Crispy Honey-Glazed Ham - How to Make a Honey Baked Holiday Ham

[richardradis]

Making this ham for the third year in a row. Winner with the family.

[GrammerAngel]

I worked at Honey Baked Ham for three Christmases, and we do indeed use a blow torch to do the hams. The hams come in 6 to a box, from a special supplier. We have 40 lb bags of the sugar, spice mix that gets dusted over the ham and it is hit with a blow torch. There are four of us working at a time. They are placed on a cooling rack, then they are wrapped, weighted and priced. Then it is off to the walk-in. We prep hundreds of hams a day during the holiday season. Honey Baked Ham is expensive, but it is a high quality product and the company treats their employees well. This recipe looks great, and I will be doing this for Christmas during the pandemic. Can't wait to try it!!

[thebookwyrmsclaws]

Who's back in 2023 for this amazing recipe? 🥰

[musicmanchristjesus]

Chef John, you are truly a legend!❤

This is the most amazing recipe ever! My family totally loved the ham and it looked and was so tasty!

Tip: for anyone who doesn't own a torch, in the last 5 minutes of your cooking time, put oven on High Broiler and it will caramelize it to perfection!!!😊

Thank you Chef John!!! We all love your cool teaching voice and have learned so many recipes from you!

May God continue to care and bless you! ❤❤❤

[XanimesecretsX]

I made this for Christmas dinner and it turned out amazing - best holiday ham ever! I saved the bone and made a yum lentil soup with it too.  Everyone said I should make it like this again next year - thanks Chef John!

[miamidee]

Made this last night with a Smithfield Spiral Ham. It came with a glaze package that I threw away. This recipe is fantastic and worked perfectly for my 8 lb bone in ham. I will say you don't have to baste every 20 minutes. More like every 30-40 minutes it was just fine, and I didn't have to torch it or broil or boost the temp up in my oven to get that carmelization. It looked perfect and tasted great. Great recipe Chef John. Perfect for Christmas Eve.

[christianpineda]

I've been doing this recipe for three years in a row and I can't get tired of the amazing results every time!

[xArcaNumx]

Just made this glaze recipe for my Easter dinner, the glaze itself is absolutely the best recipe I found anywhere on YouTube, although I did add a touch of ground clove to the mixture. The technique is Everyone else just kind of pours it over and cooked it for a long time the slow in and out reglaze and reglaze to build it's thickness and then torch it was amazing, if you buy a country ham like chef John you need to score it but if you buy a spiral cut you do not, do everything else the same though. Perfect recipe and a huge hit, thank you.

[michaeltan]

I come back to this every year. Great recipe! Thanks, Chef John!

[missgar]

I’m here every year, Merry Christmas folks!

[digitalgods]

Broke out my manly blowtorch and fired up this recipe for 2015 Christmas ham... I gave it the old toasta, toasta and this magic combination of ingredients came to life. Thanks Chef John.

[unknownuser]

JESUS CHRIST JOHN THIS WAS AMAZING. i decided to do this just for the experience because this was my first ham/turkey roast and my family usually doesnt like my cooking because its too healthy for them but i did this and they loved it for christmas eve dinner. i thought i was gonna end up eating 2 weeks worth of leftover ham but just my immediate family ate half of the entire 9.47 lb ham. my grandparents took the rest but my family still saved some for breakfast tomorrow. i also made a gavy with the clove water on the bottom and used some pineapple flavor in mine. what i realised is that i overglazed and the outside was really tough. i also did not want to carmelize the outside too much because the outside was already too dark from all the glazing. however, the meat was very flavorful and moist and the crust was so flavorful too that noone really cared about the toughness of the crust. anyways THANK YOU chef john this was reallly delicious i love you 

[Laura_Darkspear]

“I’m not even Rod Stewart!” You crack me up. 😆

[pignanelli]

Did this ham for a party today, and everyone raved! I just caramelized in the oven, blasting it with heat the last 20 minutes, after having patted the surfaced with additional raw sugar, adding to the sticky multiple-basting coatings. Worked like a charm!

[giovannmartinez]

Followed this recipe and took it to a Friends-giving. Received so many complements.

[MichiganPowersports]

I did this last year and will be doing the same thing this year. Thank you Chef John for this recipe!
I glazed about 2x the amount shown in the video. I pretty much doubled the recipe. I added some extra cayenne pepper for some more holiday spice. The tangy elements mixed with the cayenne really give this glaze the extra oomph.
Helpful tip: Remove some of the fat from the ham but not too much! Too much fat won't hold the glaze and too little fat will reduce the flavor.

[jrestrada]

Been making this ham 6 years in a row for the fam. It’s always a hit. Everyone looks forward to it

[ev]

2024 still using this recipe...5 years in a row, I am assigned the Ham, it's a given! Thanks Chef John!

[Me-mbex]

I’ve tried recipes from so many tv chefs for the holidays but Chef John’s recipes are the only ones that I consistently get rave reviews and future requests for from family and friends.😋

[acmulhern]

Your butcher must love you, because he sold you one beautiful ham.