Meat Curling Salt #2

Profile: A dry curing cure designed specifically for pepperoni, hard salami, genoa salami, proscuitti hams, dried farmers sausage, capicola, and other dry cured products.

Details:

These are foods that don't need to be cooked, smoked, or refrigerated. The sodium nitrate in Meat Curling Salt No. 2 works similarly to the time release capsules used for colds in that it breaks down to sodium nitrite and subsequently to nitric oxide to cure the meat over time. Some meats require up to 6 months of curing. Salt, sodium nitrite (6.25 percent), and sodium nitrate are all found in Meat Curling Salt #2. (1 percent ).

Usage Rate: 1 Level teaspoon for each 5lbs of meat. They should not be used at higher levels as results will be inconsistent, cured meats will be too salty, and the finished products may be unsatisfactory. The curing salts should be used only in meat, poultry, game, salmon, shad and sablefish.