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[Victor_Nebril]

A couple of months ago, I ordered one of Victor’s Ibericos and shared it with my Zoom group. We took advantage of having it sliced, which added to the cost, but well worth it, and they put the ham into vacuumed 1lb packages. I ended up with two of them.

Well, the obvious question, was it any good? It was phenomenal, within a hair of the best I bought when I was in Spain, and far better than most I got there. The fat was super silky, the meat perfect, and even with 2lbs at hand, I still had to ration myself.

Victor is great to deal, and helped me through the choosing of the right leg. Worked out at about $100 a pound all in, which by Iberico standards, is very, very good. Highly recommended.

Forgot to mention the spicy chorizo is pretty good too.

Thank you Mark!!

I appreciate your comments!

[Jay_Miller]

So the obvious next question is how long will the sliced vacuum packed hams keep? And should they be refrigerated? And can they be frozen or is that inadvisable?

Speaking as someone with very limited counter space…

[Victor_Nebril]

As soon as the ham is vacuum packed will keep the properties. You also can freeze it and just take out from the freezer couple hours before be eaten. If you keep it in the refrigerator, just keep an eye on it to make sure the vacuum packing is in good shape. Often the packages can lose the vacuum and ruine the content, so as soon as you see the package lost the vacuum, eat it (with wine, of course). Make sure the ham takes the room temperature before eat it, so you’ll get all the flavor avoiding cold temperature.

I’d say that packages in the refrigerator can be in good shape for months 4-6 or even more. However, as much time more cured would be the ham as it is already sliced.

[Troy_Stark]

This is going to be dangerous…