tommix wrote:Robert, so are tumbled hams the same as Canadian Bacon and how close is Lonzino to Canadian Bacon?
No; - in a sense thankfully not
Broad definition of a tumbled ham 'sh*te in a casing -- sorry you had to ask
One must remember that in the late 60's early 70's large producers got away from producing quality items such as ham we know of our younger days. There were a lot of lean trimmings that would in a sense get turned into sausage which was not (to the company’s) a high profit maker in their eyes so in the R & D departments they devised a way to take very cheap lean pieces of pork place them in a tumbler under (a given) vacuum for allotted time along with additives, extenders and maybe meat glue then place in a waterproof cooking bag/casing and cook for the appropriate amount of time. Black Forest ham is another one maybe not as bad as they do use leg meat but in a sense just as bad
If you look at the photo that I pulled of the web you will notice the two dark spots at twelve o clock – in my very umbel opinion (having worked with the stuff) I would hazard a guess that it is shank meat, the other way to tell a tumbled ham is that there is no defined muscle structure
how close is Lonzino to Canadian Bacon
In plain English --- a few thousand miles apart
--- in all seriousness Lonzino is dry cured where as Canadian Bacon in most instances is wet cure – both use the loin
HTH