I send most of my tanning out but I am doing my own yote shoulder mount w/cream tan. I have my old formic acid recipe. Here's my question: How much salt is in a pound as a general rule. I dont have a scale handy. My directions call for 1 pound salt to 1 gal water. Anyone got a good equivalent? My salinometer is broken and I wont be getting a new one for this project.
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Yuk, yuk....
Seriously though, that would take about 30 seconds to roughly figure out. Isn't a stick of butter about 1/4 lb? 4 sticks of butter on a crude balance and add salt to the other side until it balances....
add the salt to the pickle not the butter...
Go to the grocery store and purchase a known weight of salt 1 pound, 5 pounds, ect. Then simply take a measuring cup to find the amount of dry volume in ounces for the amount of salt you purchased. If necessary simply compute to find how many ounces a 1 lb. unit of dry measure of salt would be.
1.5 cups of salt is a pound
Also thank you to the comedians and scientists.I know its a dumb question but I had to get my salted hide out of the shop and in a vat fast. My house is for sale and hides laying around the shop just isnt appealing to future buyers. I have a showing tomorrow so now I can pickle away.
you could have done it with a homemade balance and any item that you know for sure is 1 lb....
JJ, for a straight answer I assume you were wanting to know the volume of salt. Hope I was of some help.
The right answer is 1 Lb. is equal to 1 1/2 level cupfuls (or 12 fl. ozs.) if you use a Bakers measuring cup like the kind your girlfriend or wife would use to make a cake!