White Dots after smoking? Or were they there prior to smoking?
It's a pre-mixed dry cure from "misty Gully". Sold in Australia. We had another member recently that was using thatExplain your curing process...did you inject brine? Did you wet brine? And what brine was used? Sounds to me like it was something in the brine....
Ok, I’ve researched the Misty Gully cure web page and they do not list any bacon cure, only cure #1 and #2 and other salts, but other vendors do carry their bacon cure in regular and in maple, I’m not sure which you used. I’m also not able to find the ingredients for any of their bacon cures so I have to guess at salt concentration. That said, you noted 60g per 1.5Kg meat. This equals 4% cure mix to meat by weight. If the majority of the ingredients are sodium then I’m going to guess about 3% sodium (salt) by weight. Given that I’m going to further guess that the small white dots are in fact salt crystals. I’ve seen this effect in some old school dry rubbed hams that I’ve done in the past where salt was in the 4% range.Pre made curing rub (misty gully) correct amount of cure 60g to 1.5kg pork. Rubbed the pork with the rub using disposable gloves in an aluminium foil tray. Placed into zip lock bag and refrigerated, flipped daily for 5 and a half days. Hot smoked on Webber Q at 100-110 C
This makes me question your application of the cure mix, or question the mix it’s self as far as the blending of nitrite evenly.I've just sliced it up. Looks like roast pork up towards the top in the middle. Some of the fat was like clear jelly.
I cut some off and cooked it in the fry pan. The bottom tasted like bacon, the top like salty pork. Now I'm concerned that I probably shouldn't have eaten it and now worried I'm going to get food poisoning.
I think I'll feed this to the dogs over the next week or so.
The typo made me think you used a bag . You didn't so that rules that out . You can see where the fibers stuck to the ones I posted , and it resembles what you have . My next guess would be salt crystals , but what ever guess we put out , 5 1/2 days in the cure is not long enough . The fact that some of it is uncured proves that . Find a proper method and start over . I very seldom tell someone to toss something , but in this case I would trash it .No bags were used.