What’s on the Brining poster
A 6-row table: Use · Salt % · Time.
Salt as a percentage of the water weight.
- Wet brine, poultry — 5–6% — 1 h per 500 g
- Wet brine, pork — 5% — 2–12 hours
- Dry brine (on meat) — 1–1.5% of meat — 12–48 h, uncovered
- Vegetable pickle — 3–5% — Days to weeks
- Sauerkraut — 2% of cabbage — 1–4 weeks
- Feta / cheese storage — 5–8% — Storage
Dry brining — salting and refrigerating uncovered — gives better skin than wet brining, and takes no container.
Questions about the Brining poster
- What’s on the Brining poster?
- A 6-row table: Use · Salt % · Time. Salt as a percentage of the water weight. Wet brine, poultry — 5–6% — 1 h per 500 g; Wet brine, pork — 5% — 2–12 hours; Dry brine (on meat) — 1–1.5% of meat — 12–48 h, uncovered; Vegetable pickle — 3–5% — Days to weeks; Sauerkraut — 2% of cabbage — 1–4 weeks; Feta / cheese storage — 5–8% — Storage. Dry brining — salting and refrigerating uncovered — gives better skin than wet brining, and takes no container.
- Who is the Brining poster for?
- Brining belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning measures can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Brining poster?
- Brine by percentage of water weight. Volume measurements of salt are unreliable. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Brining belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Brining?
- Baking at Altitude, Coffee Ratios and Baker's Percentages sit alongside Brining 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 at AltitudeCoffee RatiosBaker's Percentages
- Is the Brining poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Brining 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 Brining poster print at?
- Brining 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 Brining loses nothing.Printing guide
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