Cure for summer sausage not involving nitrite

[dawg]

Lamper
Just curious? Your homemade summer sausage didn’t accidentally get too much nitrates in it. How big of batches and how much cure?

[Deepwoodsbutcher]

Dave in AZ great information. Thanks

[Jonathon]

Lamper It sounds like you might have used something with MSG in it? MSG or Mono-Sodium Glutamate is an additive that gets somewhat unfairly lambasted as it is a small percentage of the population that experiences a negative effect from eating it. However, that negative effect is often a migraine-like headache. Check the seasonings ingredients for that, MSG must be listed in ingredients, it cannot be a hidden ingredient.

[Lamper]

Jonathon Thanks…I’ll check the label to see if MSG was part of the ingredients.

[Lamper]

Dave in AZ Great advice…thanks! I’ll try it.

[Ridley Acres]

Lamper said in Cure for summer sausage not involving nitrite:

Jonathon Thanks…I’ll check the label to see if MSG was part of the ingredients.

MSG is a trigger for my wife. Depending on the load of other foods she has eaten, cured meats will do it too. One thing that has helped when eating out or away from home is drink copious amounts of water to help flush it through.

I have used the small packet of celery juice powder that Walton’s sells with bacon and ham, with great success. Although I didn’t use the whole packet and the next time I went to use it, the contents was far too clumpy. So I would suggest use quickly once opened .

[gus4416]

Lamper I used to get migraines a lot but when I put a stop to all msg I haven’t had one in years Chinese restaurant used it a lot and traveling I ate a lot of it now I ask if it is in there and no problems

[Kaleb Trojacek]

I’ve used Eco Cure from the Sausage maker to make smoked sausages before and it turned out great. I’m planning on making summer sausage with it soon. It does not have any nitrites in it.

[Lamper]

Kaleb Trojacek Thanks…I’ll check it out.

[mdseaside]

Maybe this will help. Sometimes I use my smoker as an oven to cook my summer sausage with no smoke. So if I am cooking in a High oxygen atmosphere do I need nitrite in my mix?
Maybe someone can help answer this question.

[processhead]

mdseaside said in Cure for summer sausage not involving nitrite:

Maybe this will help. Sometimes I use my smoker as an oven to cook my summer sausage with no smoke. So if I am cooking in a High oxygen atmosphere do I need nitrite in my mix?
Maybe someone can help answer this question.

I don’t think the issue is whether you smoke or don’t smoke.
The issue is the relatively low temperatures over a long period of time during typical thermal processing of sausage.
Also consider that regardless of how much oxygen is around the outside of a sausage, the meat inside is sealed in a relatively oxygen free environment where anaerobic spores could grow under the right temperature conditions.
It is this period of time in the danger zone that that calls for the use of cure #1.