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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Enter values to see the result.
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.