This guy charges, and gets, up to $4,000 to slice a ham.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Spanish cortador de jamones Florencio Sanchidrián has cut ham for everyone from the King of Spain to Robert De Niro, and considers himself an ambassador for his country’s Iberian ham.

Snip......".I travel the world attending events where I can educate people about Iberian ham—one of the four gastronomic jewels of cuisine alongside truffles, caviar, and foie gras."

Snip........What are the traits of a great cortador de jamones?
"You must know the product inside out—its breeding and the area where the Iberian pig usually lives and grazes. Before cutting each piece of ham, you should check all of the corresponding labels because they provide all the information we need to know about that specific piece—everything from the birthplace of the pig to where it was stored, plus the humidity and air temperature. Besides all this, a good cortador de jamones should try to manipulate the joint as little as possible and when serving the meat, help people appreciate it with all of their senses."

https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/pgxkg8/this-guy-gets-paid-thousands-of-dollars-to-slice-ham?utm_source=vicetwitterus

[dameatball]

1. Why?? Is the ham still moving??

[Drahthaardogs]

5. Calling a jamon iberico a "ham" is like calling Secretariat a pony...

They are the finest cured piece of meat on the planet. Special pigs fed a special diet of only acorbs and dry cured by the Masters.

[Exotica]

8. Jamon iberico de bellota to be specific

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/18/guide-jamon-iberico-spanish-ham

Jamón ibérico de bellota
From pure Iberico pigs fed on a diet of acorns during the Montanera and granted DO status. These hams are aged for at least three years before being released and often labelled 'reserva' and 'gran reserva' to denote their age.

Jamón ibérico de recebo
Fed on a diet of cereals and acorns and aged for at least three years.

Jamón ibérico cebo de campo
Free range, but fed only on a diet of cereals.

Jamón ibérico de cebo
Commercially reared pigs fed on a diet of cereals.

Jamón de Trévelez
Produced from white pigs which have been fed on commercial cereals, this is still a very fine ham, which fans say has a sweetness that comes from the climate in which the pigs are reared.

Jamón de Teruel
The first jamon in Spain to receive DO status, these mountain hams must be aged for at least 12 months after curing before being sold.


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https://shop.7bellotas.com/en/iberian-ham-leg/40-jamon-7bellotas.html

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[Drahthaardogs]

9. I make four proscuitti every year

One day I will go to Spain to sample the jamon

[braddy]

2. I don't know about Iberian pork, but for sliced long pork you have to go to Harry, and you can only

get to his place by boat, and with an invite, but never go there alone.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Been meaning to do that.

[petronius]

4. Huh, a sommelier for ham - who woulda thunk?

I'd volunteer to do it for a lot less, but my ham-preparing skills are thus far limited to ripping open a zip-lock package: is there a career path in that?

[jberryhill]

6. How much if Trump has carnal knowledge of the ham?

Will he charge $130,000 to deny it?

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Well, in that case, like everything else he touches, the ham is ruined.