Corned Beef Brine

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Corned Beef Brine

Postby ghalalb » Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:54 pm

I'm from New Zealand originally, where you can buy a corned silverside at every supermarket and butchery in the country. I was pleased to stumble onto this site, and have tried making my own a few times now.

I started with the Irish Corned Beef cure that is available on this site. I have since made my own using the following

50gm Salt
30gm Sugar
20gm Cure #1 (purchased from this site)

I've boiled this in 1 litre of water, allowed it to cool, taken 1kg of brisket and vacuum sealed for 10 days. I found this recipe somewhere in the forum here.

Is this safe, or am i poisoning myself?

thanks for any guidance anyone can offer.
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Postby wheels » Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:34 pm

Hi and welcome. :D

That brine is a bit high on the cure level according to commercial standards of cure levels.

A brine with the correct levels would be:

Water - 500gms
Salt - 25gms
Sugar - 15gms
Cure #1 - 4gms

This is the amount for 1kg meat - under this method of curing you must use this cure in proportion with the meat, so if you cure a 2kg piece of meat double the cure ingredients, 500gm piece - half the ingredients, 1.4kg meat - multipy cure ingredients by 1.4 etc.

Also, cure #1 is a somewhat volatile substance that reacts very quickly - so I wouldn't boil it with the rest of the ingredients - add it afterwards when your brine is cold.

Your 10 days per kg timing is fine.

I hope this helps.
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Postby ghalalb » Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:06 pm

wheels, my sincere thanks, i will follow your guide on my next piece of beef.

cheers
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Postby wheels » Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:03 pm

Hopefully it will be OK. Let us know how you get on.

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Postby Richierich » Wed Dec 09, 2009 7:46 am

Good timing on the question, the answer along with others elsewhere satisfied one or two questions I had....

Thanks!
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Postby wheels » Wed Dec 09, 2009 3:12 pm

Please note that the cure I posted is 'technically correct' but it is untried; whether it will produce a good product is another matter.

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Postby ghalalb » Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:57 pm

Hi Wheels

Perfect! In every way!

thanks
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Postby wheels » Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:06 pm

I'm glad, and relieved, that it worked well!

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