I mixed up a batch of pops brine last night
1-gal water
1 cup sea salt
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 TBS cure#1
1 TBS garlic powder
1 TBS onion powder
1 TBS molasses
This weighed in at 8 lbs
I put a 3.33 pound pork tenderloin in there. (Cut into thirds and injected in middle) its is currently in my beer/meat fridge which I adjusted to 37 degrees.
My question is : is this enough cure? My understanding(NEWBIE) is you need enough cure for your entire slurry( which ended up right at 13 lbs) which according to digging dogs calculator is 13.1g. I'm not sure where that falls in the tablespoon world that I live in, but if need be I can borrow my dads gunpowder scale and do the math. By m crude math of 1 level tsp per 5 lbs., I am just a tad heavy on cure I guess...hmmm. maybe I just answered my own question??? Thoughts???
as a note, I went ahead and blindly put it in the brine knowing that I could add more cure if needed.
Also, it is 2&1/4" thick a its thickest, how many days in the brine? Was gonna go 12 unless I can pull it at 8, that would be cool.
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1-gal water
1 cup sea salt
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 TBS cure#1
1 TBS garlic powder
1 TBS onion powder
1 TBS molasses
This weighed in at 8 lbs
I put a 3.33 pound pork tenderloin in there. (Cut into thirds and injected in middle) its is currently in my beer/meat fridge which I adjusted to 37 degrees.
My question is : is this enough cure? My understanding(NEWBIE) is you need enough cure for your entire slurry( which ended up right at 13 lbs) which according to digging dogs calculator is 13.1g. I'm not sure where that falls in the tablespoon world that I live in, but if need be I can borrow my dads gunpowder scale and do the math. By m crude math of 1 level tsp per 5 lbs., I am just a tad heavy on cure I guess...hmmm. maybe I just answered my own question??? Thoughts???
as a note, I went ahead and blindly put it in the brine knowing that I could add more cure if needed.
Also, it is 2&1/4" thick a its thickest, how many days in the brine? Was gonna go 12 unless I can pull it at 8, that would be cool.
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