Discover the art of curing meat at home with this step-by-step beginner's guide. Learn the essentials of dry and wet curing methods, and embark on your meat-curing journey today.

Pink salt is also known as Prague powder, Insta Cure #1, or pink curing salt #1, and it is commonly used to cure meats, like corned beef. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Cured meat products made without the addition of sodium nitrite are pictured at a lab of Wes Osburn, Ph.D., Texas A&M University meat scientist. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Michael Miller) ...