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New tool in “The Bread Baker’s Toolbox” ready to go

ArtisanGeek's picture
ArtisanGeek

New tool in “The Bread Baker’s Toolbox” ready to go

As promised, I have added another tool to my "Bread Baker's Toolbox" for anyone to use. I call this one "The Custom Batch Formula Tool". You use this one when you have a bread formula with the ingredient quantities already specified by weight and you want to create a custom batch size. The software does the math, calculating the Baker's Percentages and displaying the results for your custom batch in both grams and ounces (US). I chose these units because they are the most common used in bread formulas by the home baker. Some large batch formulas will use pound (lbs.) and fractions of pounds. This is simple enough to solve; If you want a custom batch for 5  pounds so you can have 5 one pound loaves, just multiply 5 x 16 to determine total ounces for your custom batch. Anyway, I've put this tool through the paces...its very fast and accurate. Sometimes the final dough weight will equal 699 ounces when you specified 700...this is because each ingredient is rounded to 1/100 of and ounce or 1/100 of a gram. (you don't want to work with numbers that look like this: 234.34453040304004). Give it a try and let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for improvements. Trust me, I can take the critical comments. As a software developer, I know that the product is never good enough for everybody and I can live with that....I just do my best:) Go to breadmagic.com and follow the link. You can now choose between the Volume Conversion Formula  Tool and this new Custom Batch Formula Tool.

Custom Batch Formula Tool

Comments

TeaIV's picture
TeaIV

very neat! thanks for that!

 

TeaIV

monzy's picture
monzy

Geek!! 

Nice going, keeping it simple yet effective. I look forward to testing it. 

asicign's picture
asicign

Nova,

 

I've worked as a chemist (and as a programer)... just curious why you switch to pounds for larger weights.  Metric is so much easier when you have to some math.