I've only been a member here for a short time but have been 'Q'in' & smokin' meats for a long time. I've got some wet curing brines that were originally written for using Prague Powder. No mention if #1 or #2; just Prague Powder. Finally determined after some research that they were calling for what we call today, Cure #1. So far, so good.
Turned out that Cure #1 was difficult to obtain locally unless I was willing to drive 100 +, round trip, to get it from a butcher shop. I did some further research and discovered that Morton's Tender Quick would work for my application, so I determined the recipe change and wrote it up that way and stored it in my computer. This was over 30 years ago.
Cure #1 is still difficult to obtain locally and I've seen some other brine recipes on this site and a couple others that I just recently joined and they call for Cure #1. I'd like to try them using Tender Quick, but don't remember what the conversion process entails. Can anybody here point me to an article or web source that might contain that information? Or do you happen to know what the conversion is?
I've been able to find a couple of clues that say to replace the salt called for in the recipe using Cure #1 with Morton's Tender Quick in equal amounts and then drop the Cure #1 because the sodium nitrite is already in the Tender Quick.
I've already determined from reading on this site and others that Cure #1 is actually a better product to use, but I already have a good supply of Tender Quick and would like to use that instead.
Turned out that Cure #1 was difficult to obtain locally unless I was willing to drive 100 +, round trip, to get it from a butcher shop. I did some further research and discovered that Morton's Tender Quick would work for my application, so I determined the recipe change and wrote it up that way and stored it in my computer. This was over 30 years ago.
Cure #1 is still difficult to obtain locally and I've seen some other brine recipes on this site and a couple others that I just recently joined and they call for Cure #1. I'd like to try them using Tender Quick, but don't remember what the conversion process entails. Can anybody here point me to an article or web source that might contain that information? Or do you happen to know what the conversion is?
I've been able to find a couple of clues that say to replace the salt called for in the recipe using Cure #1 with Morton's Tender Quick in equal amounts and then drop the Cure #1 because the sodium nitrite is already in the Tender Quick.
I've already determined from reading on this site and others that Cure #1 is actually a better product to use, but I already have a good supply of Tender Quick and would like to use that instead.