Baker's Percentage Calculator
Every recipe on this site uses baker's percentage — this calculator shows exactly what you weigh into the bowl. Switch between grams and percentages depending on how you think about a recipe. Baker's math sounds fancy but it's simple: flour is always 100%, and everything else is measured as a percentage of the flour.
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Enter amounts as
Recipe totals
| Ingredient | Grams | % |
|---|---|---|
| Flour (total) | 100 | |
| Water (total) | ||
| Starter | ||
| Salt | ||
| Total dough | — |
Sanity check
What to weigh
Your starter's flour and water are subtracted from the totals above.
| Ingredient | Grams |
|---|---|
| Flour | |
| Water | |
| Active starter | |
| Salt |
This gives you the flour / water / starter / salt spine of a loaf. Add-ins, enrichments, and flour blends live in each recipe — use the recipe page for those.