About Crumb & Cure

Crumb & Cure is a set of free calculators for baking, brining and curing at home.

Why I built it

The calculators I found kept getting small things wrong. Hydration calculators ignored the flour and water inside the starter. Brine recipes mixed up two different meanings of "percent". Curing calculators gave grams of cure without showing how much nitrite that puts in the meat.

I wanted tools that get those details right and show their working.

How the numbers are checked

• All the maths lives in one small library, separate from the pages.
• Every formula is tested against worked examples before a calculator is published. A failing test stops the site from being built.
• Food-safety limits come from primary sources, such as the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service and the US Code of Federal Regulations. Each one is linked where it is used.

What it is not

The calculators do arithmetic. They do not replace a tested recipe, and for cured meat you should always follow one.