Occassionally I am looking for a recipe for smoked sausage or meat and find no call for nitrite or nitrate. I consider the reputation of the author and conclude that it is a good recipe with an error that slipped past the author, the proof reader and the editor.
With the admonition that if it hasn't been cured it can't be smoked, I read everything twice and make the correction.
errors of ommission
errors of ommission
Ross- tightwad home cook
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Ross, since I consider the safety of the sausage I make to be my responsibility, I don't ever take a recipe at face value regarding the amount of cure, nor do I make any inference, positive or negative, about the author. I just think it is my responsibility to calculate the correct amount of cure to be safe. It could be an omission, or it could just be an old (unsafe) recipe that was more lucky than right, or it could be a typo; regardless, the bottom line is that the sausage to be smoked needs enough cure to be safe. I double check the figures, even if I trust the author.
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Don't tell me the odds.
Don't tell me the odds.
The ones that I refer to here are the same recipe published in a book and on line and the on line version is lacking the inclusion of the cure.
Tom , your determination to accept responsibility for your own safety is what I was hoping to alert readers to as everybody bears some responsibility for their own safety.
Tom , your determination to accept responsibility for your own safety is what I was hoping to alert readers to as everybody bears some responsibility for their own safety.
Ross- tightwad home cook