Jerry N.
TVWBB Emerald Member
Hoping for some ideas. I have a spiral ham to cook for Christmas Eve but I also want to cook Keri's baked beans. The problem is trying to get two things that need to go in the oven at different temps done at the same time. The ham is to go in the oven for 2.5 hours at 275°. The beans are supposed to cook for 1 hour at 350°.
Couple options:
Just cook the ham for the last hour at the higher temp and shorten up the over all time (worried about drying out the ham).
Do the beans on the stove. The recipe says simmer for 30 min. This seems the best thing, but I've never done them that way and the stove will be crowded too.
Use the slow cooker. The ham doesn't really fit in the slow cooker and I can't find any information on doing the beans in the crock pot other than to remove the lid toward the end to "tighten up the beans". This is what I'd like to do but I'd like a better idea of how to do that. The crock pot only has high or low heat settings.
Use the grill (gas) like an oven for the beans. Only worry here is that the bottom of the beans will burn if I'm not careful. There's a lot going on so being careful is not a great strategy.
Use the grill for the ham. I think I could get the temp low enough with one burner on and keep the ham over the unlit burners to be safe.
Bottom line is that I just don't want to screw this up. Everyone does their thing but mine are the ham and the beans and ruining either of them, especially the ham, would be very disappointing to me and a bit embarrassing.
Couple options:
Just cook the ham for the last hour at the higher temp and shorten up the over all time (worried about drying out the ham).
Do the beans on the stove. The recipe says simmer for 30 min. This seems the best thing, but I've never done them that way and the stove will be crowded too.
Use the slow cooker. The ham doesn't really fit in the slow cooker and I can't find any information on doing the beans in the crock pot other than to remove the lid toward the end to "tighten up the beans". This is what I'd like to do but I'd like a better idea of how to do that. The crock pot only has high or low heat settings.
Use the grill (gas) like an oven for the beans. Only worry here is that the bottom of the beans will burn if I'm not careful. There's a lot going on so being careful is not a great strategy.
Use the grill for the ham. I think I could get the temp low enough with one burner on and keep the ham over the unlit burners to be safe.
Bottom line is that I just don't want to screw this up. Everyone does their thing but mine are the ham and the beans and ruining either of them, especially the ham, would be very disappointing to me and a bit embarrassing.