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    Corned beef / pastrami question

    This is my first attempt at curing anything.
    Ordered some Prague Powder from Amazon.

    Ive got a 2.5 lb section of brisket flat, just under 2 inches thick, in 2 quarts of water.
    The curing calculator said I should use 1.3 teaspoons of cure and it should take 1.4 days.

    That doesn't seem very long. Should I be going longer?

    #2
    Recalculate and double check. It gives pretty much the absolute minimum time required.

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      #3
      ive always scaled with the calculator and have always had pink cure all the way through.

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        #4
        I just put your numbers in the calculator. The Prague powder is about right, but your time is way off. It says 5.4 days for a 2” thick piece of meat.

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          #5
          Just rechecked the numbers at it says 5.4 days.
          I must have used a 1 inch radius instead of 2 in diameter.

          5.4 days seems more like it.

          Problem seems to be between the chair and the keyboard


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          • Jerod Broussard
            Jerod Broussard commented
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            What ppm?? I like 150

          • BFlynn
            BFlynn commented
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            I did 150 ppm

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