Sourdough Calculator

This scales a sourdough bread recipe by baker's percentage and takes the levain out of the totals properly. Enter the number of loaves, the dough weight each, the hydration, the salt and the levain percentage with its own hydration, and it returns exactly what to weigh into the bowl, the levain build as seed plus flour plus water, and the true hydration of the finished dough. Two further actions scale a bulk and proof time you already trust to a colder or warmer dough, and work out the water temperature that lands the mix on a target dough temperature. The timing model is a rate of thumb anchored on your own numbers, not a schedule.

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Dough Weight In
Only the loaf weight below is read in this unit. Everything else on the form is a percentage of the flour weight, which is the same number either way. Every weight in the answer comes back in the unit you pick, and the three weigh-out lines carry the other one in brackets.
In the unit picked above. Dough weight, not baked weight. A loaf loses roughly a tenth of it in the oven. 900 g is 31.75 oz, and a 2 lb loaf is 32 oz.
100 for a liquid levain, 50 to 60 for a stiff one.
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Temperatures In
In the unit picked above. Leave it blank for 78 F, which is the usual reference.
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Temperatures In
Around 2 F for hand mixing, 10 to 25 F for a spiral mixer. In the unit picked above.
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