Yes, microwave for 3 days :confused:

Thanks for your input :smiley:

Just purchased the small version of this for £12.99. Even the small one will last for a few days over Christmas when cut wafer thin as it should be.

does it have cooking instructions?

​you mean its raw?

I bought the small one last xmas. Superb quality and taste. Lasted well into the new year. Try to slice it as thinly as possible

It was £25 at Morrison's last week but still cheaper than most on-line versions

was tempted to get one, don't think I'll bother now.

Ditto :disappointed: Would be good to hear other peoples opinions. Perhaps other stores fare better, but still around this price point. One of the broadsheets last year was recommending Asda over F&M.

Red raw...if you're lucky it might still be showing signs of life on the hams stand

Oops I got my Aldi's and Lidl's mixed up :disappointed: The OP is from Aldi, my link is from Lidl.

That is my friends leg :confused:

That is my legs friend

I have one from Lidl but I'm tempted by another just to get the stand and knife (you definitely need it... )

I have never had this. What does it taste like? Regular ham? Smokey?

Wife got the smaller one this morning, looks decent enough for 12.99.. Won't be opening it til xmas eve so cannot say how it tastes but hey.. Ciabatta, garlic roulade, thin slice ham and a gherkin slice... Cannot go wrong really.

Great way to kill a hot deal... post a link of a review of a different product from a different supermarket!!

I haven't tried this ham, but almost everything I have bought from Aldi I have been really impressed with - especially their meat!

Tempted. But won't get through it all.

Cheers bruv.

:laughing:

Small one also from Aldi £12.99
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-10-dec/product-detail/ps/p/mini-jamon-serrano/

is there a link to cancer if you processed meat

I recently went to a friends wedding in Spain, I tried various cuts of Serrano ham..Some tasted more rancid than others...generally I prefer it in a toasted sandwich, eating it as it is raw but cured it tastes in general rancid to me depending on the type.

Was not too bad at the wedding, was Jamon Iberico I believe, stuff I tried in the Valencia market was rank, very strong raw meat rancid taste. Cook it and its much nicer.

And yes I have had parma ham, but prefer black forest...once again I prefer that cooked through in a toasted sandwich, but not as rancid tasting as serrano for sure.

sorry eat processed

Thanks for your input :smiley:

"Yes, a whole leg, but do not get excited. This serrano (unappetisingly pale in parts, chewy rather than melting), looks and tastes cheap. You get a base cured flavour and some damp, earthy minerality, but none of the alluring depth and complexity you expect. I tasted this with someone who loves a freebie as much as he loves serrano. He refused to take any home."

Not tried it yet, going to nee used at family gathering.

Rancid? You must have a ropey palate..

I picked up the Morrison's one for £25 on their black friday. It's pretty nice. Just watch some YouTube videos on how to cut it properly first.

It gets nicer the deeper 'in' you get.

on sale at all Aldi stores. In Dover they were near checkouts.

"Ham" these foreigners don't know the difference between jamón/presunto and ham.

Tastes like it is to me, uncooked. Irony, salty....as said stuff was better (and high quality) at the wedding...but I have for sure tried proper serrano ham and yes, in general I find it rancid unless heated through in a toasted sandwich..may as well eat blood.

Wife's just picked one up. Love the taste and the idea of having a cured leg of ham on my kitchen counter. This'll be my 2nd one this year. First was a Groupon deal and only about 4.5kg. Nice but not great.

are you sure you weren't eating actual raw meat lol. dry cured meat isn't raw and shouldnt taste similar to blood!

I know through dry curing it is not raw, but it still tastes raw to my palette. The stuff I had in Valencia I did not like whatsoever, it really did taste irony like blood. The stuff I had at the wedding was strong too, but sweeter.....definitely not to my palette. Sticky texture too......Even when I have black forest ham I prefer that toasted in a sandwich but really like the smokeyness, much prefer black forest ham any day of the week over what I have experienced with serrano, and I most certainly have tried proper serrano in Spain.

I purchased to mini ham this morning. It too young and too wet for my taste. The colour is inconsistent through the piece , it looks as if the cure was too quick and didn't reach the centre. I had the whole leg 2 years ago and it was much better than this. On the plus side the mini ham it doesn't take up much space on your counter and it quite fun. If you have the room the whole leg is better.

Jamón is not ham. If you had actually tasted both you'd know they're completely different.

I've never put it in a toastie before - think i only had it cooked on a pizza tbh.
im getting a new toastie machine at xmas, a cusinart deep filled jobby - so will give it a go in that.
going to nip to aldi in a minute and see if i can grab a little one.
lidl do a great cheese for toasties of you like smokyness - an oak smoked one - really strong smoky taste to it.

Then why is Jamón the Spanish (and French) word for ham then!

Tastes more like bacon, as does black forest ham.

Exactly! It's the same process for your cooked ham and dry cured ham. With cooked ham you cure (often a wet cure) for a shorter time and then cook to compensate for the shorter cure.

I make my own bacon at home - If you dry cure for long enough it turns into a meat you can eat without cooking.

Jamon, prosciutto, bacon, ham.... it's all just pork cured in salt (and nitrates for safety...).

Precisely, if the Spanish and the French use the blanket term Jamón meaning dry cured and don't have another word for cooked ham then Jamón is Jamón.

It probably hasn't been smoked enough. For £27 you can't expect much of a quality ( when it comes to what should be proper serano ham or Parma ham etc...)

Had the occasional bit of Prosciutto. Not bad. Might risk it then.

I´m Spanish and I love Iberian ham. I wouldn´t touch with a pole ANY Iberian or Serrano ham cheaper than 100 pounds if it is the rear leg, or 60 pounds if it is the front leg (AKA "paletilla").

Mmmm dry dogged ham

Also for those who haven't bought something like this before, please ignore the reviews online. This is a £30 leg of serrano, so of course it's not going to be up to the standard of a £300 iberico. Sometimes reviewers forget this.

These cheap legs can be very hit and miss. In the past I bought a little one from Aldi which was disgusting. This year I managed to get the leg from Lidl and it's delightful. You could probably pick up 2 from the same shop, 1 might me lovely and the other inedible. It's just how it is with these cheap meats.

That said, the risk is worth it. If you get one that's inedible, just take it back.

That's a review of Lidl product from 2014. What's that got to do with an Aldi product in 2015?

I recently got the Lidl £100 jamon de cebo and it wasn't up to much. Too salty and fatty.

Why is it for over 18s only?

what's your point? its already been pointed out that the link was wrong.... :neutral_face:

I think his point was, you where tempted, then read a wrong review for it and made your decision not to bother getting it, based on the review, quite clear really

Says the guy who posts a review page to an entirely different product, sold by an entirely different retailer. LOL :smiley:

Looking to buy this as a gift but no ALDI's nearby, is Lidl also offering this?

Tried to buy one from Aldi in Middlesbrough but they didn't have any. Are these available jn all stores?

£27.99 can't be kosher

It tastes under cooked..

Aldi has them as of today

Bought a small one first thing this morning...fair to say that every person at the checkout had at least one in their trolley, so don't think the stock will last long.

Mine has a dark colour and tastes good, not as salty as some I had before

Even in Mercadona Supermarket in Spain recently (I took the photo in September) they were €48, a few quid more expensive than this, although not sure of the quality, it was a proper butchers counter.

^ and your point is

lol never got that

"why I have had to explain it though I really do not know" really! I thought it was self evident why you had to explain it, you are showing a photo of a butcher shop in spain with a price of 48 euros and you think that's useful to others shopping at aldi "to gauge" if its a good deal or not

Obviously the same point...I just don't have the time to read EVERY post. Question is, who are you?

Really? You seem to have as much time as anyone to reply. It's bit creepy asking who someone is.

Got the bf one of these today ...he's opened it and had a few slices tonight and he's happy with how it tastes.

It tastes different to ham but not rancid. Pork tastes different to ham but both OK. Depends what you are used to.

I guess 'gamey' may be a more appropriate term, strong to my palette irony, what I would term rancid lol.

It's only a 1kg ham not 1.5 kg so not as good value but it tastes ok

Still a few legs left in Kirkcaldy

Any legs left near middlesbrough? Tried 3 aldi's and all sold out.
Is anymore stock due in?

Thats Lidl dear, I think you a re getting a little confused, this deal is for Aldi. :man:
Edit: sorry I just read through the thread and saw this has already been highlighted as a review for another store a year ago but rather than delete my comment thought I would leave it on just to emphasize the facts in the comment were incorrect. :man:

Worcester had a at least 50 in today. :man:

Perhaps I do have as much time as anyone to reply...Likewise, perhaps none of us have the time to read every post. Your comment is irrelevant.

Creepy? It was a derogatory comment. Keep up.

Oh right, just good old fashioned bullying. Your mother must be very proud of you.

The original comment was deleted minutes after being posted and a further comment was posted detailing the error. But you can feel self righteous if you like :smiley:

Bullying? Seriously? The "Who are you?" comment really is going over your head.

I really don't understand why you are making such a fuss about this. You posted an incorrect link. I didn't read every post. Quite trivial really.

After much deliberation due to conflicting reviews, we decided to get it and are very happy. The stand was a bit fiddly to put together but very stable. The ham is brilliant. We had it out on the counter for three days now and no sign of mould. I am going to use the bone to make broth if I work out how to chop it up. All in all, I would say good value.

Just got two of these after having one last year. I would definitely recommend them. From reading the reviews, although I like it I probably wouldn't recommend it to a ham snob as it probably doesn't stand up against a 300 quid ones. Although I read recently that a supermarket ham beat a fortnam and mason ham.

Would love one but can't find any anywhere - have tried Aldi (4 stores), Lidl (2 stores) and Morrisons.

These are only of average quality, and wouldn't sell for any more than this in Spain. I've had a few of them over the years and they have mostly been slightly under cured, which makes slicing a pain as the meat tears instead of cutting cleanly (you should be able to achieve wafer thin slices, by hand, with an appropriate knife). The Iberico that Lidl had at £99 is a much better ham (as you'd expect). I won't bother with these low-cost hams again as they really aren't a bargain. If you want to taste the high life spend a bit more and get an Iberico.