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Curing Salt #1 Calculator

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By Dylan Clay
February 12, 2025
Cure #1 Grams 

The Curing salt I use is: Anthony’s Pink Curing Salt #1

Anthony’s Pink Curing Salt #1 Notes: 1 oz of Cure #1 per 25 lbs of meat.

The scale I use is: Etekcity 0.1g Scale

How This Calculator Works

Most people are curing 1-5 lbs of meat, not 25 lbs.

Rather, we know that 1 oz is 28.35 grams.

  • Where X is the weight of the beef in lbs.
  • Y is the cure output in grams.

If we had 3 lbs of beef, the equation would look like this:

Cure #1 Will Also Go By Names Like

  • InstaCure #1
  • Pink Curing Salt #1 (not to be confused with pink Himalayan sea salt)
  • Prague Powder #1

#1 consists of 6.25% sodium nitrite and 93.75% sodium chloride; This version requires cooking – hence why it’s used for jerky, snack sticks, bacon, ham, sausage, pastrami, and other smoked meats.

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