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    Safe to Eat? Pastrami

    I've been dry curing this for exactly 16 days, wedged in a ziplock very tightly. Cure is 2% brown sugar, 1.8% salt, and .0025% pink salt #1. Meat weight was 1214g. When I took it out of the ziplock there was a bunch of what looked like slime, and then smelling the meat it has a slightly sour...
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    Pink Salt Percentage for Pastrami

    Hi Everyone, First time posting, and I was hoping to get a clear answer on the best percentage of pink salt to use when curing for pastrami. I thought I'd post what I've seen as reference and if anyone would be up for it to go through exactly the variation I think I'm seeing and what's ok or...
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