Dextrose

[33roosters]

What can I use to replace powderd dextrose with? Just can't remember the ratio...(I must have a brain fart

) Thanks for any help 

 

[venture]

Dextrose is a sugar.  No surprise there.

About 70% as sweet as regular sugar.

That can vary if using raw or refined sugar.

Maybe Joe or one of our other sausage gurus will check in.

If not, I would ballpark replacing about 1/2 of the recipe amount of dextrose with regular sugar?

Good luck and good smoking.

 

[DanMcG]

Yeah 1/2 would be good, as long as its not a fermented sausage.

 

[venture]

There ya go!

Dan is one of our sausage gurus.

Thanks for weighing in Dan.

Good luck and good smoking.

 

[butcherfamily]

To expand on this, dextrose and table sugar should not be used as a replacement for each other. When making a fermented sausage, the chemistry is of utmost importance.  With a cured sausage, less of a difference, with a fresh sausage, even less.  But having said that, if a recipe called for dextrose, even if a fresh sausage, there is probably a reason. If you can, don;t substitute.  You can order and get dextrose in 2 days.