{"id":15331,"date":"2015-12-05T10:07:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T16:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=15331"},"modified":"2015-12-05T10:07:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T16:07:52","slug":"appleton-farms-ham-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=15331","title":{"rendered":"Appleton Farms Ham Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Appleton<\/a>I’ve written about\u00a0Appleton Farms products before<\/a>; \u00a0it’s the in-house brand that Aldi has. \u00a0This is about their “Butt Portion Bone In Ham Water Added.” \u00a0To me, it’s significant that “water added” is part of the main product description, and in the ingredients you’ll find a host of “salts.” \u00a0Salt + water = brine = increased product weight = deterioration of meat muscle and texture.<\/p>\n

At least to me. \u00a0Anytime I run into a brine injected muscle meat, the texture puts me off. \u00a0I’m sure it’s fine for the masses, tender, soft, but to me, it’s lost all connection to the animal flesh it started out as.<\/p>\n

This ham is smoked and otherwise, the flavor is good. \u00a0I was able to “save it” a pleasurable experience for me by pan frying slices of the ham, removing most of the water. \u00a0Aldi contracts with Gusto Packing<\/a>, outside of Chicago, to produce this ham. \u00a0Gusto also makes boneless hams and bacon on a contract basis. \u00a0The Gusto plant is pictured below.<\/p>\n

Gusto was purchased by Butterball a couple years back. \u00a0When searching for info on the company, I saw this story about one of Gusto’s \u00a0executives getting kidnapped<\/a> a few years back. For ransom. \u00a0You don’t see that much anymore.<\/p>\n

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I’ve written about\u00a0Appleton Farms products before; \u00a0it’s the in-house brand that Aldi has. \u00a0This is about their “Butt Portion Bone In Ham Water Added.” \u00a0To me, it’s significant that “water added” is part of the main product description, and in the ingredients you’ll find a host of “salts.” \u00a0Salt + water = brine = increased… Continue reading Appleton Farms Ham Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,16],"tags":[47,510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}