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Hydration Calculator

November 25, 2016 - 11:23am

T. Fargo

Hydration Calculator

Hello everyone at TFL, and happy holidays! I got to thinking about hydration in breads and created a handy calculator to assist me. I would like to share it with you, so I made it shareable via a link to my Google drive:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bUjHt7ETXzzk70n0ehKOawJMp5Wn0X_fkTgI_gjPFJs/edit?usp=sharing

It looks roughly like this...

Hydration Calculator
Additions:	1	2	3	4	5	6
Flour (g)							0
Liquid (g)							0

Hydration %			0.0%
To achieve:		50%	You need:		0
To achieve:		55%	You need:		0
To achieve:		60%	You need:		0
To achieve:		65%	You need:		0
To achieve:		70%	You need:		0
To achieve:		75%	You need:		0
To achieve:		80%	You need:		0
To achieve:		85%	You need:		0
To achieve:		90%	You need:		0
To achieve:		95%	You need:		0
To achieve:		100%	You need:		0

Enter your flours measured in grams in any of the 6 boxes under the addition number, then liquid amounts. The calculator will let you know how much liquid is needed to get to your approximate target.