Corned beef from scratch

BoiseBGE

I know that some of you make your own corned beef. I happened upon some corned beef cure and was wondering who had a recipe. Can’t seem to find one. I didn’t purchase nitrates, so this will be a couple week process I am guessing. Do you use pickling spices?

lkapigian

Since Pastrami starts off as Corned Beef- Start Here

https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1205811/holy-grail-pastrami/p1

alaskanassasin

This is from they joy of cooking. I have used it with success. After it’s cured and you are ready to cook, rinse all the salt off you can. bring it to a boil the dump the water, start over with with fresh water for the cook, this helps get the salt off. 
  

The Cen-Tex Smoker

BoiseBGE said:

I know that some of you make your own corned beef. I happened upon some corned beef cure and was wondering who had a recipe. Can’t seem to find one. I didn’t purchase nitrates, so this will be a couple week process I am guessing. Do you use pickling spices?

Man vs meat pastrami (same as modernist cuisine cure recipe)

The Cen-Tex Smoker

http://manvsmeat.com/blog/2013/9/2/pastrami

Just leave the rub off and skip the smoking part and you’ll have corned beef (or don’t because pastrami is awesome)

BoiseBGE

So I started the corned beef on July 5 and forgot about it. I didn’t use nitrates, think it is still edible?

BGEChicago

I followed meatheads recipe for corned beef and pastrami, no regrets and didnt alter it in any way! I'm doing a second batch this week... Here is the link to the thread;
https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1214861/pastrami#latest