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Salt

Many poetic things could be said about salt, like Mr. Gandhi's walk, or the bitter rivals in Japan who gifted salt when one was in need, because who can live without salt? This page, however, is more prosaic than that.

Kraut Calculations

You may want a utility that given a list of weights (presumably of cabbage) will return the amount of salt to use (2% by default) possibly removing some value (the weight of the container) from each given value, and checked that you haven't made any errors in the adhoc code you were writing on the command line to do this prior.

    $ mathu kraut -p 1 -t 10 60 60
    100.0

You probably do not want 100% salt; the above is just to confirm that the -t tare value of 10 is being subtracted from each weigh (60) prior to summing things up. 0.02 would be a more typical value for a kraut salt percent, by weight of cabbage, or maybe a higher value for a summertime ferment if you haven't got cooling.

https://thrig.me/src/scripts.git

Salt Replacement Ratio

Amounts of salt in various foodstuffs found in the kitchen. And some math so I do not need to work it out from scratch, again.

        amount   salt
    1/4t  1.4g  550mg  sea salt
      1T  18g   820mg  white miso
      1T  15g  1000mg  soy sauce
      1T  15g  1160mg  dark soy sauce
      1T  14g    90mg  salted sweet cream butter

How much to substitute depends on how strongly flavored the replacement salt is, and how that flavor mixes with the dish in question. It may be necessary to only substitute, say, half of the sea salt with some other salt product, or for more complexity replace the sea salt with both soy sauce and miso in appropriate amounts.

almonds.gmi

The conversion is a ratio, n is to m as p is to q. To replace 1/2t (1100g) of sea salt in "almond sugar bread" with white miso one would want to know how much 1100mg of salt is in white misos, which isn't a real unit but is less bland than grams.

    n/m = p/q
    18/820 = x/1100
    1100*18/820 = x

    SBCL> (/ (* 1100 18) 820)

    990/41
    SBCL> (format nil "~,1f" (/ (* 1100 18) 820))

    "24.1"

So that's 24.1g of white miso to replace the sea salt. This does not appear to be wrong; 24 is a bit larger than 18 as 1100 is a bit larger than 820. I'm terrible at math and usually remain suspicious that I've made some error. And adding too much salt could be a disaster.

Someone had complained that miso was "too salty" for them, but did not complain when I replaced the sea salt with miso without telling them. The miso gave the sugar bread a nice bit of complexity. But it was still sugar bread with too much sugar.