- Ham Support.
- Three types of knives Ham cutting knife (long and flexible),
short knife to
clean the piece and wide knife to skin.
- To sharpen knives, a sharpening steel or stone and a
dish towel, to hold
the piece and clean the knives and hands.
Skin only the part that allows us to cut in a period of two or three days to prevent it from drying out. Start cutting the piece by placing the hoof facing upward and inserting the wide knife with a shallow vertical cut, marking a straight line to break the skin of the upper part without reaching the flesh.
With the ham knife, make fine and straight cuts to obtain uniform slices, no longer than 6 or 7 cm. Once you reach the coxal bone, you need to surround it to continue to obtain slices until reaching the long bones.
Turn over the ham to continue the same process and skin. Finally, the flesh that cannot be cut into slices will be used in culinary dishes.