Salt Peter

sorbus · Salt Peter

Does anyone know where you can buy salt peter for curing bacon?

wellys

You can buy it at:

http://www.sausagemaking.org/acatalog/Saltpetre__500_grammes.html

WellyS

Diana

Do you have to use Salt Petre or is there an alternative way of doing it?

Ina

I think the main object of using saltpeter is retaining the red colour of meat. Plus some preserving, I suppose; somebody I knew in Germany was making their sausages etc without it, and they looked a bit grey.

sorbus

Thanks Wellys have sent off an order, now to find scale accurate to 1 gram.

Ina

Sorbus, whereabouts are you? If you are near here, pop around with your saltpeter when you have it; we have very exact balances here.

Julie

Salter do a very neat slimline one which sits flat on the worktop.
I bought mine in Asda for 14.99 (but I think they've been reduced since).
I was looking for a cooking timer and scales with small increments for weighing out my acid dyes and this thing does both in pounds and grammes, plus it has a clock. You can put a container on them and zero the scales before you add your ingredients too, which is very useful.