Cooking Tools
Pasta Water Salt Ratio Calculator
Enter your pasta pot's water volume and a target salinity to calculate how much salt to add.
40 g salt
≈ 2.2 tablespoons (table salt)
A common guideline is around 1% salinity ("as salty as the sea" recipes often mean closer to 3%, but 1% is a widely used starting point for pasta water) — adjust to taste. Tablespoon conversion assumes ~18g per tablespoon of table salt.
How to use this tool
- 1Enter your water volume in liters.
- 2Enter a target salinity percentage.
- 3See the salt amount in grams and tablespoons.
Frequently asked questions
Why salt the pasta water at all?+
Salting the water seasons the pasta itself from the inside as it cooks, which plain salting after cooking can't replicate.