Does anyone boil ham

[This never ends well]

Has anyone tried boiling ham in a saucepan, then adding pasta to the boiled ham, to give it some taste.

I dont mean the gammon type of ham.

Or am i just weird.

 

[Maccapacca]

Only with red coke, onions and spices and that's fantastic.

 

[This never ends well]

Only with red coke, onions and spices and that's fantastic.

May have to give that a try.

 

[FrenchTart]

I've done it in the past and it works pretty well. These days I'd be more likely to cure, sous vide and then use the juices as ingredients in a marinade for a final step in the oven.

 

[bsoltan]

The ham you are having with pasta is it cooked or raw?

 

[FrenchTart]

Wait...I somehow missed the pasta bit.

Kind of confused now.

 

[Glaucus]

I'm confused with pasta. To add flavour, pasta is pretty flavourless.

 

[bsoltan]

I could only assume that cooked ham is being added to the water pre-pasta to help salt the water and pasta?

 

[This never ends well]

I mean like boiling ham 1st for around 5 minutes to give the water some taste, then cooking the pasta in that water.

 

[uv]

just salt the water then serve the pasta with the ham

 

[Dalandius]

just salt the water then serve the pasta with the ham

Ham is pork that has been preserved through salting, smoking, or wet curing. If it is salt cured the last thing you would want to do is add more salt.

 

[bsoltan]

I love that this is equally simple and confusing.

 

[FrenchTart]

Ham is pork that has been preserved through salting, smoking, or wet curing. If it is salt cured the last thing you would want to do is add more salt.

He knows that. He's talking about salting the pasta water, not the ham water.

 

[jsmoke]

You might want to try a smoked ham hock, boiled and in the right recipe, delicious.

 

[Jonny69]

Cooking pasta in ham water = ham flavoured pasta. Come on folks, what's so difficult to understand?

 

[FrenchTart]

Probably the OP's extremely weird wording of his original question.