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• How much salt goes into a single loaf of bread?
  Most lean bread doughs use 1.8-2.2% salt by flour weight, which works out to roughly 1 tablespoon (8 g) of table salt for a standard 500 g flour loaf. Sourdough bakers often weigh to the gram, but home recipes that call for '1 tbsp salt per loaf' are usually written for fine table salt. Substituting a tablespoon of Morton kosher gives you almost double the salinity.
• How salty should pasta water be by the tablespoon?
  The 'salty as the sea' rule lands around 1 tablespoon of table salt per quart of water, or 8 g per liter. That's about 0.8% salinity — less than actual seawater, but enough to season the pasta from the inside. For a 4-quart pot you're at ¼ cup. If you only have Morton kosher, drop to about 2 teaspoons per quart to match the same weight.
• Is a tablespoon of pickling salt different from table salt?
  Pickling salt is pure sodium chloride with no anti-caking agents or iodine, but the crystal size is similar to table salt — so 1 tablespoon still weighs about 8 g. The reason recipes specify pickling salt isn't the weight; it's that iodine and anti-caking agents in regular table salt can cloud brine or darken vegetables. For weight-based pickling, table salt and pickling salt are interchangeable gram-for-gram.

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