Shawn, this is not terrific news.
Just checking here with you. What you seem to imply is one of the slabs has approximately double the amount of cure #1 and you can't tell which one.
Firstly, I'd go back to the process. How sure can you be that you really did give that extra amount? What else would it have been? Do you seperately weigh the salt and cure, or do you first add the cure and then top up with salt. May your additional weigh have been salt and not cure? If it's salt, it really doesnt matter, but you have to be sure.
Then lets say you doubled the cure #1 then from 0.25% to 0.5%. What then? What does that mean?
Well, it's not a recommended safe dose but if you ate 100grams in a sammich you are unlikely to know. But that's you. What happens: The nitrate converts to Nitric Oxide. Nitric Oxide bonds to Haemoglobin and reduces Oxygen carrying capacity. If you had the same bacon sammich for several days in a row, you might feel it, but then stop eating the bacon and then slowly improve. Eating the bacon is not catastrophic.
However... knowing this, who are you going to serve it to. Most likely nobody. Not even the dog.
So unless you can exclude the process of weighing the Cure in the process, the first thing to do is trash the lot and the second thing to do is buy a scale that will measure in 0.1 gram increments.
Sorry. I really wanted some of that.
Bill
