Kristin Hoffman (author of Baker Bettie’s Better Baking Book) explains the concept by showing how to calculate a recipe’s formula.
Hello,
One of the most valuable things I learned in culinary school was how to calculate and use baker’s percentages.
If you aren’t familiar with the concept, baker’s percentages are a way professional baker’s write their recipe formulas where each ingredient is listed as a percentage in relation to how much flour is in the recipe.
But this technique can be helpful for some home baker’s as well, especially with bread baking!
I made a YouTube video breaking down the technique and I tried to keep it as simple to understand as possible!
If reading is an easier way to learn, then I also wrote an article that you can follow.
In this article I also created formula calculators that you can use so you don’t actually have to do the math for yourself!
Happy Baking,
Baker Bettie
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