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- Sat Oct 23, 2021 09:05
- Forum: Dry Cured Meats and Sausages
- Topic: Cure #2 with different percent of sodium nitrate
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Re: Cure #2 with different percent of sodium nitrate
Yes 5g/kg of nitrite works out to 312ppm and double the recommended USDA amount. The Sausagemaker Cure 2 formulation has only only 1% nitrate and that amount works out to 52ppm, quite negligible when the USDA limit is 1718. The amount of the Cure #2 in the recipe is obviously an error. However, I d...