How to mount a ham?
I bought a Serrano ham on sale. It's the whole pig's leg, and it comes with a kind of a stand. However, the stand was delivered in pieces like IKEA furniture, but unlike IKEA, it has no manual explaining what goes where.
I'm especially puzzled about the large ring and the small trapez-without-base shaped pieces. Once must go up to hold the ankle, the other one down to hold the haunch. But which goes where, and how do I fasten the ham to the metal? Do I have to screw the metal screws through the bone?
The picture shows all parts delivered, only the inbus key is not in the frame. I put the trapezoid part onto the lower hole and started fastening it with a pointy screw; it's quite a long screw (7-8cm).
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This should help, it's not precisely exact, but you can probably figure it out from here.
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OK, after some fitting of screws and so on, I think I managed to find the correct fit. Jolene's picture also helped.
The two pointy screws get indeed screwed into the ham, but there is enough flesh and sinew that I don't have to go into the bone with them. This is lucky, because getting a screw in when using only a tiny L-shaped "screwdriver" greased with pig fat is hard work even when it's sinking into soft material.
One thing not visible from the picture: The long pointy screw goes through the middle of the black trapezoidal holder straight into the haunch.
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