Cure weight/volume calculation.

[chef jimmyj]

I'm guessing Ya'll Canadians can feed your cattle Pineapple Cush Seed and get your crop of legal Weed going....JJ

 

[nanuk]

I'm in Saskatchewan, we can only grow 4 plants at at time..... and we can only buy ONE seed at a time.

crazy rules!

 

[indaswamp]

The cure #1 I use is colored with beet juice. I get it from a local smokehouse here in town. No idea where they get it from though.

 

[Oleg]

The cure #1 I use is colored with beet juice. I get it from a local smokehouse here in town. No idea where they get it from though.

I wish I could find one. Using celery juice is definitely more complicated.

 

[indaswamp]

If you can't find it, you can make it!
https://www.hgtv.com/design/make-and-celebrate/handmade/the-beet-goes-on

 

[indaswamp]

Or buy it and add to your own homemade cure...
https://www.seelecttea.com/powdered-food-coloring/1340-beet-red-food-color-powder.html

 

[zwiller]

I'm in Saskatchewan, we can only grow 4 plants at at time..... and we can only buy ONE seed at a time. crazy rules!

Not at all. Feminized seed, veg state to a few clones, PK yields 20oz per plant, 5lbs...

 

[Oleg]

Indaswamp and Zwiller, thank you for posting but the links are to food colorings, not cure.

 

[indaswamp]

That's why I said, "make your own"...
buy food grade sodium nitrite and iodine free salt.
Cure #1 contains 93.75% table salt and 6.25% sodium nitrite. Mix that up and add the beet powder coloring.

 

[indaswamp]

Food grade sodium nitrite:
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[indaswamp]

Here is a step by step on how to make it:
https://www.leaf.tv/articles/how-to-make-curing-salts/

Follow step one only. This is the recipe for cure #1.

Use a VERY ACCURATE scale and be percise with the weights.

 

[indaswamp]

for some reason, SMF won't allow links to amazon. You can find food grade sodium nitrite there...

 

[indaswamp]

99.99% pure sodium nitrite...

 

[indaswamp]

2# of pure sodium nitrite is enough to cure 13,600 pounds of sausage @ 156ppm. It will make 34 pounds of cure #1. You'll have more than enough. And you will not need to add much beet powder at all....just enough to color it and that is all. You do not want to dilute it more than necessary.

 

[chef jimmyj]

Wear Gloves while handling and Make sure that any young folks or animals can not access the Cure mix or, especially, the Pure Nitrite. Super Toxic stuff...JJ

 

[indaswamp]

Thanks for mentioning that jj!!

 

[indaswamp]

*edit to add:
the above link says to add 1 ounce of pure sodium nitrite to 1 pound of salt. This is incorrect. That would be a 5.88% Sodium Nitrite.
The correct ratio would be 1 ounce sodium nitrite to 15 ounces of table salt. This will give you the correct percentage of sodium nitrite dilution to 6.25%.

jj, would you check the math on that for me, thanks.

 

[chef jimmyj]

My calculator says...1oz / 16oz = 0.0625 X 100 = 6.25% The total weight of the mix is 17 ounces. How did you get 5.88%?...JJ

 

[daveomak]

1 oz. added to 16 oz. = 17 oz. 1 / 17 = 0.0588 ...

1 oz needs to be added to 15 oz. of salt.... 1 / 16 = 0.0625...

 

[indaswamp]

Dave's got it.

Thanks Dave...