I would like to make some sausages today. However, I do not have curing salt. I tried our local Smith's grocery shop they did not even know what I was talking about. Does anyone know any grocery stores or supermarkets that sell cure #1 or cure #2?
csaba
Try your local butcher shop. Cure 1 is for freash sausages and cure 2 is used for dried sausage, like pepperoni. You should be able to buy Morton Tender Quick at a market also.
I had to buy it online. I used alliedkenco.com
I went to 10 shops and markets and spent half the day driving around in Santa Fe, but I failed. At most places they did not even know what I was talking about. I am really disappointed. I will order it online, but I really wanted to make some dry sausages this long weekend. guess I still can make some fresh ones.
Online is the only place I know of. Shipping is a killer though. ButcherPacker is another place that has them.
The sausage maker has cure also. I would check them all out, like HCT said shipping is where the cost really increases.
So here are some choices,
http://alliedkenco.com/
http://www.sausagemaker.com/
http://www.butcher-packer.com/
http://www.eldonsausage.com/
Purchased Morton's TQ at the local Kroger's today. After losing all my canadian bacon and tasso to the ice storm, I gots lots of curing and snoking to do. I also had several pounds of smoked white cheddar cheese in the frig. In order to help several of my friends, I handed out lots of it for people to eat during the storm. Also gave awy lots of the canadian bacon as it was thawing. I now have orders to smoke more cheese and canadian bacon!!
Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread. Just excited to get to smoking! :D
KyNola
Quote from: KyNola on February 15, 2009, 10:02:50 AM
Purchased Morton's TQ at the local Kroger's today. After losing all my canadian bacon and tasso to the ice storm, I gots lots of curing and snoking to do. I also had several pounds of smoked white cheddar cheese in the frig. In order to help several of my friends, I handed out lots of it for people to eat during the storm. Also gave awy lots of the canadian bacon as it was thawing. I now have orders to smoke more cheese and canadian bacon!!
Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread. Just excited to get to smoking! :D
KyNola
Good on you KyNola! 8)
Only problem is... now you will never keep up! ;) :D
Mike
Mike,
Thanks but that's a great problem for me to have. You do what you have to take care of your friends. You guys have all been great support for Jan & me. We are forever grateful.
All the best to everyone,
KyNola
I just recently found out that cure #1 is a controlled substance in Canada and therefore very hard to find. I did purchase some of it from my local butcher.
Lumpy
I had finally found some cure #1 locally at a small German deli and meat market. I had to talk to the owner or his son to purchase some from them. The owner's son told me that cure #1 could be used to make explosives and was not normally sold over the counter. Anyway he sold me a couple of ounces and I used it to mix up a batch of dry cure: http://www.susanminor.org/forums/showthread.php?t=441
Worked fantastic with my first batch of back bacon: http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=9155.0
I have since ordered some on line....
~Nick
Nick, just curious, did you end up at Ditmers in Mountain View? With the Kuta's book you can pretty much top anything they have! Very over rated in my book.
Nick;
I would just double check with the owner, see if he sold you saltpeter instead of cure #1, and ask him how it is measured. I don't know that much about saltpeter (other then it is a main ingredient in gunpowder) and never cured with it, but I believe it is measured differently then cure #1 and the curing times may be different.
SS and Habs, It was Ditmers in Mountain View. I did purchase some ribs from them once but didn't care for them very much. It was the only place I could find cure #1. I'll have to agree that they are over rated but the owners were very helpful making sure I was getting what I wanted.
~Nick
Quote from: lumpy on February 16, 2009, 06:49:08 AM
I just recently found out that cure #1 is a controlled substance in Canada and therefore very hard to find. I did purchase some of it from my local butcher.
Lumpy
Lumpy
I don't have any problem getting cure #1 here in Saskatchewan or Western Canada for that matter. I can buy it at JB Sausage in Regina. It's called SuperCure but it's exactly the same. Here is their site listing the SuperCure.
http://www.jbsausagesupplies.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=25_52
Here is another supplier that sells Cure #1, in this case it's Prague Powder. The company is called Halford and Atlas Butcher Supply and is located in Edmonton, Alberta. Here's a link.
http://www.atlascutlery.com/
Here is another one in Langley BC called Stuffers Supply Company. I can't see the cure #1 on their site but I'm sure they sell it.
http://www.stuffers.com/
I'm sure it must be available in Eastern Canada as well. I would look through the yellowpages to find some sausage supply stores. If all else fails the links I supplied also ship but I would bet it is available closer to home.
Mike
Thanks Mike,
I will be on the phone this afternoon!
Michael
To me the problem seems to be that there is so many names for the same product. All I can get locally here is Mortons Tender Quick. The only way to know for sure is to read the product label. Some of the websites will not give out that info. Some are very specific but they do not give prices until you place an order and then they will talk to you. I did this once and when they showed me the prices they were higher than where I ordinarily get them. So I had to tell them sorry,they were not too happy about it. It seems to me a lot of them just do not want to help or please the customer. I know I do not order large amounts at one time but it adds up over the year. It gets pretty frustrating at times . Sorry but thats my rant. Dave
Someone mentioned that the shipping was high for the cures. The Butcher & Packer site, http://www.butcher-packer.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=237_12 (http://www.butcher-packer.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=237_12) charges the same shipping for three bags of Tender Quick as they do for one bag. Their shipping is based on the price of the order; $1 - $19.99 is $7.50.
I couldn't find it around here either.