7kg is quite a lot.

If you want to be very silly/stupid (delete as appropriate) when on holiday in Spain take the hire car to Seròn to view how the hams are made. Next get drawn in so much that a lovely Spanish man is loading a 12.5kg full leg ham into the back seat (would not fit in boot) and taking €100 off you.
When you get back to the apartment you realise you fly home in 2 days and "What the hell am I doing" hits you. After several beers you sell it for €40 to the bar man having not eaten any of it and now €60 out of pocket.

But nobody is that stupid, right!? :disappointed:

I wonder why you are so stupid.

You have to be over 18 to buy ham due to the new WHO guidance that it's carcinogenic.


...... wait - has anyone suggested its because of the knife :smile:

Corrected it for you. :smiley:

This does tempt me as we have avoided them due to the amount of meat on a full leg. Thanks.

Heat thanks Op,any idea how long it's OK for if I don't cut it open for a bit ?

Nice - but when you consider the amount of actual usable ham (excluding the bone) on this, wouldn't you be better off buying it loose? Even from Waitrose?

I wonder if this will be labelled as Halal?

In Spain they just cover it with a teatowel.

​Many thanks

I wonder why you are so naive.

A quick Google would reveal that Aldi have done this before on pork products.

WHO IS STUPID NOW, answer: YOU

don't cover with cling film, as that makes the meat "sweat" and that will cause mould

Corrected it for you. :smiley:

Heat OP. I have always wanted one of these, but @ £40.00 couldn't justify it.
A few thin slices costs about £3.00 so this is a bargain.

Someone that thinks ham is halal is stupid at any level. There's a big difference between pork as an ingredient in something else and a big lump of pig flesh labelled ham.

Definitely use muslin or a tea towel. In clingfilm it will sweat and get mouldy. It lasts years, but needs to be dry. Salt will come to the surface, so you will get white patches, but if dry that is salt , not mould.

Why do you have to be over 18 to purchase Soriano ham? :/

Because the pack comes with a knife for carving it.

You have to be over 18 to buy ham due to the new WHO guidance that it's carcinogenic.


...... wait - has anyone suggested its because of the knife :smile:

M&S have a full size pata negra that looks awesome but its 7kg which is a little much for me so this will do for me.

Thanks for the heads up - my parents bought the big one last year and it was great..lasted months. The sort of size is more reasonable for me though, thats lunch done for a few months :smiley:

Was tempted to buy the big one for my mum but we've never tried it before and they are quite steep. Saw this little mini one in the Aldi brochure, pretty darn good and comes with stand and knife so will make a good xmas pressie!

This will do the job.

Might even get 2 and keep one for later.

If the LIdl Iberico go on offer under £50 might get one of those(currently £100).

best to massage it with olive oil and cling film

I think he was being sarcastic in the "haha wouldn't it be funny if they accidentally labelled this obviously pork containing product as Halal, too?" kind of way.

Whilst I don't think he's gonna be winning any comedy awards anytime soon, I don't think he deserved the PC Brigade either.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.

Morrisons are doing one two for £25.

how many bellotas is this rated?

its the latter one I prefer, will buy that instead

For 13 quid has to be hot. Bet these sell out quick

Nobody asked for your thoughts either though, did they? ;D

its to let it breathe, covering it with cling film wont allow it to.

So tempting to mark this as SPAM... cough :stuck_out_tongue:

What? Can't we joke about anything nowadays? Some religions have got to get a sense of humour .....

Nope! It's modern day Europe my friend, if you're white, straight and Christian (or even non believer), all you can have is guilt, blame and shame!

Didn't the W.H.O. just say something about processed meats?

Will that make it feel better?

That must be really difficult for you.

yeah i like this, don't need a huge leg in a two bed flat. Heat!

maybe depends what its been cured of thats the problem with cured ham they never tell you

Radicalization :confused:

I wonder if the stand would hold a full sized leg. I need a stand and knife but I'm too tight to buy one separately.

Yes I looked at buying a second one in asda and morrisons just for the stand and knife..no luck in Cheltenham though

Well, if you're in UK you don't have much choice to get cheaper presunto/jamón than this. Hot.

You'd think that'd be a good deal till you'd head over to Portugal and Spain where presunto/jamón are so much cheaper and in even bigger quantities. Plus, Euro has a lower value than Pound so more for less. :smiley:

Nope. Presunto is not the same as ham. Fiambre is ham.

It was you that mentioned presunto in the first place!

Anyway having lived in Portugal I can assure you presunto is a dry cured ham not dissimilar to jamón. However this thread is specifically for jamón, which is from Spain. I have no idea why you mentioned presunto at all. :sunglasses:

Presunto is the same as Jamón, simply that Jamón is the Spanish translation while Presunto is the Portuguese translation. Seems like you don't know much about it.

Seems like you are getting yourself confused.

Presunto is Jamón and not Ham like you think it is. It doesn't even taste the same.

This is what happens when clueless people start to act like experts. Typical of Yelpers.

I don't know why you keep referring to presunto which is a type of Portuguese ham but has nothing to do with this thread. The thread is about jamón, a Spanish ham. But it's all ham my friend.

You are right it's all ham here in the UK . The thing is the ones you eat here are salted, smoked or wet cured and then you have the dry cured type Parma ham (Italian) or jamon (Spanish).
This are the names they give to it to differentiate from the other ham, even though still ham .
In Portugal you call it Presunto to a dry cured ham and fiambre to the other ham .
All ham in the end of the day .

But Easyjet's £/kg would be the killer!

because it comes with a knife

Plenty left in Fishponds (Bristol)

they had about 10 at our local store, all gone by 0810

Plenty of stock in Leicester Aylestone Road (although I had to ask for one as they haven't been put on the shop floor yet).

The knife has a black plastic handle not wood as pictured although I'll be using my global knife on this anyway :smiley: Also purchased the Salter Salt and Pepper grinder set for £7.99 reduced from £30 whilst I was in the store. Will only be regional however so not worth posting a new deal on that.

BIg stack(at least 30) at one of our Aldi,

knive had wood handle but is rubbish needs a set of diamond sharpners run over it to get a clean thin edge to cut properly..

best by is well into next year(8/16) so could buy to store.for later.

Looks like the stack of the big ones was a full pallet

The big ones have a best by feb 16

Had loads in Mapperly Nottingham, was a wooden handled knife

Rubbish plastic knife in Bristol, will be going in bin

Got mine from Blyth, Northumberland. Didn't have loads. Mine came with a plastic handled knife as well. The box was black, and isn't Aldi branded.

Oh and the stand looks exactly as the picture on their website even down to the writing on it.

Yeah brought...2 actually as BB was 08/16 my bad!!!
Wooden handle as pictures but didn't open the knife packaging to see how sharp etc etc it is.
And tbh I could have opened it in the shop to see it as it was a cardboard sleeve then the white box which wasn't sealed and the knife and meat was sealed.

Gave the knife a bit of a hone to get a keener edge, it is better but a little short,
1"-2" strips are coming of fine and ideal..
Might try sticking a finer 17deg edge on later.

Are these any good? What is the best way to cut it? And what is the best way to store it?

Ours came vacuum wrapped... I thought there were meant to be unwrapped.
Do I have to let it breathe or something?
Thanks.

I have read that boneless Serrano that has been vacuum packed should be refrigerated? Is that right?

Still a few in Aldi Camelon in Falkirk

about 20 left in my local store at 8pm tonight and lots of the full legs too

Plenty left in Berkshire no need to fall for the EBay Lowlife's

Picked on up this morning - a surprising amount of fat on it, though. I know there should be some fat, but at least a third of this one is solid white fat!

This ham only weighs around 1kg not 1.5 kg nice tasting but not such good value @ £ 12.99 a kg I bought 2 opened one and tried before noticing weight took second one back and went for £27.99 @ 6/6.5 kg leg hope it tastes as good as this

Could the total weight include the wooden stand?

I doubt it - they show this in their leaflets as £8.66 per kilo and I'm not sure I'd want to eat the knife and stand. :neutral_face:

I spoke to Aldi CS today, and they are sending me a gift voucher, as it was advertised at 8.66 per kg.

boneless mini jamon serrano ham WITH WOODEN STAND. unable to get from stourbridge or woolaston store. will there be anymore before christmas?

OK just finished our one so thought I would update.

As has been pointed out these are not as big as you think and do have a decent fat layer,
ours was not as bad as some seemed to get and it trimmed off OK leaving a small taster on the slices.

The biggest issue is the texture is from rock hard to very good, probably around 25% rock hard and 50% good with the other 25% in between.

The other issue was about 25% over salty but improved as we went through the piece.
I also got a bit that had a joint in the middle so it started to fall apart as we used it up.

Overall not that good a buy(should have weighed in the waste), glad I did not get another one.

I think we will try a big one next time, less than 2.5 times the price for well over 4x the meat so should get a better £/kg ratio and as I can do a small one in 2 weeks should be able to eat a big one before it goes over.

(I think there are still some bigs ones around saw Tesco had them last week)