How to Calculate Sourdough Hydration Including the Starter
Include flour and water from a liquid or stiff starter in sourdough hydration, with two checked examples.
THE BAKER’S JOURNAL / 5 GUIDES
Sourdough tools & logging.
Keep the useful numbers: flour, water, starter, temperature and what actually happened. Find the maths and worksheets to make your next bake easier to compare.
PUT THE KNOW-HOW TO WORK
Open the baker’s tools.
A free tool to keep the maths beside the method.
Baker’s Percentages for Sourdough
Use flour as 100%, convert sourdough percentages to grams and distinguish starter percentage from prefermented flour.
What to Look for in a Sourdough Starter Tracker App
Compare starter tracker apps by feed logging, reminder control, observations, data access and cost.
A Printable Sourdough Bake Journal Template
Print or copy a one-loaf sourdough log and compare two bakes using actual times, temperature, rise and crumb.
How to Scale a Sourdough Recipe by Dough Weight
Scale a 960 g sourdough formula to two 850 g loaves, with a checked rounding table and capacity notes.