Anyone make dried sausage with sea salt?

[JohnDS]

Ok so I know people usually use special curing salt nowadays to make dried sausage, but somehow people survived for years by doing it with regular salt and I doubt they had a slough of curing salt options to choose from back when. But I do want to make sure I can in fact use sea salt to do so safely. I used 30g of sea salt for about 2Lbs of sausage. This is the first time I'm doing it, so instead of grinding my own meat, I used ground sausage from the store, salted it, and threw in some spices.

I hope someone with experience can give some feedback. I have them hanging in the basement for the next 3 weeks. Thanks you.

 

[SmokeOCD]

Do you know the humidity level in your basement? Watch for case hardening, that’s where the outside dries and prevents the middle from drying. Also weight, you are looking to lose about 1/3 of your weight in the process.
If you’re going full old school, just touch and feel - I got nothing.
Good luck!