how to cook ham hocks quickly I forgot to add them to pea soup. I'm a rookie

[Bernie]

cook...help?
Thanx everyone. I'm going with "Old Lady" and the chef for 8 years!
The chef for 8 yrs aka Richard

 

[JulesfromOz]

You can use chopped ham or bacon also if you like you could make a diet pea soup by using bacon stock cubes.

None of these are as nice as the ham hock but the ham hock is going to take a long time whatever method you use and you can use it to make baked Boston beans with later .

 

[sugarbee]

The only way to cook ham hocks quickly, would be in a pressure cooker.

 

[Jerry]

If you have a pressure cooker you can reduce the time by over half of what it would take to boil. use some of the soup to cook the ham hocks and then return to soup.

 

[Richard]

Just use bacon

 

[RichardK]

Put the hocks in a wide mouth pot and cover with cold water and crank up the flame. Unfortunately this is not a process that is quick.