Butcher Pork Ham

[Nyksta]

I am wondering how most butcher shops handle Ham for whole pig processing. In the spring I had a whole pig processed and I requested the hams smoked to 160* fully cooked. The shop said that they wont offer fully cooked. Is it an unusual request for fully cooked, or is am I just shopping at the wrong place. I am looking for what I should look for with the next pork.

[nitro]

Think I was told......and I don't handle the smokehouse that by health laws in Canada they have to be cooked to 160.I know we do or did.......

[oldgutpile]

Everything I have read and discussed with meat inspection, is for an internal of 154
We typically smoke to 156-160
Keep in mind that most commercial places can’t smoke one or two hams and be economical. It only pays to fire up the smokehouse with a full load, so to ask for extra time and temperature for two hams doesn’t pay. Our smokehouse holds four hundred pounds, which typically means a minimum of 12-20 hams