Sodium Nitrite 10# Pail

[bob-whie]

Sale to the public? Here's a tragedy waiting to happen.
Though have heard using sodium nitrite to kill feral hogs.

 

[daveomak]

NOT THE SAME STUFF ​

YOU WANT TO ADD TO YOUR MEAT

FOR CURING....​

 

[DanMcG]

Not a bad price, just add a 150 pounds of salt and you're good to go. ;) ;)

 

[atomicsmoke]

NOT THE SAME STUFF ​

YOU WANT TO ADD TO YOUR MEAT

FOR CURING....​

Why not? It says is food grade.

 

[daveomak]

Atomic.... Not many folks can weigh out and adequately distribute the sodium nitrite on their meats.. The above mentioned stuff is for commercial processors....
If you were curing an 10# pork butt, you would add 0.70 grams of the nitrite to get 156 Ppm...
Using cure#1, 11.3 grams (2 tsp.) would be the adequate amount to add to get 156 Ppm...
Pretty difficult to get the small amount distributed..
Then there is the "it's not pink, and it is a lethal chemical" one would have to store safely...

 

[atomicsmoke]

Atomic.... Not many folks can weigh out and adequately distribute the sodium nitrite on their meats.. The above mentioned stuff is for commercial processors....
If you were curing an 10# pork butt, you would add 0.70 grams of the nitrite to get 156 Ppm...
Using cure#1, 11.3 grams (2 tsp.) would be the adequate amount to add to get 156 Ppm...
Pretty difficult to get the small amount distributed..
Then there is the "it's not pink, and it is a lethal chemical" one would have to store safely...

Got what you meant now.

 

[chopsaw]

I recently bought a small bottle of cure 1 from Academy sports to get me buy in a pinch .
Got home opened it up , I was surprised to see it had a shaker top on it . Just an invite for miss use .

 

[DanMcG]

Just an invite for miss use .

WOW, no kidding. :eek:

 

[dward51]

Well at least the funeral home will not have to do much processing..... You would already be "cured", preserved and ready for the underground dehydrator phase.....

Wow, never thought I would see a cure shaker or a 10# bucket of pure cure.

 

[indaswamp]

The sodium nitrite used to kill hogs is encapsulated like the citric acid we use in snack sticks. They have to do this to hide the smell of the sodium nitrite so they can get a dose large enough on the feed to kill the hogs. Dave is correct, it is not the same stuff.

 

[atomicsmoke]

The sodium nitrite used to kill hogs is encapsulated like the citric acid we use in snack sticks. They have to do this to hide the smell of the sodium nitrite so they can get a dose large enough on the feed to kill the hogs. Dave is correct, it is not the same stuff.

The link of the OP says "food grade" and for food processing. This is the real deal ...for meat curing....except is (almost) pure so needs to be dilutted with salt.

 

[indaswamp]

The link of the OP says "food grade" and for food processing. This is the real deal ...for meat curing....except is (almost) pure so needs to be dilutted with salt.

Well, I did not see the link. Moderators must have yanked it. Correct-pure sodium nitrite has to be diluted with salt 16:1 to make cure.