Bakers Percentage Calculator
Scale any bread or pizza recipe with total confidence: enter your target dough weight and hydration, and this calculator works out the exact flour, water, salt and yeast in grams — flour always at 100 percent, everything else a percentage of it.
| Ingredient | Grams | Percent of flour |
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How to use
- Enter the total dough weight you want in grams.
- Set hydration, salt, yeast and any other ingredient percentages.
- Read the flour, water, salt and yeast amounts in grams from the table.
Tips
- Most sandwich breads use 60–65% hydration; start there if your recipe does not say.
- Salt usually stays at 1.8–2.2% of flour weight — too little and the loaf tastes flat.
- Write down the percentages that work for you, and every future batch becomes repeatable.
- Weigh ingredients in grams for accuracy; cup measurements vary too much for bread.
Bakers percentage expresses every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight, so flour is always 100 percent. The flour weight is found by dividing the total dough weight by 1 plus the sum of all other percentages.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What does the bakers percentage calculator do?
It works out every ingredient in grams from your total dough weight and hydration, with flour always at 100 percent.
What is bakers percentage?
A method where flour is always 100 percent and every other ingredient is a percentage of the flour weight, which makes recipes easy to scale.
What do I need to enter?
Your total dough weight in grams, plus the hydration, salt, yeast and other-ingredients percentages.
What results does it give me?
The exact amount of flour, water, salt and yeast in grams for your recipe.
How is the flour weight found?
The tool divides the total dough weight by 1 plus the sum of all other percentages.