double smoking a spiral cut ham
and smothering it with my maple glaze
oh my gosh this is ridiculous
i'm getting this ham onto my pit boss austin xl
at 250 degrees and using apple pellets
to get the perfect sweet and smoky finish
what's up you guys my name is Nick
today we are making the easiest ham recipe ever
in most of my videos it is very difficult:
seasoning things, binders, rubs, different glazes, sauces, smoke it for this temperature, change it up -
no! today we're just putting it on 250 - a ham
the ham's already cooked
it's technically already smoked in hickory
we're just setting it on the smoker to get some extra smoke
and we're gonna make our glaze put it on at the end
this is perfect for holidays
if you want to impress all of your guests
this will be way better than any ham they've probably ever had before
and it is ridiculously easy
so without further ado let's cut into this and i'll show you how to make it
so we're just going to take and cut this plastic open
and the reason why i have it on top of this pan
is because this thing is full of juices
so when i actually go to open this
i don't want it on my countertop
because it's going to be nice and juicy
now that our ham is out of the package it is completely done
it is ready to go on the smoker
i'm not going to put any rub on this
this ham was already smoked in hickory
so i'm not going to use a heavy smoke flavor
like a hickory or something like that
i'm actually going to be using apple today
because i want the smoke that gets on this to be a little bit sweet
because we're using a maple glaze
and i want to add the sweet aspect to this
because like i said it's already got that deep smoke flavor in it
so now the next step now that you have this out
i'm just going to let this rest on my countertop
i'm going to go outside and fire up my smoker
now that our ham is out on the smoker we have 90 minutes of waiting time until it's ready for our
next step but in the meantime we're going to make our glaze we're gonna be using a mixture of brown
sugar maple syrup apple cider vinegar a little pinch of salt and some apple juice we're gonna
mix all these things together in a little saucepan turn up the heat until it starts to simmer let it
let simmer for a little bit until it starts to thicken up and then at that point you can decide
if you want to add in a little bit more apple juice or if you need more maple syrup if it's
really thick you want to add in a little bit more apple juice that way it thins it down if it's too
thin you want to add in a little bit more maple syrup and let that simmer down again until it
gets to that right consistency and we do want this to be on the thicker side of things considering it
is a glaze so now let's mix these in our saucepan we're gonna be putting in a quarter cup of apple
cider vinegar and a quarter cup of apple juice then we're going to be putting in a half cup of
maple syrup and i use real maple syrup then we're going to be putting in about 1 cup of brown sugar
then we're going to mix this until everything is well incorporated
then we're gonna get this on our stove top turn it up to about a medium heat
bring it up to a simmer and let it simmer for 10 to 15 minutes after about 10-15 minutes if your
glaze is still runny you can add in more maple syrup simmer a little while longer and it should
thicken up i added in probably about another quarter cup after about 90 minutes i was only
looking at about 90 to 100 degrees i don't really know why it took this long probably because it's
really cold where i live and my smoker's probably just having some issues after one more hour i
went back out to check it and it looks like we're finally hitting right around that 130 range right
where we want to glaze so i'm gonna take this off bring it inside and we're gonna get some clays on
our hand was hitting that right internal temperature right there around 135 140 so i went
ahead and i pulled it off the smoker the reason why i'm gonna be glazing it inside is because i
don't want to get my smoker super sticky when this glaze runs off the side if you have a smoker where
you could put some foil or a sort of a sauce pan underneath this you could totally just glaze it
right on your smoker but i'm going to go ahead and do this right here when i glaze anything i
kind of just dump the liquid all over it and then i worry about painting it on later i just try to
make sure that i get everything covered there's no real pretty way to do this it's really messy
it's really sticky but just get it all painted on there and take as many taste tests as you want
this recipe made the perfect amount of glaze that i needed if you want to make a little bit extra
maybe double this you'll have some to actually dip your ham in and there is no shame if you want to
do that before i get this back on my smoker i just want to take and try a little bit of this
now by itself this is extremely sweet this basically tastes like we just dumped a bunch
of maple syrup all over our ham but i'm sure once this kind of caramelizes on there
it's going to get some some of that nice char flavor mixed in with this salty meat
i think the final product will be delicious but hey let's get it back out on our smoker
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we had this ham that was all glazed up sit on the smoker for 15 minutes to help the glaze kind of
caramelize onto the ham but now we're back inside it is finally ready to give this a taste test and
here we go this is what it looks like when it's all done and you're trimming into it i think it's
a beautiful piece of art and it tastes really good too okay so now that you guys got to see
what this looks like when it's all cut up i get to have a nice little taste test my favorite part of
the video just like recess when i was a kid in school and lunch time some fat and like to eat
but i'm going to go after this corner because this has a nice little piece of bark right here
wow okay there are a lot of things going on here and i'm very very happy with how this turned out
the first thing that i'd like to comment on is the hickory smoke that is already in this ham
it actually has a great smoke flavor the second thing that i want to comment on is the sweet
smoky flavor that we have from our apple pellets i think we get a great amount of smoke from those
apple pellets even though it's already cooked and you're just reheating it and then i just want to
comment on how great the ham tastes just by itself this meat is super savory and super salty which
means that this pairs up absolutely perfect with this maple glaze that we put on here because even
though the maple glaze was really really sweet and really really sticky once you mix it in with how
savory and salty that bacon is it gives it a perfect balance i hope you guys try this for
easter maybe christmas sometime when the holidays come around this is a super easy very simple
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