How to know how salty is my soup without tasting?
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I need a method or a trick to measure (or guess) how saline is my food using normal tools or substances available on the super-market
Any help?
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Here's something useful to know. A good typical salt level for most savory foods is in the neighborhood of 1% by weight. So if you know how much your dish weighs in grams, then add 1% of that in salt and you should be very close to a good result. Adjust down if you are using any ingredients that are already salty, like capers. Adjust up if after the first few times you try this, it is a little light for you. You will also learn how much your salt weighs by volume so soon you can just use a measuring spoon or a pinch instead of weighing the salt.
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How do you test salt without tasting it?
Smell, Alkalinity Test, pH test in general will give you a good idea, measuring how much salt you can dissolve into a specific amount of it, take some of it and boil off the water to see if salt remains, \u2026 I'm sure there's a few more but those are the ones that came to mind. In general, I'd just smell it.How do you get the salty taste out of soup?
Add acid. It may seem counterintuitive, but adding a small amount of acid to the soup can cancel out some of the salty taste by distracting your taste buds. Try a squeeze of lemon juice or apple cider vinegar. And if you're cooking a dish that features crushed tomatoes, throw in some more\u2014tomatoes are very acidic.How can you test for salt in food?
The most common measurement methods for determining sodium salt content include:How can I make my soup taste salty without salt?
Your taste buds will change when you cook without salt. Use fresh lemons, limes, or most any citrus fruit. This is one of the best flavor tips for getting a salty flavor without using salt. Fresh lemon is one of the closest natural flavors to salt.More answers regarding how to know how salty is my soup without tasting?
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The normal test for salinity (using a hydrometer, which you're not going to find in a supermarket) won't work, because you have a mixture that's more than just water and salt -- soup will have lots of other things in the water (sugars, gelatin) so you can't take a single measurement and determine salinity from it. You can get one from a pet store -- they're used for maintaining salt water fish tanks.
The other common test is to measure how well the sample conducts electricity ... I don't think this test would be affected by other compounds, but it's going to measure total salts, not necessarily the sodium level.
If you want just the sodium level, you're going to have to stick with chromography, which ... you're not going to find in a super market, and likely much more expensive than what you're looking for. (and as they use salt slides, I don't know know that might affect the tests)
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