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badjak said:
Just an addition...
Saltpetre or potassium nitrate forms into potassium nitrite and the nitrite is what cures the meat.
For meat that cures for long times (like hams), a combination of potassium nitrate and nitrite is used.

Gone Hiking
Just make sure you double check the percentage you got against the one used in the recipe you follow.
Yours is most likely 6.25% nitrite, I can only get 8%, and most of Europe uses 0.6%
2 more good sites:
Making Homemade Sausage Len Poli's Formulations and Recipes
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Thanks for the links. Yes, Pink Salt #1 / Prague Powder #1 evidently has 6.25% sodium nitrite for short-term cures from what I've read, while Pink Salt #2 / Prague Powder #2 has 6.25% sodium nitrite + 4% sodium nitrate for longer cures of things like salami, prosciutto, etc. Based on how little is used (looking at online calculators), that 1.5 pound container should last me for years. I'll be smoking my pork belly and cooking the bacon soon, so we'll see how this goes!
 
Gone Hiking said:
Thanks for the links. Yes, Pink Salt #1 / Prague Powder #1 evidently has 6.25% sodium nitrite for short-term cures from what I've read, while Pink Salt #2 / Prague Powder #2 has 6.25% sodium nitrite + 4% sodium nitrate for longer cures of things like salami, prosciutto, etc. Based on how little is used (looking at online calculators), that 1.5 pound container should last me for years. I'll be smoking my pork belly and cooking the bacon soon, so we'll see how this goes!
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Make sure you get a good scale as you don't need much (as you have already noticed)
 
Gone Hiking said:
Thanks for the links. Yes, Pink Salt #1 / Prague Powder #1 evidently has 6.25% sodium nitrite for short-term cures from what I've read, while Pink Salt #2 / Prague Powder #2 has 6.25% sodium nitrite + 4% sodium nitrate for longer cures of things like salami, prosciutto, etc. Based on how little is used (looking at online calculators), that 1.5 pound container should last me for years. I'll be smoking my pork belly and cooking the bacon soon, so we'll see how this goes!
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I've got a bag of the pink stuff gifted to me by one of my husband's cousins at the beginning of the pandemic. I've not used it, though I had wondered if I could use it with a pork tenderloin to make "Canadian" bacon. I don't know what cut of animal they generally use for that, but I had found some pork tenderloins for $1.99 lb and thought they would be more tender than the traditional Canadian bacon. But I ended up making other things with those tenderloins...

But I have no idea what kind of curing agent it is, only that it is pink salt (no label), since it was just transferred into a ziplock when it was given to me.
 
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badjak said:
Make sure you get a good scale as you don't need much (as you have already noticed)
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How accurate? Or a set of those tiny measuring spoons? Or are they too imprecise? Grams scale sounds best.

A few years back got into an Irish spiced salt beef recipe. Pretty good but super salty. I had got hold of some saltpetre but tbh, reading all the chemistry advice here, I didn't know much about percentages etc. so could have been way off.

I also made some bresaola which was really pretty good. I later did get hold of some of that pink curing salt but never used it. Came across it recently which is why it came to mind.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I've got a bag of the pink stuff gifted to me by one of my husband's cousins at the beginning of the pandemic. I've not used it, though I had wondered if I could use it with a pork tenderloin to make "Canadian" bacon. I don't know what cut of animal they generally use for that, but I had found some pork tenderloins for $1.99 lb and thought they would be more tender than the traditional Canadian bacon. But I ended up making other things with those tenderloins...

But I have no idea what kind of curing agent it is, only that it is pink salt (no label), since it was just transferred into a ziplock when it was given to me.
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⬆️ Yeah, I've got an Escali 12 lb capacity down to 1 gram I got on Amazon a zillion years ago that still chugs along just great. The one in the link that looks like a CD case was around $100 but it's much more finely tuned.
 
The new-to-me product for me isn't food it is satellite internet service. Out here in the country, fast internet has been more scarce than hen's teeth. So we use satellite internet service There have always been two major problems with it. Firstly, the satellites are in high earth orbit so there is a delay of more than a second for the signal to transmit and receive. I could easily type faster than the system could handle. The other is metered bandwidth coupled with slow speed. That put streaming out of the question and it didn't matter because a single movie would gobble up a month's worth of available bandwidth. I've suffered with it for a very long time.

Enter Starlink. This is Elon Musk's low earth orbit system. It has been so expensive that its customers were mostly businesses ratner than consumers. The system has 3000 satellites 90% closer to our planet. The service is unlimited and 4 to 10 times faster than traditional satellite. The cost is the same. This will put the other satellite providers out of business if they can't match the service. I now have a subscription to Netflix and I can stream the movies to my heart's content. I can type at full speed. It is amazing.
 
blades said:
The new-to-me product for me isn't food it is satellite internet service. Out here in the country, fast internet has been more scarce than hen's teeth. So we use satellite internet service There have always been two major problems with it. Firstly, the satellites are in high earth orbit so there is a delay of more than a second for the signal to transmit and receive. I could easily type faster than the system could handle. The other is metered bandwidth coupled with slow speed. That put streaming out of the question and it didn't matter because a single movie would gobble up a month's worth of available bandwidth. I've suffered with it for a very long time.

Enter Starlink. This is Elon Musk's low earth orbit system. It has been so expensive that its customers were mostly businesses ratner than consumers. The system has 3000 satellites 90% closer to our planet. The service is unlimited and 4 to 10 times faster than traditional satellite. The cost is the same. This will put the other satellite providers out of business if they can't match the service. I now have a subscription to Netflix and I can stream the movies to my heart's content. I can type at full speed. It is amazing.
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Feel you on all that. There is -no- service here except what you can get on the phone at present unless you pay for metered service. The satellite peeps limit to 50 gigs/month and then slow you down so not paying for that. ATT has a device that is unlimited and works off the cell towers and I've a cell phone booster device otherwise I bounce between no service, no bars, or one bar. Rural is great, wouldn't trade it for anything, but it has issues in places that others don't see.
 
blades said:
The new-to-me product for me isn't food it is satellite internet service. Out here in the country, fast internet has been more scarce than hen's teeth. So we use satellite internet service There have always been two major problems with it. Firstly, the satellites are in high earth orbit so there is a delay of more than a second for the signal to transmit and receive. I could easily type faster than the system could handle. The other is metered bandwidth coupled with slow speed. That put streaming out of the question and it didn't matter because a single movie would gobble up a month's worth of available bandwidth. I've suffered with it for a very long time.

Enter Starlink. This is Elon Musk's low earth orbit system. It has been so expensive that its customers were mostly businesses ratner than consumers. The system has 3000 satellites 90% closer to our planet. The service is unlimited and 4 to 10 times faster than traditional satellite. The cost is the same. This will put the other satellite providers out of business if they can't match the service. I now have a subscription to Netflix and I can stream the movies to my heart's content. I can type at full speed. It is amazing.
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Starlink got allowed into this country a couple years back
Straight away, there were piles of them at the airport waiting for clearance.
A lot of them went out again over the borders to countries were they were not (yet) allowed.
Many many people here use them.
I am one of them. Our mobile signal is erratic and doesn't work at night (most likely a solar powered tower and an obsolete battery)
 
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