Pink Salt/Sodium Nitrate in the Twin Cities

[anabug]

I've got five pounds of pork belly defrosting in the fridge (for bacon) and no pink salt to be found. I would like to begin curing it tomorrow, but I've been to every cooks' supply store and spice shop I can think of, plus grocery stores. Is there a place in the Twin Cities that sells pink salt? I would rather stay on the safe side for my first time making bacon, so I'd prefer to use pink salt.

Thanks a lot!

[sandylc]

Clancy's meat in LInden Hills.

[anabug]

Thanks, I'll check it out tomorrow.

[sandylc]

I don't know if they usually sell it, but they sold some to my son last summer.

[cookkevin]

Morton Tender Quick, all in one cure mix, very good stuff.

[anabug]

I tried them - they were fantastic, gave me a tablespoon of pink salt, and I picked up some beautiful brats for dinner!

[MplsM ary]

I've seen giant slabs and various containers of pink salt at Whole Foods..

[anabug]

Which Whole Foods? I couldn't find anything in St. Paul.

[MplsM ary]

Minneapolis - by the cheese counter. Byerly's (St Louis Park), too - also by the cheese counter.

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Byerly's
1601 County Road C W, Saint Paul, MN 55113

[anabug]

Thank you!

[bob s]

I'd double check on the pink salt that MplsM ary is talking about. If it's what I'm thinking of, it's a fancy type of colored salt that's colored pink, rather than the "traditional" pink salt that's a combination of salt and sodium nitrate.

But I could be wrong. I'm merely basing my comment on seeing slabs of pink salt with Whole Foods' other fancy salts and a similar display of pink salt at the Uptown Lunds.

[MplsM ary]

Yup - I was talking about the fancy stuff - not what the OP was looking for.

I KNEW I shouldn't have weighed in. What the heck would a lifelong vegetarian know about curing bacon.

Sincerest apologies.