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Jambon de BayonnevsWestfälischer Schinken

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

Both PGI European cured hams; Bayonne is air-cured without smoke (French tradition), Westfälischer is cold-smoked (German tradition). Same anatomy, different finishing techniques.

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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Westfälischer Schinken
Pork · Leg

Germany's other PGI cured ham, from the Westphalian region in North Rhine-Westphalia — the second iconic German Schinken alongside Schwarzwälder. Made from pigs traditionally fed…

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Names by country

CountryJambon de BayonneWestfälischer Schinken
🇺🇸United StatesBayonne hamWestphalian ham
🇬🇧United KingdomBayonne hamWestphalian ham
🇫🇷FranceJambon de BayonneJambon de Westphalie
🇪🇸SpainJamón de Bayona
🇦🇷ArgentinaJamón de Bayona
🇲🇽MexicoJamón de Bayona
🇵🇹PortugalPresunto de Bayonne
🇧🇷BrazilPresunto de Bayonne
🇮🇹ItalyProsciutto di BayonneProsciutto di Westfalia
🇩🇪GermanyBayonne-SchinkenWestfälischer Schinken

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