Brine concentration
Cooking & baking
Brine concentration
Find the salt needed for your chosen brine strength
Example values are filled in. Replace them with your own.
Example calculation
Salt needed: 30.9278 g.
Salt needed
30.9278 g
The percentage uses the combined mass of water and salt.
See formula and assumptions
Salt = water × concentration / (100 − concentration). Not a food-preservation safety assessment.
- Water mass (g)
- Example: 1000. Enter the number only.
- Target concentration
- For 20%, enter 20 without the % sign.