Baker’s percentage calculator

In baker’s percentages, flour is always 100% and every other ingredient is a percentage of the flour weight.

Your answer

Flour1,043.5 g
Water730.4 g
Salt20.9 g
Yeast5.2 g
Other0 g
Total dough1,800 g

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How we worked it out

Updated as you change the numbers.

  1. Flour = total dough ÷ (sum of all percentages ÷ 100).
  2. Each ingredient = flour × its percentage.

Method and assumptions

Baker’s percentages make formulas easy to scale and compare: a 70% hydration dough has 70 g of water for every 100 g of flour, whatever the batch size.

Questions

How much flour for 1,800 g of 70% hydration dough with 2% salt and 0.5% yeast?

1,043 g of flour and 730 g of water (the percentages add up to 172.5%, and 1,800 ÷ 1.725 = 1,043).

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