14 Ham Delivery Services to Make Holiday Meal Prepping a Breeze

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A ham is arguably the most important part of the Easter feast—so you might want to start thinking about arranging a ham delivery now. But buying and cooking this holiday centerpiece can be a bit intimidating. City or country? Cooked or uncooked? Glaze or no glaze?

Here are some tips for deciphering your ham options:

Fresh ham is available at the butcher, but most commonly, hams are sold cured in one of two ways. Wet-brined hams are called city hams; they’re usually smoked, sold on the bone, and ready-to-eat (a great option if you’ve got a lot of other labor-intensive side dishes planned for the holiday table). Country hams are cured with a dry brine. They’re rubbed with salt (and sometimes other ingredients), hung to dry and sometimes age, and can be sold raw, though many of the options on this list are smoked. Country hams are a bit more like prosciutto, while a juicy honey-baked ham is more likely to be a city ham.

How much ham do I need?

Bone-in hams should serve two to three people per pound, and boneless hams should serve four to five people per pound.

With all of that in mind, here are 14 places to order a ham delivery that will be the star of your Easter table.

City hams

Porter Road

Porter Road hams come from pastures in Kentucky, Tennessee, or Pennsylvania. They’ll arrive at your doorstep frozen, so you should allow for two days to thaw in the refrigerator. Though the hams are smoked, and therefore arrive fully cooked, you’ll need to make a glaze, then bake for around two and a half hours.

Porter Road Half Ham

$84.00, Porter Road

Harrington’s of Vermont

Harrington’s of Vermont offers spiral sliced party hams, which are cured in Vermont maple syrup and slowly smoked. These hams are available in sizes ranging from seven to 16 pounds.

Harrington’s Spiral Sliced Party Ham

$90.00, Harrington’s of Vermont

Rastelli’s

Rastelli’s offers a comparably affordable boneless ham. For $45 you’ll get a hardwood-smoked four-pound ham from Duroc-breed pigs that are raised in the Pennsylvania Dutch country.

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Rastelli’s Boneless Carving Ham with Glaze

$45.00, Rastelli’s

Logan Farms

Logan Farms ships Cajun-spiced turkeys and hams glazed in their signature honey and spices through Goldbelly; hams arrive fully cooked, with the glaze on the side to be applied before heating.

$119.00, Goldbelly

Kansas City Steak Company

Ham? From Amazon? Yes, of course it exists. This smoked ham from Kansas City Steak Company is hickory smoked and arrives fully ready to eat (just reheat if you want to serve it warm).

$100.00, Amazon

D’Artagnan

D’Artagnan’s boneless smoked ham comes from pasture-raised Berkshire-breed pigs—a breed known for its rich marbling. Pick fresh or frozen.

$95.00, D’Artagnan

Harry & David

This spiral-sliced bone-in ham is precooked, easy to carve, and comes with a honey glaze which you can apply before reheating.

$100.00, Harry & David

Honey Baked Ham

I grew up in a family of long-time Honey Baked Ham loyalists. This brand is a staple in the Wahn household not just because of its convenience, but because we know the convenience doesn’t come at the expense of a delicious ham. You can get this fully-cooked bone-in half ham in sizes ranging from six to 10 pounds.

$80.00, Honey Baked Ham

Cajun Ed

First it’s a little spicy, then it’s sweet. This special honey glazed ham is great for people who think purely sugar-glazed ham would be improved by a good kick (though the exact spices used are part of a secret recipe). Cajun Ed’s ham ships nationwide from Goldbelly, comes spiral-sliced, and is five to seven pounds.

$109.00, Cajun Ed’s

Hickory Farms

This seven-to-nine pound spiral sliced ham from Hickory Farms is ready to eat—but you can also add the included glaze and give it a roast in the oven.

$90.00, Hickory Farms

Country Hams

Benton’s Country Hams

Benton’s is a family-owned butchery based in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee since 1947. All hams are ​​slow cured (they’re usually aged for 9-10 months, but they can be aged up to a year) using salt, brown sugar, and sodium nitrite. You can choose from smoked and unsmoked, as well as bone-in or deboned. They come unsliced and packaged in brown paper and cotton sacks. No matter what variety you choose, you’re getting one of the most beloved traditional country hams in the business. Pick up some of the country’s best smoky bacon while you’re at it.

$79.00, Benton’s Smoky Mountain Country Hams

Edwards Virginia Smokehouse

Edwards Virginia Smokehouse has been salting, smoking, and aging hams for distribution since 1926 (and the Edwards family has been making country ham as far back as 1800). Their boneless country ham is dry cured with salt, brown sugar, and black pepper and aged for 90 days. Though Edwards classifies this as a country ham, it comes fully cooked—smoked in hickory. Choose from a half or whole ham. You can also get a smoked bone-in country ham that features a glaze of brown sugar and honey. It’s available in a 10-11.5 pound size.

$89.00, Edwards Virginia Smokehouse

Father’s Country Hams

This spiral sliced ham from Father’s features a honey glaze made using all natural dry honey (honey that’s been dehydrated into flakes, granules, or powder), pure honey taken from bees on the Father’s Country Hams farm, and brown sugar. Again, it arrives fully cooked.

$68.00, Father’s Country Hams

Snake River Farms

Based out of Boise, Snake River Farms offers a signature Kurobuta ham that’s 100% Berkshire and can be purchased either with the bone-in or boneless. All hams are shipped frozen, so allow for two days of defrosting time.

$125.00, Snake River Farms

Originally Appeared on Epicurious