Hi everyone, I am new to curing but very keen due to this site and a couple of books (Maynards Manual of trad. bacon curer, Eraldsons Home smoking and curing and HFWs Meat).
Going to try some dry cure bacon asap!
I have just recieved my order of All purpose curing salt and Plain brine cure(from here). I ordered these before finding all of you folk! I figured they would provide an easy safe start.
As I can see there some ambiguity as to the exact composition of the All Purpose Cure. I may be able to shed some light...
It comes in a blue plastic bag (bear with me!) with a paper label placed over another. The outer label says ingerdients salt and preservatives E251, E450, and advises usage rate of 15g/kg meat.
The under label (read by shining a torch through) reads:
Supersalz Cure Compound code 4001
Not for resale
This is made by a food chemicals company found by Googling the above name. They do not sell to domestic customers so I have no issue with the resale. I have ordered a catalogue and will try to find out the exact composition.
Could any more comercial folk here get in touch?
Hope this helps, and thanks for all your knowledge so generously provided. I may need to call on you soon!
C