustard? Pineapple rings with maraschino cherries from 1972?

Here’s the move: Don’t glaze it at the beginning. Glazes burn. They turn into carbon if they sit in a 325°F oven for two hours. You’ll get a ham that looks like a charcoal briquette.

Instead, glaze during the last 30 minutes of cooking. Brush it on, then remove the foil for that last half hour. The sugar will caramelize into a sticky, gorgeous crust.

It’s like putting makeup on right before you go out. Much better than wearing it all day.