[adam-f]

Is anyone else having cognitive dissonance with the % of ingredients in so-many-grams of water?

Does 1% baking soda and 0.5% salt in 2000 grams of water mean 20 grams of baking soda and 10 grams of salt?

[nkatsaros]

That's exactly what it means. It's called baker's percentage[1]. I find it useful for getting repeatable results when scaling a recipe.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_percentage

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

That's not what cognitive dissonance means.

[chrissyb]

0.5% salt by my calculation is still 2.6 teaspoons (10g) of salt - In 2L of water that does not seem insignificant. When written in terms of percentages it does.