Honey Baked Ham

The Honey Baked Ham Company

The Honey Baked Ham Company is a food retailer which sells hams, turkey breasts, and other pre-cooked entrées, side dishes, and desserts. It was founded in 1957 in Detroit and is currently headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. As of June 2020, it had 492 outlets across the United States.

Honey

Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants or the secretions of other insects, like the honeydew of aphids. This refinement takes place both within individual bees, through regurgitation and enzymatic activity, and during storage in the hive, through water evaporation that concentrates the honey's sugars until it is thick and viscous.

Baking

Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most commonly baked foods in 2025 were bread and rolls. Heat is gradually transferred from the surface of unbaked goods to their center, typically at elevated temperatures surpassing 300 °F. Dry heat cooking imparts a distinctive richness to foods through the processes of caramelization and surface browning. As heat travels through, it transforms batters and doughs into baked goods and more with a firm dry crust and a softer center. Baking can be combined with grilling to produce a hybrid barbecue variant by using both methods simultaneously, or one after the other. Baking is related to barbecuing because the concept of the masonry oven is similar to that of a smoke pit.

Ham

Ham is pork from a leg cut that has been preserved by wet or dry curing, with or without smoking. As a processed meat, the term ham includes both whole cuts of meat and ones that have been mechanically formed.

honey

Noun

1. A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
2. A variety of this substance.

Adjective

1. Involving or resembling honey.
2. Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.

baked

Verb

1. simple past and past participle of bake

Adjective

1. That has been cooked by baking.
2. Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.

ham

Symbol

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Hewa.

Noun

1. The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
2. A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.