This form can be used to :
  • calculate the final hydration of a dough including starter
  • Scale a formula by a percentage
  • Scale a formula to give a final dough weight
  • Convert a formula between different units
  • Create a formula from flour / starter percentages
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Enter Desired Dough Weight, flours,
hydration and starter percentage
Final Dough
WW Flour%
Rye Flour%
Starter%
Starter Hydration%
Hydration%

1 cup =
136 g flour
4.8 oz flour
0.3 lb flour
236 g water
8.32 oz water
0.52 lb water
227 g butter
128 g sugar
40 tsp
13.3 tbsp

1 lb =
454 g
16 oz
1.92307692 cups water

1 oz =
28.3495 g
0.0625 lb
0.20833 cups flour
0.1201923 cups water

1 g =
0.035274 oz
0.00220462 lb
0.00735294 cup flour
0.00423728 cup water

Weight Conversion figures from
Google and allrecipes

Useful You Tube videos
  • Batard Shaping - Josey Baker's
  • Chad Robertson Masterclass
  • High Hydration dough Shaping - San Francisco
  • How to Shape Bread Dough - Batards
  • Pizza Dough Shaping
  • Roll Shaping - Panadería
  • Shaping - Chad Robertson masterclass
  • Shaping - Tartine Country Loaf
  • Help Text
    Enter the weight of the flour (and any other dry ingredients), water (and any other wet ingredients) and starter in the same unit, as they are all the same this calculator will work.

    There are example usage to show you how to use the form on the menu on the left.

    There are lots of sample recipes from various sources which I have either develpoed or are from the internet and there is a link back to the,

    Entering data in the fields will update the Totals as you go

    The calculator will work with any hydration starter

    Changing the unit will convert the formula according to the Conversion Numbers Here

    You can bookmark the URL to this page with the formula in so you can save multiple formulas without the need to retype the information

    You can change the titles of the Flour / Water by clicking them, this will also be saved with the bookmark

    The Yeasted to Sourdough conversion is an approximation, obviously the rising time will be much longer. You may need to adjust to add more or less starter. Also the flavour will change so if the bread does not taste how you want it to then I would suggest either baking it with yeast or 12-24 hours before you want to bake take 25g of your active starter and add equal amounts of flour and water to bring up to the amount of starter you need. This should reduce the "sour" taste

    Extra ingredients can be added that do not affect the hydration

    Cups .... they hydration % just doesn't work out! The figures I have for converting can't quite be right but searching the interweb they seem to be accurate?!?


    Different flours can absorb different amounts of water, I created a survey to try and log what hydration different brands of flour can be used at, you can see the results here. You can also complete the survey here if you would like to add flours, it is an open survey.