Bacon joint

tootles_2

I have a bacon joint to cook for Christmas, normally I would cook it for 20 minutes in the pressure cooker, take off the skin and score the under fat, and then rub in a mixture of dry mustard and brown sugar. and finish it off in the oven.....wondering about doing it in the slow cooker for a change.....its an unsmoked joint??????

frugalfairy_3

I have one too and was planning to cook it in the same way as you normally do. My mum always cooks a piece of ham in her slow cooker every year at Christmas and swears by it, obviously you don't get the nice golden crunchy top but she likes to serve hers with vegetables and parsley sauce anyway.

She puts hers in early in the morning on Medium and it's generally cooked very well by dinner time.

I'm not planning to eat mine hot but slice it when cold for tea on Christmas Day and to have alongside the turkey slices.

tootles_2

I want to use mine for one hot dinner on Christmas eve and then cold until its finished....I find a bacon joint to be very economical will give us 3 or 5 meals for a very reasonable sum.

When you say dinner time do you mean lunch time or evening? My slow cokker has an auto setting on it which starts off high and then drops down to slow........

Penny-Pincher!!

Hey

Always cook mine in the SC. Only buy unsmoked as find the smoked joints too salty! Normally put in the SC with a mixture of water/apple juice and honey, cook on low for about 6hrs+ then have hot for evening meal then cold the next couple of days for sarnies. Yummy!!!!

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halloweenqueen_2

Sounds goo - MR HQ usually takes over the cooking of this - why I don't know - could have been when we were first together the one I cooked cooked of doubled as a basketball it was that rubbery!
Anyway - I may claw back my dignity - lost count of how many times now!! and give the slo-cooker a go! Not only that but I can sleep all afternoon and it will be ready when i am!

halloweenqueen_2

GOOD - not goo - too busy laughing at the stinky duck thread - sorry!

black-saturn

I'm going to cook mine in the slow cooker this year. I'm going to boil it in a saucepan for 20 minutes first and then drain. Then transfer it to the slow cooker and cook it in apple juice and water with some herbs and onion added.

jack92

I've cooked bacon joints in the sc a couple of times in the past and they've come out lovely I used an unsmoked joint, covered it with water and cooked on high for 6 hours.

NIcola

frugalfairy_3

Sorry, tootles, if I was unclear. I think mum does hers for about 6 hours too, maybe a bit more depending on when her guests arrive (she prefers her 'dinner' at lunchtime but they like theirs at 'dinner' time! :snow_laug ). Either way yours should be fine if you cook it for 6 hours. I like blacksaturn's idea of cooking it in apple juice, that sounds yummy.

Good luck and a Merry Christmas :rudolf:

FF

foreverskint

I cook mine in the slow cooker, with a bayleaf, some peppercorns and couple of sppons of sugar, and onion, a carrot and a stick of celery and some water to cover. I cook on low for about 6 hours ( or more if bigger) and then leave to cool a little, still in the stock.

i then remove any rind, score the fat and pour some runny hunny over the top, whack it into a very hot over for about 20 mins until glazed. It's yummy

Ticklemouse

I do mine in the SC with apple juice, but do beware of over-cooking them. They will still taste nice but you won't be able to slice it, even when cold. I over did one and it just fell apart if you so much as looked at it, so totally impractical for the kids sarnies (you know, they HAVE to have thin slices of ham, not great lumps of it, even it is tasty as anything)

I'm going to cook mine on Xmas eve, but I have a meat thermometer so I don't get it too overdone. (however, it's so big I may struggle to get it in the MR 6.5L one :eek: )