Calculation troubles

June 16, 2016 - 6:20pm

Andrewjs

Calculation troubles

maybe you fresh loafers Can help me with my pore math skills.

if you have 215 g of leavin in a final levain build and want to build up to that, how do you caculate that If it's 20 percent starter, 60 % water and 100% flour. In other words how much flour water and starter do you need to total 210 grams. Is there an easy way of calculating that?

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drogon

Jun 16 2016 - 10:54pm

Divide it by 5.

That is, if you want a 100% levian.

So you need 215g of levian. Divide by 5 and get 43. Use 43g of starter then double that 86g flour and the same again, 86g of water, mix, stand and wait a few hours and you have 215g of active levian ready to mix into your dough.

If your starter is 20% of the mix and you have 215g starter then the flour in the final mix is: 20% of X = 215; re-arange and get 215 * 100/20 = 1075g. The water is 60% of that 1075 = 645g.

Normally you'd start with the total flour though, so e.g. 1000g of flour, 20% starter is 200g (and to make that at 100% do the divide by 5 thing and get 40g starter, 80+80 flour + water) and 600g water in the final dough. (don't forget the salt)

Hope that helps...

-Gordon

Andrewjs

Jun 17 2016 - 3:32am

Levain amount

ok so let me clerify.. I'm trying to find out how much is in the first leavain build. The 215 is the final leavin build.

So if 215g at 60% hydration is the starting leavin for the final leavin build how to find out how much water, starter is 20%. It all has to equal 215. If it was calculated like you did, it would be at 100% hydration, but I need it to be at 60%

Andrewjs

Jun 17 2016 - 3:44am

Good idea

http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/28835/high-extraction-milling-tarlee-miche-biscuits-and-jam

im ending with 215, and I'm trying to figure out an easy way to caculate the previous leavin build to get to 215. So 215 is the final levain amount for the 3rd build. Assuming all builds at at the same hyrdation as the formula for the final build. it says previous leavain build, and I'm not sure how to start the formula off. I think he is following Gerard's tripple build leaven, or at least inspiration.

Andrewjs

Jun 17 2016 - 4:19am

helpfull information

I'm using a 60% hydration starter and only have a small amount of starter so building to 216 was the part I was having trouble figuring out.

Thanks for the help!