Brine! vs BreadIQ

Brine! - The Brining Calculator Finally an easy way to calculate your brining recipe. Do you brine your meat, poultry, fish and seafood? You should! Brining makes your meal juicier, tender and more flavourful! Brining will improve your perfect thanksgiving turkey just as easily as your BBQ meat. Are you unsure how exactly you should brine your produce? Or deterred by complicated percentages and procedures? Then you need this app! Recipes, background knowledge and calculators: "Brine!" includes everything you need to master your brining game! Equilibrium brining, wet gradient brining or dry brining, it's all in the app so that you can use your favourite technique. KEY FEATURES: • CUSTOM RECIPES for Fish fillet, shrimps, chicken, duck and turkey as well as pork and beef. Your favourite meat isn't listed? No worries: You can easily adapt an existing recipe! • CALCULATORS EVERYWHERE: Your thanksgiving turkey is heavier than in the recipe? Somebody invited the neighbours to your BBQ? When it comes to brining, these things make a huge difference! We include calculators everywhere so you don't have to worry about it. • YOU'RE THE EXPERT? Use the custom calculator to use your own preferred final salt concentrations in your food. • BACKGROUND KNOW-HOW: What brining process should I use for what meat? What final salt concentration? How much salt should I use, and should I add sugar or curing salt? These and more questions about processes and principles are answered and bring you up to speed quickly. • BRINING TECHNIQUES: Equilibrium brining, wet gradient bringing and dry brining are the three important techniques in brining. Which one is best? It depends! Because each process has ist own advantages, we let you decide. Switch between techniques easily! WHY BRINE BEFORE COOKING? When brining, salt (and sometimes sugar and curing salt) penetrates into the meat before cooking. This has multiple desired effects: • JUICIER PRODUCE: Brining before cooking makes meat, poultry, fish and seafood juicier. Even after cooking is finished, the brined food will retain more moisture. • FLAVOUR: The brining mixture slowly enters the produce through osmosis. During the cooking process, it becomes evenly distributed throughout the produce and enhances ist taste! • SURFACE TEXTURE: You're aiming for a beautifully brown and flavourful bark? Brining, especially dry brining, will help you! Through the high salt concentration, the outer protein layer partially brakes down, encouraging a quicker Maillard reaction. Wonderful flavours and a bite to match! All the brining knowledge you need - summarized in one compact app with custom calculators. DOWNLOAD "Brine!" NOW! App content in English only. We are always excited to hear from you! If you have any feedback, questions, or concerns, please contact us at app@tastelab.ch.

BreadIQ is the bread baking app built by a Certified Executive Chef and CIA ProChef II — professional-grade fermentation science, for home bakers. Tell BreadIQ what you want to make. It handles the rest. Select your bread type, loaf format, and flour, then hit calculate. BreadIQ's Predictive Fermentation Model™ formulates your recipe, calculates a precise proofing timeline, and shows you what the bread costs to make — before you measure a single gram of flour. No more guesswork. No more inconsistent results. No more recipes that weren't scaled for what you actually need. ACTIVE BAKE — GPS for your bake. Live timers and push notifications guide you from mixer to oven at every stage, so you don't have to watch the clock. PREDICTIVE FERMENTATION MODEL™ — Proofing timelines calculated from the real variables in your dough: flour, yeast percentage, hydration, ambient temperature, sweetener type, and pre-ferment. Choose biga, poolish, or cold ferment and BreadIQ times each stage precisely for your formula — professional technique, no manual math. Precise windows, not guesswork. CONTEXT-AWARE RECIPE SCALING — Three pizza balls, a dozen dinner rolls, six-inch loaves — BreadIQ scales ingredients, yeast, and fermentation timing to exactly what you need. HUMIDITY ADJUSTMENT — Input your kitchen's relative humidity and BreadIQ calibrates your formula and proof timeline to match. SPEEDRUN™ — Need bread fast? SpeedRun compresses the fermentation window using temperature and yeast rate — engineered urgency, not a shortcut. FULL FLOUR SUPPORT & AUTOLYSE — 8 flour types, from bread flour to ancient grains like spelt and einkorn, each dynamically adjusted for hydration and fermentation. BreadIQ automatically applies and adjusts autolyse where it helps, handling mixing and rest times so you don't have to think about it. LIVE PROBE TRACKING — Pair a Combustion Predictive Thermometer and BreadIQ tracks your dough's real temperature live — refining your proofing timeline as your bake actually progresses, then watching the oven for you and letting you know the moment your bread is done, so you don't have to. NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS — Estimated nutrition for every bake, calculated from USDA ingredient data. (Informational only, not lab verified.) RECIPE IMPORT — Any recipe — website, cookbook, handwritten card, or straight from your browser with Chrome extension support — becomes a precision BreadIQ formula. Photograph it, paste a URL, or type it in. BAKE QUEUE & SCHEDULE BAKE — Stage a bake for later, or tell BreadIQ when you want your bread ready. It calculates your start time and reminds you thirty minutes ahead. REAL-TIME COST INSIGHT — See an estimated cost for your bread the moment your recipe generates, based on referenced ingredient pricing. Premium users can enter exact ingredient costs for precise numbers. SAVE & EXPORT RECIPES — Every recipe saves to your library and exports to a professionally formatted file, ready to reference anywhere. BUILT BY A PROFESSIONAL. DESIGNED FOR EVERYONE. Developed by a Certified Executive Chef and CIA ProChef Level II with over 20 years in professional kitchens — two decades of knowledge, in a tool anyone can use. The subscription pays for itself. An 8" boule costs about $1.00 to make at home versus $6–10 at a bakery. Bake twice a week and the math takes care of itself. Download BreadIQ and make your best bread yet.