Baker’s Percentage Calculator

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Baker’s Percentage Calculator

Turn an entered dough schedule into percentages of total flour.

Starting values are editable examples. Use your own recipe, measuring utensils and ingredient quotes.

1 Flour basis
Other ingredients
Cooking & Baking

Baker's percentages put every ingredient against the flour basis, making different batch sizes easier to compare.

Include all flour in the basis, including preferment flour, and separate the other ingredients by mass. Check the total flour before interpreting any percentage.

01 / GET STARTED

How to use Baker’s Percentage Calculator

  1. Enter total flour and optional new flour basis.
  2. Add the entries in other ingredients as separate rows. Include ingredient and mass for each row.
  3. Select Calculate result. Read the returned values alongside the assumptions below before copying, exporting or acting on the result.
02 / A CLEARER WORKFLOW

Why choose this tool?

A consistent flour basis lets you compare formulas without confusing ingredient mass with a share of the entire dough.

Before you use the result

All flour, including flour in a preferment, belongs in the flour basis. Break preferments into flour and other ingredients before entering them.

03 / COMMON QUESTIONS

Questions about Baker’s Percentage Calculator

Should a preferment be entered as one ingredient?

Break it into flour and its other components first. Otherwise its flour can be missing from the basis.

What should I check before using Baker’s Percentage Calculator?

Check Total flour, Optional new flour basis, Ingredient and Mass. Use the exact units shown beside the controls and replace any example values with your own inputs.

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