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Tender Quick

b0atnutz
b0atnutz Posts: 34
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Good morning everyone, getting ready to do my first batch of home made sausage, ingredients call for tender quick she arched high and low yesterday at all the local grocery stores none to be found. Can I use pink salt for a substitution? Thank You Jerry
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  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    From what I understand pink salt has 6.5% of nitrite/nitrate while tenderquick is a 1% blend. I've heard that it has a 50-50 ratio of nitrite to nitrate. You are fine with pink salt as long as you use a recipe intended for pink salt. Not to be insulting but Himalayan or any of the boutique pink salts are not for curing. As I understand it you need to cut pink salt with kosher salt to get down to the 1% ratio.

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

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  • Capt7383
    Capt7383 Posts: 46
    Go to smoking meat forum. Once there go to sausage forum and do a search or ask
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