Vinegar Concentration Calculator

What is in the recipe:

What is a Vinegar Concentration Calculator?

This online calculator allows you to calculate the amount of vinegar if the recipe calls for one concentration ("strength") of vinegar, but the store (or at home) has a different strength of vinegar. Or if you want to replace the vinegar essence indicated in the recipe with environmentally friendly and healthy natural vinegar.

Suppose the recipe says to use 15 ml of 70% vinegar essence and 2 liters of water, and you want to use the 5% apple cider vinegar you have. Intuitively, since the concentration of apple cider vinegar is 14 times less than in the essence (because 70=5x14), then you need to take about 14 times more (15x14=210 ml, i.e. a little more than a glass) , while reducing the amount of water intended to dilute the essence by about a glass (because along with vinegar you add an additional glass of water to the marinade). But this is only an approximate estimate, and for an accurate calculation it is necessary to take into account the difference in the density of vinegar solutions from the density of water and the dependence of the density of solutions on concentration. You also need to accurately consider the amount of water present in the original solution (specified in the recipe) and in the replacement solution.

How to use the vinegar calculator

Entering calculated data and viewing results

For the calculation, you need to enter the following data:

  • concentration of the first solution(indicated in the recipe, you want to replace it with another solution), indicated as a percentage. The concentration should be more than 0% and not more than 100%.
  • amount of first solution(indicated in units - milliliters, grams, liters, kilograms, teaspoons, tablespoons, glasses, indicated in the list on the right). A teaspoon is considered equal to 5 milliliters, a tablespoon - 15 milliliters, a glass - 200 milliliters. Please note that in Australian cooking recipes, a teaspoon is considered equal to 20 milliliters, not 15. Quantity must be a positive number.
  • concentration of the second solution(replacing the first solution, indicated as a percentage, must be more than 0% and not more than 100%

If incorrect data is entered, the fields are colored red and a corresponding message is displayed. To separate the integer and fractional part, it is preferable to use the symbol "." (period), but you can also use a comma (symbol ","). Re-entering the decimal separator or entering any non-numeric character (letter, space) stops number entry (previously entered digits will be taken into account). For example, the calculator will understand the entered data "5.5abc" as the number "five and a half". If the entered data cannot be recognized as a number at all, the calculator will ask you to enter the correct data.

The calculation will be done in about one second and the results will be displayed in units that you can select from the lists to the right of the results. If the concentration of the first and second solutions is different, then you will need to change the amount of water compared to that indicated in the recipe. So, in 100 gr. 70% of the essence contains 70 gr. pure acetic acid (CH3COOH) and 30 gr. water (H2O), and in 100 gr. 5% vinegar - 5 gr. acetic acid and 95 gr. water. Therefore, when you replace the essence with vinegar, you need to reduce the amount of water indicated in the recipe. Conversely, if you replace vinegar with essence, you must add water in such a way that the content of acetic acid and water does not change. Read more about the calculation method here.

If you specify the same concentration of vinegar indicated in the recipe and used as a substitute, our calculator can be used to convert the amount of vinegar indicated in different units (taking into account the densities of aqueous solutions of acetic acid). Yes, 100g. 80% vinegar essence will be about 93 ml (because its density is 1070 g / l), and ten tablespoons of 6% vinegar weigh 151 grams. When replacing concentrated vinegar (essence) with a diluted one, the calculator will indicate the need to reduce water, while in the original recipe, the presence of water may not be provided at all, or provided in an amount less than displayed in the calculator's response. In such situations, one must either reduce the amount of moisture given, for example, by vegetable juice, or, not being able to reduce the amount of water, simply agree that the marinade obtained by such a replacement will contain more liquid than was provided by the original recipe.

Illustration: How to change the unit of measurement

When using the calculator, you may notice that sometimes the sum of the volumes of vinegar and water from the recipe is somewhat different from the sum of the volumes of the replacement vinegar and water. There is no mistake in this, because when two liquids are mixed, their total volume may change due to the fact that the density of the solution depends on the concentration. The densities of the solutions also slightly depend on temperature, our calculator calculates assuming that the temperature of the solutions is 20 degrees Celsius. This dependence of the density of solutions on temperature has almost no effect on the accuracy of calculations for the needs of home canning.

Acetic essence is a solution consisting of 20% water and 80% concentrated acetic acid. According to organoleptic characteristics, it is a colorless liquid with a sharp specific odor and a sour taste.

Food vinegar essence is obtained not by combining acid with water, but by distillation of 5% vinegar, which is naturally formed during the souring of wine. Pure acid can only be removed chemically by treating acetates with sulfuric acid.

Curious! 100% acetic acid is called glacial, because when cooled to 17 ° C, it turns into ice-like crystals.

In home cooking, we often come across not the essence itself, but its aqueous solution from 3 to 13%, known as table vinegar. However, for the preparation of some marinades and canned products, a 70% acid solution is required. What to do if it was not at hand? Is it possible and if so, how to replace vinegar essence with 9% vinegar?

Interchangeability of essence and vinegar

In fact, these 2 liquids are completely interchangeable, since they are made from the same raw material and differ only in concentration.

For example, 9% vinegar consists of 1 part essence and 7 parts water. Those. 8 spoons of 9% vinegar contains 1 spoon of essence and 7 water. Their ratio is 1 to 7.

Knowing the correct ratio of essence and water in table vinegar of a certain concentration, you can easily calculate the required amount of components mixed to obtain it:

  • 3% - 1 ml of essence and 20 ml of liquid (1:20);
  • 4% - 1 ml of acid and 17 ml of water (1:17);
  • 5% - 1 ml of vinegar essence and 13 ml of liquid (1:13);
  • 6% - 1 ml of food acid and 11 ml of water (1:11);
  • 9% - 1 ml of essence and 7 ml of liquid (1:7).


Important! Vinegar essence can be dangerous in its pure form. Only 20 ml of the product is a lethal dose for humans, therefore, when manipulating it, strictly observe the proportions and caution.

How to replace the essence with ordinary vinegar

You can also make calculations in the opposite direction to find out how much vinegar you need to take instead of 70% food essence. But since there is more water in a dilute solution than in a concentrated one, less liquid will have to be added to the brine.

Consider the example of 9% vinegar. It consists of 8 parts, 1 of which is an acid, and the rest 7 are water. Therefore, to replace 1 tsp. essences take 8 tsp. vinegar and subtract 7 tsp from the liquid indicated in the recipe.

Or like this: 100 ml of essence \u003d 800 mg of 9 vinegar, in which 100 mg is acid and 700 is water.

With the help of such simple mathematical calculations, it is possible to draw up a pattern according to which 1 tsp essences are:

  • 21 tsp vinegar 3%, minus 20 tsp. marinade water;
  • 18 tsp 4% solution and subtract 17 tsp. liquids;
  • 14 tsp vinegar 5%, minus 13 tsp. water;
  • 12 tsp 6% solution, subtract 11 tsp. liquids;
  • 8 tsp vinegar 9% and minus 7 tsp. water.

On a note! One tablespoon contains 15 ml of vinegar. In tea - 5 ml.

Calculation example:

Suppose, according to the recipe, you need to pour 20 g of vinegar essence into the brine. How much 9% vinegar will be needed?


People have been using vinegar for a long time, using it, in the vast majority, in cooking. This spice is colorless, but, in some cases, it is slightly colored. The recipes of the cuisine of different countries are quite peculiar, but not a single cook, not a single housewife can do without vinegar. The food industry produces vinegar of various concentrations, but if one dish requires a concentrated 70%, then for others only 9%, or even a lower concentration. Vinegar is produced from ethyl alcohol, and not a single preservation, not a single marinade can do without it.

How to dilute vinegar 70% to 9%

Since 70% vinegar, or rather the essence, and this is the most convenient form of its release and home storage, consists of acetic acid and water, then you need to bring the solution to 9% with ordinary boiled water. Since the essence is produced in a glass container, it must also be diluted in a glass container, since a strong essence can corrode plastic. First, water is poured into the container, and then essence is added. In order for such an operation to take as little time as possible, in order to dilute 70% vinegar to 9%, it is necessary to dissolve one tablespoon of vinegar in 7 parts of water.

How to dilute 70% vinegar to the required concentration

There are verified proportions in order to get vinegar of the required concentration from the essence, because it is used not only in food, but for many other purposes. There is a table in which the proportions are tied to the capacity of an ordinary tablespoon. So, to obtain the desired concentration, it is necessary to add to one tablespoon of 70% vinegar:

  • 22.5 Art. spoons - you get 3% vinegar;
  • 17 art. spoons - 4% vinegar;
  • 13 art. spoons - 5%;
  • 11 art. spoons - 6%;
  • 9 st. spoons - 7%;
  • 6 art. spoons - 8%;
  • 7 art. spoons - 9%;
  • 6 art. spoons - 10%;
  • 1.5 hundred. spoons - 30%.

There is another option, how to dilute 70% vinegar to 9%. It has been experimentally established that an ordinary faceted glass contains 17 tablespoons of water. Therefore, to obtain a 9% solution, you need to pour 2 tablespoons of 70% vinegar into one faceted glass.

How to dilute 9% vinegar to 6%

There are situations when there is 9% concentration of table vinegar in the house, and only 6% is required according to the recipe. Mathematical calculation formulas are not required here. You just need to add one part of water to two parts of 9% vinegar. The result is 6% vinegar.

The use of vinegar of different concentrations

Quite often, diluted vinegar is also used in home medicine. Compresses with vinegar bring down the temperature well. To use this folk remedy, you need vinegar of 6% concentration.

Acetic essence is a solution of acetic acid with a concentration of 70 or 80%. It is produced industrially using a fermentation process from alcohol solutions. Widely used in industry and households. Housewives use the essence for canning, preparing marinades. However, such a concentrated solution of acetic acid is rarely used for cooking. Most often we are talking about table vinegar, which has a much lower concentration. How to make a 9% solution from 70% vinegar?

Acetic essence at 70% concentration can cause serious poisoning, even death, if a person accidentally or intentionally drinks it. If the essence gets on the mucous membrane of the eyes, on the skin, it will cause a very strong, painful burn.

Even the smallest concentration of acetic acid may well lead to injury. Therefore, you can not dilute the essence "by eye". You need to know the exact proportions. Use vinegar, even the lowest concentration, only for its intended purpose.

When working with vinegar essence, remove small children and pets from the kitchen. Free the table from foreign objects and containers, especially with food. Essence can accidentally get into food. Therefore, it is necessary to be careful and warn loved ones about this.

How dangerous is the situation? If a person swallows vinegar essence, he will receive an instant, very painful burn of the oral cavity, esophagus, stomach - the entire digestive tract. Pain is accompanied by swallowing, vomiting with blood may begin.

Vapors of acetic acid can burn the respiratory tract, there will be suffocation, blue skin, wheezing when breathing.

If a person swallowed more than 3 tablespoons of vinegar essence, then this is a severe poisoning that will cause death within a day.

Therefore, it is necessary to be extremely careful and attentive during the preparation of 9% vinegar from vinegar essence.

How to make 9 percent from 70 vinegar - a simple formula

On the labels of some bottles with 70% vinegar essence, manufacturers indicate that in order to obtain table vinegar, it is necessary to dilute the contents with water 1:20. That is, 20 parts of water and 1 part of essence. However, the result is a completely different concentration, which is needed. This is not 9% table vinegar at all, but a much less concentrated solution.

Therefore, you need to use a different recipe. The formula is as follows: you need to add 1 part of the essence to 7 parts of water. If you count a tablespoon as a unit of measurement, then you need 2 tablespoons of essence for 14 tablespoons of water.

Water should be clean, cool, boiled or filtered.

An elementary way with a faceted glass

The way to make 9 percent vinegar using a faceted glass was tested in practice by our grandmothers. Due to its long history, this method is almost flawless.

It is known that a faceted glass contains exactly 17 tablespoons of liquid, in our case - water. A bit of math, which we will not bore you with, and you can get the desired result very quickly. Pour 2 tablespoons of vinegar essence with a concentration of 70 percent into a faceted glass and top it up with water.

Table: How to make different percentage vinegar from vinegar essence

For different purposes in the household, vinegar of different concentrations is used, and not necessarily nine percent. However, in the store you can hardly find, for example, a solution of acetic acid in 4 or 10%. So let's learn how to cook it.

The unit of measurement for obtaining a solution of acetic acid of the required concentration will be a tablespoon.

A table that will help you find out how many tablespoons of water you need to add to one tablespoon of vinegar essence to get the appropriate concentration:

№ Solution concentration, %Number of tablespoons of water
1 3 22,5
2 4 17
3 5 13
4 6 11
5 7 9
6 8 8
7 9 7
8 10 6
9 30 1,5

Secrets and tricks for housewives

There are many problems that you can get rid of cheaply and easily with table vinegar:

  • Oily surfaces. No need to buy expensive oven cleaners. It is enough to slightly moisten the walls and the door from the inside with table vinegar, leave for a while, and then clean. So you can clean any surfaces where there are oil stains.
  • Dirty parquet. It is easy and stress-free to put it in order. Pour 4 cups of vinegar (half a cup per liter) into an 8-liter bucket of water. Rinse the floor well - it will be perfectly cleaned of dirt and begin to shine. However, if the parquet is protected with wax, it is better not to use this method.
  • Flowers in a vase. You can extend their life cycle with vinegar. Add 2 tbsp per liter of water. spoons. A beautiful bouquet will delight you for more than one day.
  • Unpleasant odors. You can easily get rid of them by applying vinegar. It is necessary to leave a cup of vinegar in the room for several hours without covering it. In the future, so that the smell of vinegar disappears, open the windows.
  • Scale in a kettle or saucepan. Purchased products are not needed, which are practically unable to rid the kettle of multi-layer scale. It is enough to pour a full kettle of water, pour in a tablespoon of vinegar and boil. The kettle will be completely clean.
  • Dirty glass and windows. The best and cheapest glass cleaner is vinegar. Dilute some vinegar with water and wash the windows. And then wipe dry with paper or a cloth that does not leave marks on the glass.
  • Dirty metal surfaces. Take a couple of tablespoons of vinegar, drop two drops of vegetable oil into the solution and clean the metal surface of dirt. It can be cutlery, decor items, jewelry.
  • Microorganisms, mold. With such a difficult task, vinegar will also cope with success. Pour 100 grams of vinegar into a plastic jar with a spray bottle, treat surfaces where mold has been noticed. After some time, the procedure can be repeated. It is very useful in this way to protect toothbrushes from bacteria. Wet them with vinegar, rinse after a while. Vinegar will perfectly help neutralize old cutting boards, the surface of the kitchen countertop.
  • Domestic ants. Vinegar perfectly repels these insects. It is necessary to process traces and "ant tracks". Trust me, they won't like it at all.
  • Brass. To make items made of brass shine, wipe them with a cloth dipped in vinegar.
  • Dried paint. After the repair, good brushes remain, which would be nice to use again. It is very easy to remove dried paint from them - just pour vinegar on the brushes for half an hour.
  • Stains on clothes. It is necessary to moisten the stain with vinegar and wash the garment in the typewriter. It works especially well on sweat and deodorant stains.
  • Attached price tags. It's a shame when a new thing is almost ruined by the price tag, which is firmly glued to it in the store. Moisten a cloth or sponge with vinegar and gently apply to the glued paper for a while. Then it can be easily removed from the surface, and there will be no traces left.
  • Clogged pipes. An excellent and cheapest tool that works just as well as expensive ones. Pour baking soda into the drain hole in the sink, then pour vinegar into the drain. There will be a reaction, foam will appear. Everything here depends on the degree of clogging of the pipe. You can get by with a tablespoon of soda and a couple of tablespoons of vinegar. In especially difficult cases, you will need half a glass of soda and a whole glass of vinegar. Wait from 15 minutes to half an hour, rinse the hissing and bubbling mass in the pipe with hot water.

A bottle of vinegar is present in the kitchen of any housewife. But here's the problem: vinegar of different concentrations is used for different purposes. Which vinegar is better to buy and how to dilute the vinegar essence to the percentage you need, consider below.

What is vinegar essence

First, let's clarify what vinegar essence is. This is a 70% aqueous solution of acetic acid. This solution contains 7 parts of acid and 3 parts of water. Sometimes you can find 80% and 30% essence on sale. Accordingly, in the first, the ratio of acid and water will be 8:2, and in the second - 3:7. Such concentrated solutions are dangerous; when taken orally, they cause burns of the mucous membranes of the digestive tract. In industrial production, it is called the food additive E260, and housewives use it in the kitchen and for domestic purposes in the form of diluted table vinegar. Table vinegar is also sold in stores, its concentration ranges from 3% to 9%. In addition, on the shelves you can find vinegar obtained from natural raw materials: apple, wine, malt, balsamic, sherry and even coconut. Such a product is used for cooking culinary dishes.

And yet, for domestic needs, the essence is most in demand. After all, from one teaspoon you can cook a whole glass of table vinegar. Before we learn how to dilute vinegar essence 70%, let's dwell on the quality of the original product.

How to buy good quality vinegar

Quality essence is sold only in glass bottles. There should be three convex rings on the neck of the bottle - to warn visually impaired people that the product is dangerous for ingestion. Also on the bottle there are four horizontal stripes, between the lower two on the inner surface of the glass there is a stamp of the manufacturer. The label indicates the concentration of vinegar - 70%. When shaking, the contents foam up, then within two to three seconds it becomes the same. If the bottle is fake, the foam will last longer than ten seconds. Do not buy fakes, they are harmful to health and, at best, will spoil your cooked dishes and preservation.

Usually the label gives very brief instructions on how to dilute the vinegar essence. Manufacturers write that you need to dilute the original product with water one to twenty. To obtain a solution of different concentrations, the amount of initial ingredients will be different. You can use a mathematical formula.

Mathematical calculation

For those who are friends with mathematics, it is easiest to dilute the essence to the required concentration according to the formula:

  • The amount of essence needed to obtain table vinegar \u003d desired concentration of the solution * the volume of the finished solution we need / the concentration of the essence.

For example: how to dilute vinegar essence to get 200 ml of 9% table vinegar.

9% * 200 ml / 70% = 25.7 ml of essence, dilute with water to 200 ml.

In another option, you can go from the opposite.

  • Amount of water needed for dilution = amount of essence * concentration of essence / desired concentration of the solution.

For example: it is necessary to dilute 15 ml of 70% vinegar essence to 6% table vinegar.

This requires the following amount of water: 15 ml * 70% / 6% = 175 ml of water.

To measure the volume, you can use a measuring cup or focus on the following numbers:

1 teaspoon = 5 ml, 1 dessert spoon = 10 ml, 1 tablespoon = 15-20 ml (depending on its depth). Classic faceted glass: full = 250 ml, rim = 200 ml, vodka glass = 50 ml.

For those who are reluctant to mess with the calculations, we suggest using standard coefficients.

How to get nine percent vinegar

Table vinegar of this concentration is used for canning products. How to dilute vinegar essence to obtain a solution with a concentration of 9%? It is necessary to dilute the essence with 70% water in the ratio: 1 part concentrate and 7 parts water. That is, for 0.5 liters of water, you need to add 75 ml of essence (one and a half piles).

A solution of table vinegar is recommended to be used as a rubdown for diseases accompanied by an increase in body temperature. How to dilute vinegar essence at a temperature? One liter of water is poured into enameled dishes and 2 tbsp. l. 9% table or apple cider vinegar.

How to get six percent vinegar

Six percent table vinegar is added to meat marinades. How to dilute vinegar essence: 10.5 parts of water for 1 part of the concentrate. To obtain 0.5 liters of solution, take 45 ml of essence (three tablespoons).

How to get 3% vinegar

Table vinegar with a concentration of 3% is used to dress ready-made dishes: salads, dumplings, pickled mushrooms, onions, sauces, etc.

How to properly dilute vinegar essence and get a three percent solution: 22 parts of water are taken for one part of the essence. To prepare 0.5 liters of table vinegar, you need 20 ml of vinegar essence 70%.

Dilute the essence in a glass or enamel bowl. First, the right amount of clean drinking water is measured into it. The water must be cool. Then add the calculated amount of vinegar essence. Avoid contact with the concentrate on the skin and especially on the mucous membranes of the eyes and mouth. But if, nevertheless, such a nuisance occurs, rinse the place of contact under a stream of cool running water. Store vinegar essence in a dark place out of the reach of children. Remember - it's an acid and if mishandled it can be harmful to your health.