What is Baker's Percentage? | Baker's Math Explained

Watch this video to learn and understand the basics of baker’s percentages to easily scale up or down your recipes, add ingredients and better understand your baking with incredible accuracy. Use the baker’s percentages calculator in this guide as a tool to find your recipe formula and the dough’s final hydration.

Baker’s percentages or baker’s math (also sometimes called formula percentage) is a universal baker’s language mainly used to easily calculate, scale and adjust bread baking formulas. By understanding baker’s percentages, you will easily be able to make small changes that you can track to help you improve your baking. You can also use fundamental rules to help you diversify your baking and adapt your standard recipe.

⭐ Key Reasons for Using Baker’s Percentages:
▶Allows you to work with more precision
▶Simplifies scaling formulas up and down
▶Allows you to share a common baker’s language.
▶The ability to share a common language helps us communicate with other bakers easily and helps us quickly troubleshoot a formula by seeing the percentage breakdown.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:50 - What baker's percentage?
01:43 - Three key's of understanding baker's percentages
02:30 - Baker's percentage dough calculator
2:45 - Baker's percentage explained
03:56 - Calculate baker's percentage quickly
05:15 - Potato and rosemary sourdough example
07:45 - Recap
07:50 - Outro
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