{"id":1750,"date":"2013-06-28T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/protecting-iberian-hams\/"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T10:47:47","slug":"protecting-iberian-hams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Iberian hams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nDue to being very busy I have neglected my blog over the last few weeks. Anyway, amongst the many tours I have organised was one to the Sierra de Aracena at the end of last week. At the ham factory that we visited they were coating hams with a mixture of sun flower oil and lard (see photo below). The reason for doing this is to protect the hams from a mite. A large number of these mites can bore into a ham and make an enormous cavity which ends up with the ham being discarded with the subsequent finacnial loss. The oil and lard act as a barrier to the mite and are applied to the ham a number of times during the curing process.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-YNdnNWocKtI\/Uc1dGaaMDkI\/AAAAAAAAAyE\/bLk_sysqI_4\/s1600\/CIMG2278.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CIMG2278.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iberian ham tour<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to being very busy I have neglected my blog over the last few weeks. Anyway, amongst the many tours I have organised was one to the Sierra de Aracena at the end of last week. At the ham factory that we visited they were coating hams with a mixture of sun flower oil and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}