Curing salt in supermarkets?

csakis · February 14, 2009, 09:38:46 AM

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

pensrock · February 14, 2009, 09:52:02 AM

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.

FLBentRider · February 14, 2009, 10:35:02 AM

I had to buy it online. I used alliedkenco.com

csakis · February 14, 2009, 09:35:04 PM

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.

HCT · February 15, 2009, 04:09:18 AM

Online is the only place I know of. Shipping is a killer though. ButcherPacker is another place that has them.

pensrock · February 15, 2009, 04:25:38 AM

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/

KyNola · 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

Mr Walleye · February 15, 2009, 10:08:21 AM

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

KyNola · February 15, 2009, 08:51:53 PM

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

lumpy · 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

nickld · February 16, 2009, 03:11:40 PM

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

Smokin Soon · February 16, 2009, 07:25:07 PM

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.

Habanero Smoker · February 17, 2009, 02:45:20 AM

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.

nickld · February 17, 2009, 04:04:18 PM

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

Mr Walleye · February 17, 2009, 05:56:33 PM

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