It would take only 30-35 grams potassium nitrate (two tablespoons) consumed in a single dose to cancel your clock! But who is going to swallow 2 tablespoons of pink salt? A fatal dose of potassium nitrite is 22-23 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. A person weighing about 160 pounds would have to consume 14-1/2 lbs. of cured meat containing 200 ppm. As nitrite is mixed with large amounts of salt, it would be just about impossible for a wranglin' cowboy to consume that much nitrite in one sitting... even for a munchmouth like me... at least from a culinary point of view.Heck, I still can't keep this straight in my head but nites and ates are safe at any concentration as long as they are added to the meat in the form of sea salts and/or organic dehydrated celery juice since you don't actually add them but if using a refined curing salt in known quantities one must dawn the hazmat suit. Have I got that right?
Best Wishes,
Chuckwagon
