Pasture Raised 100% Iberico Ham | Jamon de Cebo de Campo by Fermin 14-16 lb
What you're actually buying
| Approximate weight | 14–16 lb, bone-in |
| Servings of 1 oz | about 113 |
| Cost per serving | about $6.10 |
The lowest cost per serving of any Ibérico whole piece we carry. Servings are an estimate based on typical edible yield once bone, rind and outer fat are removed.
Fermín Jamón de Cebo de Campo 100% Ibérico, 14–16 lb
Made from free-range 100% Ibérico pigs — both mother and father of pure Ibérico breed — living outdoors in the dehesa, the natural environment of the Ibérico pig, on a diet of grass, grain, roots and whatever nature provides.
Spanish labelling rules under the Ibérico Quality Norm require Ibérico products to state breed and feed percentages. The difference between grades comes down to those two things: the breed of the pig and what it ate. This one is 100% Ibérico breed, cebo de campo feed. Here is what that costs per bite against bellota and Serrano — at about $6.10 a serving, the gap to a black-seal leg is wider on the price tag than it is per mouthful.
Cured using artisanal methods in La Alberca, Salamanca, a natural reserve declared a World Heritage site.
All natural. Gluten and lactose free. No nitrates or nitrites added.
Ingredients: 100% Ibérico pork ham, salt.
How to know it's the real thing
Spanish law (Real Decreto 4/2014) requires every Ibérico leg to carry a coloured seal on the hoof declaring breed and feed. Four colours, no ambiguity:
- Black — bellota 100% ibérico: pure Iberian breed, acorn-fed, free-range
- Red — bellota ibérico: crossed breed, acorn-fed, free-range
- Green — cebo de campo: free-range, fed on grass and grain
- White — cebo: grain-fed, raised indoors
This piece carries the green seal: free-range in the dehesa, fed on grass and grain rather than acorns — and from a 100% Ibérico-breed animal, which is not true of every green seal on the market. How to check that seal yourself, with the leg in front of you.
Worth reading before you commit to a whole leg
- How much jamón do I need? — 113 servings feeds about 56 people at 2 oz each. This works out your own guest count, and prices the same party three ways.
- How to carve a whole jamón — first cut, which way the leg faces, what the stand and knife cost, and how to keep the cut face covered between sessions.
- Bellota vs cebo de campo vs serrano — the four legal grades, and the cost per serving of six whole pieces side by side.
- The Ibérico buying guide — seals, cost per bite, bone-in vs boneless, and keeping a piece once it is open.
