Why are you using Tender Quick instead of Prague Powder? Not second guessing or anything. I just am interested in the consideration for why you pick one over the other in recipes?
I am one of the first to advocate using cure #1 and properly weighing the cure #1, salt, and sugar.
But the answer to your question is is two-fold;
1) This is a tutorial for high school culinary arts students where I am giving them their first lesson on curing meat. You have to be able to swim in the shallow end of the pool before you get to go into the deep end. I use the same philosophy with teaching curing meat when invited as a guest teacher.
2) Simplicity of use; with just a small single piece of meat, sometimes it is just much simpler to make a brine using Morton Tender Quick for a single 5 pound piece of meat, than to get out the scale and weigh the cure, weigh the salt, and weigh the sugar.
The other side of the coin is that many in this forum have never cured meat before; so Morton Tender Quick is readily available at a lot of grocery stores. This makes it easy for a first time Brethren to only spend a couple dollars on Tender Quick to try curing meat, rather than having to purchase a scale and a pound of Prague Powder #1 that they might never use again.
Any charcuterie craftsman can easily forgo the Morton Tender Quick and use Prague Powder instead. Simply calculating 5 pounds of meat and two pounds of water at 3175 grams and can make make your Prague Powder, Salt, and sugar calculations for the equilibrium cure.
Here in the US, we have many who will say that the product is outdated or not as effective as using cure #1. But I beg to differ..... In Europe they have been curing for almost a millennium. Yet they prefer the simplicity and accuracy of a bonded pre-mix (Colorozo Salt) as LordRiffenstein uses. Unfortunately our formulations of curing salts are not readily available to them, they have to order these items from the UK or from the US.
Lastly I don't advocate using one over the other, but each has product their own unique use in some applications.
While I mostly use Cure number #1, it is not a matter of which one I use, but rather it is one's ability to properly calculate and use either cure in a proper and safe manner.
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