LoafRiseLab publishes educational bread & sourdough tools with explanations of the arithmetic and its limits. This page describes drafting, references and corrections.
Methods and examples
Starter flour = starter mass ÷ (1 + starter hydration/100). Starter water = starter mass − starter flour. Dough hydration = total water ÷ total flour × 100. Scaling factor = desired total flour ÷ current total flour.
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Interpretation and corrections
This models flour, water and starter by mass. It does not calculate fermentation time, food safety, salt recommendations or flour absorption, and it does not treat other wet ingredients as pure water.
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