Help...Cure 1 or 2 For Cold-Smoked Kolbasz?

[SmokeLovin]

Hello,

I'll be making batch of Hungarian cold-smoked kolbasz sausages this weekend and I need some advice please on the type of curing salt I should use. The recipe I have is from someone who passed on a few years ago and it makes no reference to the type of salt I should use. The ratio in the recipe is 50g of curing salt per/100 Kg pork shoulder. The sausages will be heavily spiced with garlic and sweet Hungarian paprika, hung for a couple days in cold storage, then cold-smoked in my Bradley Original. The sausages will then be left to air-dry in cold storage. There's a dry-goods place near me that sells small bags of "sodium nitrate", which I think is the principle ingredient in Prague powder #2. Will this do? Or should I be looking for Prague powder #1? Any advice is much appreciated!!

[Smokin Soon]

From my understanding, that is a dry cured sausage and will require Prague #2 cure. Someone will be along to confirm this.

[NePaSmoKer]

Hello,

I'll be making batch of Hungarian cold-smoked kolbasz sausages this weekend and I need some advice please on the type of curing salt I should use. The recipe I have is from someone who passed on a few years ago and it makes no reference to the type of salt I should use. The ratio in the recipe is 50g of curing salt per/100 Kg pork shoulder. The sausages will be heavily spiced with garlic and sweet Hungarian paprika, hung for a couple days in cold storage, then cold-smoked in my Bradley Original. The sausages will then be left to air-dry in cold storage. There's a dry-goods place near me that sells small bags of "sodium nitrate", which I think is the principle ingredient in Prague powder #2. Will this do? Or should I be looking for Prague powder #1? Any advice is much appreciated!!

Yours sounds like a dry cured sausage you would use cure #2.

5 lbs use 1 teaspoon cure 2
10 lbs use 2 teaspoons cure 2
25 lbs use 5 teaspoons cure 2


Cure #1 is used for smoking where the temps are 140* and the same amounts above.

nepas

[SmokeLovin]

Hi Nepas and SmokinSoon - thanks very much for you're advice. I'll let you know how it all turns out!


SmokeLovin

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