# Baker’s Percentage Calculator

Turn an entered dough schedule into percentages of total flour.

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Category: 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.

## Inputs and controls

* Total flour (g). Allowed range: 0.001 to 10000000
* Optional new flour basis (g). Allowed range: 0.001 to 10000000
* Ingredient
* Mass (g). Allowed range: 0 to 10000000

## How to use

* Enter total flour and optional new flour basis.

* Add the entries in other ingredients as separate rows. Include ingredient and mass for each row.

* Select Calculate result. Read the returned values alongside the assumptions below before copying, exporting or acting on the result.


## Why use this tool

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


## Before relying on the result

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


## Tool limitations

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

## Questions

### 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.

Source page last modified (UTC): 2026-10-01T16:12:30+00:00

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