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I would like to try an overnight butt smoke on my new RT 1250. I would like to use the extreme smoke setting all night long, with no smoke tube or anything else. I know that the temp will be around 180, and it will never get to 140 in 4 hours. So I’m going to inject it with a brine that has some...
A fellow barbecuist and curing guy asked me some questions about using TQ in a curing brine. Morton refers to this as a 'pickle brine' and has instructions on how to injection cure hams. The TQ instructions on the bag call for brine mix of 1 cup TQ and 4 cups of water. Online sources for home...
real simple curing brine:
for every 1 gallon of water, add:
1/3 - 1 cup sea salt (depending if you're on a lo-salt diet)
1 cup granulated sugar or Splenda174
1 cup brown sugar or Splenda174 brown sugar mix
1 tbsp cure no. 1 pink salt
stir thoroughly until clear amber color, pour over...