I went to the store and bought some ham. When I got home and started slićing it, I saw this.

sometimes collect unevenly in certain areas of the meat. In rare cases, fats, salt, moisture, and structural proteins may concentrate in one spot, creating a firm, discolored, grainy pocket inside the ham.

Although it may look alarming, this type of texture difference can happen during meat processing. The curing process changes the structure of the continue reading …