Cold Smoked Bacon without Pink Salt...

double · February 15

So want to try the next batch of bacon without pink salt. Maybe substitute with Celery salt? Does anyone have any experience with this?

rtt121 · February 16

Both have sodium nitrite why switch?

NDG · February 16

Exactly what I was thinking. . . Read this

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/07/does-banning-hotdogs-and-bacon-make.html

rtt121 · February 16

Nice article. Here is a snippet: "By definition, cured meats must include the salts, sodium nitrite or sodium nitrate, so what about those expensive “nitrate-free” hotdogs and cured meats being sold to chemical-anxious consumers? They use “natural” sources of the very same chemical, such as celery and beet juice and sea salt. A chemical is still the same chemical, regardless of where it comes from. NO3 = NO3. They are no more free from nitrates and nitrites than conventional hotdogs."

double · February 16

And that's what I needed to show SWMBO thanks!

Little Steven · February 16

I would be real careful about that. Curing salts have a known quantity of nitrate/nintrite. I'm sure there is a little wiggle room in most of the home curing guides but the consequences of under curing are well known. Most of the curing mixes are derived from vegetable sources anyway so where is the payback?

billyray · February 16

Pink salts have 6.25% sodium nitrite. What does the celery salt have?

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