I am planning to use Walton’s products for most of my cured products that I will be making in the processing facility that I help manage. It is a USDA Inspected facility and as a part of the HACCP Pre-Requisite program we have to have a formulation sheet available for all the cured products that we make. The formulation sheet has to include the weight of each individual ingredient in a batch of 100 pounds of meat block. The formulation sheet will be used to verify weight records for nitrite and sodium erythorbate. Any suggestions on how I can get these amounts figured out for my HACCP Plan?

So I am wondering what the preferred method is for grinding beef and pork trim into ground product. I recently just got a new mixer/grinder and I am looking into all the different sizes of plates and knives that I can buy for it, such as 1/4", 1/8", 3/16". As far as methods go, does everyone prefer switching plates for a course and fine grind? Just course grinding twice? Any other methods that anyone prefers? I will be mixing in seasonings for pork sausage, snack sticks, summer sausages, and other further processed products like that into the mixer/grinder. Just wanting to figure out the best plates to use to make the highest quality ground products that I can.

processhead do you normally use the same plates and grind through twice? Or do you grind once with one plate and then switch to a smaller plate and grind again a second time?

I will be pumping 30 pounds of bellies tomorrow to make bacon. I have a 5 lb bag of bacon cure that says to use 1.75 lbs. of cure to a gallon of water for a 10 percent pump. I am wondering how much brine I need to mix up to have enough to pump all 30 pounds of bellies?