Too much cure? Maybe?
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If you used 3/4 cup of insta cure #1 you have probably made the meat unfit and unsafe for human consumption. With 18 pounds of meat and adding 3783 grams of water your amount of insta cure #1 would only be 30 grams of cure and your 3/4 cup would be 216 grams. You have added almost 10 times the USDA recommended maximum nitrites. Lethal doses of nitrites start at 4 grams and you used almost 60 times that amount. That is why cure is used at 1/4% to weight of meat, primary reason nitrite poisoning is uncommon in the food industry.
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I’m still not getting my original question answered. I’m going to try understanding this a different way. On the outside of the package of insecure there are instructions that state to a gallon of water add a half a cup of cure and spices to make a brine. Since this is what I was looking at when trying to cure my meat in the above two questions, when would you use this ratio of cure?
I do understand that the 1 teaspoon per 10 pounds of meat and that is what I’ve always used but please explain the above question. Thank you very much.
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I’m still not getting my original question answered. I’m going to try understanding this a different way. On the outside of the package of insecure there are instructions that state to a gallon of water add a half a cup of cure and spices to make a brine. Since this is what I was looking at when trying to cure my meat in the above two questions, when would you use this ratio of cure?
I do understand that the 1 teaspoon per 10 pounds of meat and that is what I’ve always used but please explain the above question. Thank you very much.
SCVDadCooks I have to ask is your product Insta Cure or insecure? If it is Insta Cure I make a brine for 16 pounds of meat and 1 gallon of water with 248 grams salt and 27.5 grams Insta Cure. That is about 4-1/2 teaspoons. I am at work right now so I don’t have weights to determine the 1/2 cup quantity. I do know Insta Cure is 93.75% salt and 6.25% sodium nitrite.
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I’m still not getting my original question answered. I’m going to try understanding this a different way. On the outside of the package of insecure there are instructions that state to a gallon of water add a half a cup of cure and spices to make a brine. Since this is what I was looking at when trying to cure my meat in the above two questions, when would you use this ratio of cure?
I do understand that the 1 teaspoon per 10 pounds of meat and that is what I’ve always used but please explain the above question. Thank you very much.
SCVDadCooks Short answer, you have used the amount of Insta cure to brine 85 pounds of meat in 5 gallons of water.
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Our product is Sure Cure which is also 6.25% Sodium Nitrite and the rest is salt. 1 oz of sure cure us enough to cure 25 lb of meat. I’m pretty sure it is the same with insta cure. It is also called Cure #1 Prague Powder, Pink Salts and a few other things.
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Our product is Sure Cure which is also 6.25% Sodium Nitrite and the rest is salt. 1 oz of sure cure us enough to cure 25 lb of meat. I’m pretty sure it is the same with insta cure. It is also called Cure #1 Prague Powder, Pink Salts and a few other things.
Jonathon that is why I think his brine is way over on cure. 3/4 cup of cure has 36 teaspoons of cure, which is approx. 216 grams. Going by what you say this is enough cure to dry cure 190 pounds of product or wet brine 150 pounds of meat in 5 gallons of water. This is primarily why I believe if people are going to dry cure and age meat, they need to throw away the volumetric measures (teaspoons and cups) and buy a good set of scales and learn percentage measures. This gets rid of if I only have 18 pounds of meat, now I have to eyeball 2/5 teaspoon cure to get 3-2/5ths teaspoons cure. Percentage measure: 25# meat would be 28.3 grams cure and when I only have 18# meat now I add 20.4 grams cure. Another huge advantage you will never over salt your product once you find the percentage salt to your tastes. This is my opinion only, but since I learned ratio measures from a custom butcher 20 years ago, teaspoons and cups should not be used in the sausage, cured and dry cured hobby.
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Jonathon that is why I think his brine is way over on cure. 3/4 cup of cure has 36 teaspoons of cure, which is approx. 216 grams. Going by what you say this is enough cure to dry cure 190 pounds of product or wet brine 150 pounds of meat in 5 gallons of water. This is primarily why I believe if people are going to dry cure and age meat, they need to throw away the volumetric measures (teaspoons and cups) and buy a good set of scales and learn percentage measures. This gets rid of if I only have 18 pounds of meat, now I have to eyeball 2/5 teaspoon cure to get 3-2/5ths teaspoons cure. Percentage measure: 25# meat would be 28.3 grams cure and when I only have 18# meat now I add 20.4 grams cure. Another huge advantage you will never over salt your product once you find the percentage salt to your tastes. This is my opinion only, but since I learned ratio measures from a custom butcher 20 years ago, teaspoons and cups should not be used in the sausage, cured and dry cured hobby.
Unionguy1019 I do everything in grams…sooo much easier. Cured meats aside, when I am formulating a fresh brat recipe I will start with 500 grams of pork and 10 grams of salt as a base. I’ll weigh out the seasonings I plan on using and write everything down. Once the recipe is finalized I simply multiply by 10 to make a larger batch which equals out to about 11 lbs of meat. Just add a zero to the measurements and you are good to go for the larger batch.
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Hey everybody I know the ratio for curing the meet is based upon weight to teaspoons
My question is why does the package of cure state to make a brine or marinade use half a cup of cure to 1 gallon of water. It does not relate to the weight of the meat when making a marinade or a brain
That is 4 ounces of cure or 24 teaspoons to a gallon of water
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SCVDadCooks Where does it say that? Not on sure cure. I am thinking maybe it says that on one of the ham or bacon cures? That would be because there are other ingredients aside from pink salts in them.
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Hey everybody I know the ratio for curing the meet is based upon weight to teaspoons
My question is why does the package of cure state to make a brine or marinade use half a cup of cure to 1 gallon of water. It does not relate to the weight of the meat when making a marinade or a brain
That is 4 ounces of cure or 24 teaspoons to a gallon of water
SCVDadCooks Somewhere in the recipe for the brine it probably references for 10 pounds of meat make a brine using… Plus the recipe is also allowing for the weight of a gallon of water.
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