Home Canning API
Home-canning maths as an API, computed locally and deterministically — the altitude adjustments that keep a batch of preserves safe, the numbers a canner, homesteader or recipe app processes a jar by. Because water boils cooler the higher you are, every tested sea-level recipe has to run longer or hotter, and this API does that arithmetic. The waterbath endpoint applies the USDA boiling-water-bath and steam-canner rule: for a base process of 20 minutes or less add 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes by altitude band, and for more than 20 minutes add 10, 20, 30 or 40 — so a 15-minute pickle recipe at 4,000 feet processes 25 minutes, and a 30-minute one runs 50. The pressure endpoint adjusts the canner: a dial gauge gains 1 psi per 2,000 feet, turning an 11 psi recipe into 12, 13, 14 or 15, while a weighted gauge simply steps from 10 psi up to 1,000 feet to 15 above it, since it only has 5/10/15 settings. The boilingpoint endpoint gives the underlying reason — water boils about 1.84 °F lower per 1,000 feet, so 5,000 feet boils at 202.8 °F instead of 212. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for canning, food-preservation, homesteading, recipe and kitchen app developers, preserving-calculator and pantry tools, and cooking-class software. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. USDA tables — always follow a tested recipe. Live, nothing stored. 3 compute endpoints.
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