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Reheating and Carving Ham

Heating Instructions

Carving Instructions

Celebration Ham Heating Instructions

Heating Instructions

We recommend a spiral-sliced ham for the ease of serving, but if you don’t purchase a pre-sliced ham, here’s the step-by-step to presenting a beautifully carved main course.

1. Preheat oven to 275°. Remove outer wrapping and bone guard (if applicable) from ham.

2. Place ham flat-side down in shallow roasting pan with ½-inch water covering bottom of pan. Cover; heat 12-15 min per lb.

3. Remove from oven; let rest 20-30 min. Transfer ham to clean cutting board. See below for carving instructions.

4. Serve with Wegmans Organic Spicy Brown Mustard.

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Carving Instructions

We recommend a spiral-sliced ham for the ease of serving, but if you don’t purchase a pre-sliced ham, here’s the step-by-step to presenting a beautifully carved main course.

1. Mise en Place

  • Set up carving station in kitchen (not at the table) to keep the mess contained.
  • Place a moistened paper towel under a sturdy carving board to keep it from sliding.
  • Make sure your knife is long enough to slice across full width of meat; sharpen before carving.
  • Have a long-pronged fork to steady meat as you carve and a clean platter to receive slices.

2. Separate Meat

  • Locate bone; cut ham away from bone into pieces as large as possible.

3. Slice & Serve

  • Lay large pieces flat on cutting board; steady with fork. Cut slices as thin as you like, slicing straight down. Ham grain is not uniform, so you won’t be able to cut cross-grain.
how to carve ham

Celebration Ham Heating Instructions

We recommend a spiral-sliced ham for the ease of serving, but if you don’t purchase a pre-sliced ham, here’s the step-by-step to presenting a beautifully carved main course.

1. Preheat oven to 450°. Remove outer wrapping, gold foil, and paper bone guard from ham (reserve gold foil for later use). Also remove plastic bone guard on sliced side of ham. Place ham bone-up in shallow roasting pan.

2. Sear 15 min; reduce temp to 350°. Heat 12-13 min per lb.

3. Remove from oven; let rest 20-30 min. Serve.

Chef Tip: Missing your glaze? It doesn’t get any easier than glazing your ham with honey during the last 20-30 min of heating.

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