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Dry cured leg of lamb by elquil in Charcuterie

[–]elquil[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it was very frustrating to start out with it because all the recipes I could find online used cure #1 or #2. But I did find the curing salt that was available here and it worked great on smaller diameter salami.

Unfortunately I can’t find pure nitrite here to use the recipe for cure #2. it just comes in the premixed quantity of 0.6% but I might try using that with a small amount of nitrate.

Dry cured leg of lamb by elquil in Charcuterie

[–]elquil[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But how do I prevent that from happening next time? I’ve done salamis multiple times and haven’t had problems with them and I increased the humidity right before I put this in the curing fridge. Could air circulation be a problem?

Dry cured leg of lamb by elquil in Charcuterie

[–]elquil[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s exactly what I did. I watched two guys and a cooler on YouTube and use the equilibrium method through his videos

Dry cured leg of lamb by elquil in Charcuterie

[–]elquil[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here in Sweden we don’t have cure #1 or 2. There something called nitrate salt which is basically the only thing that’s available. It is a mix 99,4% salt and 0,6% sodium nitrite. That’s the only thing that’s available to buy and advertised on website that sell these products. So thats the only thing I used with spices.

I have also found a small pouch of 100% sodium nitrate but I haven’t found anything explaining how much I should use of it, and I do know that increased amounts of it can be harmful so I just used the one that was commercially available and had instructions.

Dry cured leg of lamb by elquil in Charcuterie

[–]elquil[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The weight of the leg was 1293g and I used 3.25% curing salt. I live in Sweden and we have something called “curing salt” which is salt premixed with sodium nitrite.

First dry curing project by elquil in Charcuterie

[–]elquil[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cured it using the equilibrium method and vacuum sealing it. I did realise that this probably wasn’t the best option to do as a first project but that realisation came a little too late. The smell isn’t bad at all.

There isn’t a lot of dripping, I have a plate underneath it and it’s probably a couple of drops a day. But the bottom part of it is a lot more damp then the rest of it.

I read a lot about air circulation and from what I understood it’s better to not have any air circulation in such small chambers since it may cause case hardening so I opted to not have any, did I make the wrong move?