Blade or shoulder is the generic name of the product retrieved from the front legs of the pig, salted raw and cured...
Blade or shoulder is the generic name of the product retrieved from the front legs of the pig, salted raw and cured in a natural way. It is the same process as the ham.
While the palette and the ham a same presented a very similar flavor, between the two there is subtle details that differentiate them: thus, palette tends to be more aromatic and slightly sweeter, though not for this flavor can say that ham has better flavor.
also while the Iberian palette weighs between 4 and 6 kilos and part of them is bone, the ham weighs between 6 and 9.5 kilos with lower proportion of bone, and this makes the palette cheaper. This is the difference that translates more directly in the price, since it has a lower yield compared with Iberian cured ham, and to compensate it lowers the price.
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