Lord Montgomery von Agoho
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Curing salt change colour
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It's still good. That is just the coloring fading out. Put it in a sealed well marked container. My curing salt does that all the time...no issues at all.
It’s still fine. As Inda said it’s just the coloring additIves that are fading not the salt or nitrite.
I had an order from the sausage maker a while back which contained 2 five pound jars of cure #1. When I received the package, it had been apparently run over at some point in shipping. They squared the box back up and re-taped it. The tape was full of cure #1. upon opening the box, one of the 5# jars of cure was busted and cure salt was free just laying in the bottom of the box ( 4# of the jar estimate) so I scooped up the cure and put it in a empty jar. I lost about a pound over all but I saved the rest. It turned very pale pink almost white. still using it and makes my meat just as pink as the newer stuff. Don’t throw it out. It’s fine chemically.
I had an order from the sausage maker a while back which contained 2 five pound jars of cure #1. When I received the package, it had been apparently run over at some point in shipping. They squared the box back up and re-taped it. The tape was full of cure #1. upon opening the box, one of the 5# jars of cure was busted and cure salt was free just laying in the bottom of the box ( 4# of the jar estimate) so I scooped up the cure and put it in a empty jar. I lost about a pound over all but I saved the rest. It turned very pale pink almost white. still using it and makes my meat just as pink as the newer stuff. Don’t throw it out. It’s fine chemically.
And that is what matters!
Some curing salts have no dye at all. Morton’s TenderQuick is white and the Peklosol in Europe is white like table salt. Different mixtures than cure #1 but still contain nitrite and no dye required.
Which is why I keep the tender quick in its original package. And out of the kitchen.
Pink in the curing salt is only to help in making sure the cure salt is mixed in properly with the regular salt.
It is also to alert you that this isn't regular salt.
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