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Jambon de BayonnevsPresunto de Barrancos

pork · Close equivalent

These cuts are closely equivalent — the same or nearly identical cut across different butchery traditions.

Both PGI European cured hams from southwestern Europe; Bayonne uses the Adour basin and standard breeds, Barrancos uses the Alentejo and Iberian black pig.

Translation takeaway

These are near equivalents in the way butchers and cooks use them. If you can source either one, you're very close to the same result.

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Jambon de Bayonne
Pork · Leg

France's PGI dry-cured ham, made from pigs raised in the Adour basin in southwestern France. Salt-cured (with salt from the Salies-de-Béarn salt springs), then air-dried for at…

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Presunto de Barrancos
Pork · Leg

Portugal's PGI-protected cured ham, made from the rear leg of the *porco preto Alentejano* — the Portuguese black pig, closely related to the Spanish Iberian pig and one of the…

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Names by country

CountryJambon de BayonnePresunto de Barrancos
🇺🇸United StatesBayonne hamBarrancos ham
🇬🇧United KingdomBayonne hamBarrancos ham
🇫🇷FranceJambon de BayonneJambon de Barrancos
🇪🇸SpainJamón de BayonaJamón de Barrancos
🇦🇷ArgentinaJamón de Bayona
🇲🇽MexicoJamón de Bayona
🇵🇹PortugalPresunto de BayonnePresunto de Barrancos
🇧🇷BrazilPresunto de BayonnePresunto de Barrancos
🇮🇹ItalyProsciutto di BayonneProsciutto di Barrancos
🇩🇪GermanyBayonne-Schinken

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Slicing steak, trimming small amounts of fat, chopping aromatics, and general kitchen work.

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