Friday - ¡La fábrica de jamón!

Our last stop on Friday's excursion was at a ham factory.  The Spanish are VERY fond of jamón ibérico (Iberian ham).  It is a special ham that comes from pigs that are only fed acorns.  It is nothing like the ham we eat, it's salted and cured, more like jerky.  A top quality ham will fetch 160 euros.

Getting dressed!

In the salting room

The hams are first put here, 1 day for every kilo

The next stop is the cooling room

on to the curing room

The hams cure for 3 years before they're sold

A vegetarian's nightmare

mucho jamón

To test if it´s good or not, a bone pick is inserted and smelled.

Sampling the goods at the end!