What’s on the Seasoning by Weight poster
A 7-row table: Food · Salt % · Note.
Salt as a percentage of total weight.
- Meat, dry brine — 1–1.5% — Ahead of time
- Soups and stews — 0.8–1% — Of total weight
- Bread dough — 1.8–2% — Of flour weight
- Sausages — 1.5–2% — Of meat
- Pasta water — 1% — Of water
- Vegetables, roasting — 1% —
- Sauerkraut — 2% — Of cabbage
1% is a good default for almost anything savoury. Weigh the food, take 1%, and adjust from a known baseline.
Questions about the Seasoning by Weight poster
- What’s on the Seasoning by Weight poster?
- A 7-row table: Food · Salt % · Note. Salt as a percentage of total weight. Meat, dry brine — 1–1.5% — Ahead of time; Soups and stews — 0.8–1% — Of total weight; Bread dough — 1.8–2% — Of flour weight; Sausages — 1.5–2% — Of meat; Pasta water — 1% — Of water; Vegetables, roasting — 1% —; Sauerkraut — 2% — Of cabbage. 1% is a good default for almost anything savoury. Weigh the food, take 1%, and adjust from a known baseline.
- Who is the Seasoning by Weight poster for?
- Seasoning by Weight belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ratios can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Seasoning by Weight poster?
- Season by percentage of the food's weight. It is far more reliable than tasting alone. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Seasoning by Weight belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Seasoning by Weight?
- Baking Ratios, Cake Ratios and Cocktail Ratios sit alongside Seasoning by Weight in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Baking RatiosCake RatiosCocktail Ratios
- Is the Seasoning by Weight poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Seasoning by Weight downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Seasoning by Weight poster print at?
- Seasoning by Weight is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Seasoning by Weight loses nothing.Printing guide
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