Brine Salt

{
  "asOf": "2026-10-11T14:26:08.214Z",
  "degraded": false,
  "disclaimer": "Screening signal computed from the named public source. Not financial, legal or investment advice; provided as is. Verify at the source before acting.",
  "notChecked": [
    "food safety of curing: nitrite curing, botulism risk and safe times are not covered (use tested curing recipes)",
    "salt that sticks to or is absorbed by the food: the brine weakens as it brines",
    "…2 more"
  ],
  "percentOfSolution": 5,
  "percentOfWater": 5.2632,
  "reasons": [
    "Percent of solution = salt / (salt + water). Percent of water = salt / water. Recipes differ on which they mean, so check.",
    "Common ranges: pasta water 1 to 2%, vegetable and sauerkraut ferments 2 to 3%, wet poultry or pork brines 5 to 8%, seawater about 3.5%, dry brine 0.75 to 1.5% of the meat's weight."
  ],
  "saltG": 52.6316,
  "source": "computed locally",
  "spoonEquivalents": {
    "diamond crystal kosher": {
      "tablespoons": 6.27,
      "teaspoons": 18.8
    },
    "morton kosher": {
      "tablespoons": 3.65,
      "teaspoons": 11
    },
    "table salt": {
      "tablespoons": 2.92,
      "teaspoons": 8.77
    }
  },
  "spoonGramsPerTeaspoon": {
    "diamond crystal kosher": 2.8,
    "morton kosher": 4.8,
    "table salt": 6
  },
  "summary": "52.63 g salt in 1000 g water is a 5% solution (5.263% of the water's weight); total 1052.6 g. About 2.92 tbsp table salt, 3.65 tbsp Morton kosher or 6.27 tbsp Diamond Crystal.",
  "totalSolutionG": 1052.63,
  "verdict": "SALT_AMOUNT_COMPUTED",
  "waterG": 1000
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://cooking-calc.x402tookit.com/brine-salt?basis=solution&percent=5&waterG=1000'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://cooking-calc.x402tookit.com/brine-salt?basis=solution&percent=5&waterG=1000' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcooking-calc.x402tookit.com%2Fbrine-salt
const res = await pay("https://cooking-calc.x402tookit.com/brine-salt?basis=solution&percent=5&waterG=1000");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://cooking-calc.x402tookit.com/brine-salt?basis=solution&percent=5&waterG=1000")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)