July 15, 2020 - 1:34pm
Calculating hydration
Howdy. I am new to baking bread and want to make sure I am calculating my hydration correctly.
- 300g Bread Flour
- 150g Whole Wheat F
- 296g Water
- 15g Salt
- 154g Starter (100% hydation)
- 915g Total Weight
My Math: Starter divided by Two and add number to Water & Flour
Water (296+77) / Flour (300+150+77) = 72% Total Hydration
If this is wrong could someone help me understand my error?
Thank you!
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So you analyzed it correctly, but must have made a math error. I come up with 70.7%
Water is 296 plus 77 which equals 373.
Flour is 300 plus 150 plus 77 which is 527.
373/527 = 70.7%
Great Thanks; your response was helpful. I am happy I was in the ballpark. :)
Cheers!
and to see that in %, multiply by 100. One gets 70.8% when rounding up. I know that's a stickler thing but when hydration goes beyond 100% it is sometimes good to know how one moved the decimal point over two places.