The Process of Cooking a Christmas Ham

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to cook a ham. So now that our oven has come up to five hundred degrees, we've put our ham into our oven, we're going to let it cook for about twenty-five minutes, at which point we're going to kill the heat completely on the oven. Then we have to let it sit for three hours. Don't open your oven door, don't mess with the oven, just trust it. It's going to be okay. So just to recap; ham goes into the oven at five hundred degrees for twenty-five minutes. At the end of twenty-five minutes, you turn the oven off. What's going to happen is the water and the pan and the oven itself are going to maintain enough heat in there to keep your ham out of the lethal food poisoning range. And at the end of three hours, then you're going to turn the heat back up and you're going let it go for half an hour, but we'll deal with that stuff when we get to it, so. This is not something you want to do, not something you want to leave your house when you do either. It's a good way to burn you house down, so. You want to just, at least while the heats on. Once the heat is off, you're fine and also on the second time, before we come back the second time, we're going to check and make sure there's enough water on our ham. But you want to keep your oven door only opened and closed just a brief couple of minutes. So with that, I guess I'll see you in about three hours."