On Dec 7, 2:48*pm, wrote:
> How well does cooked ham freeze? Reason I ask is that I cooked an eleven pound
> ham the other day for my wife and myself. There was a LOT of leftovers. More
> than we can finish before it goes bad and I hate to waste any of it. I've never
> frozen ham before and I wondered if what seems to be a high water content in a
> ham, at least before it's cooked, will make for a lot of ice crystals and ruin
> the meat. Thanks. (I do have a vacuum packer if that makes a difference.)

I regularly freeze leftover slices of ham. I separate them with film
so they are easy to separate out for a portoin or two at a time and
wrap well in film and then in foil. It freezes just fine with no
detriment to the texture.