Hydration is the heart of baker percentage, and it simply means the weight of water as a percentage of the weight of flour. A 70 percent hydration dough has 700 grams of water for every 1000 grams of flour, and higher hydration generally gives a more open, airy crumb but a stickier, harder to handle dough. This calculator works two ways: enter your flour and water weights to see the resulting hydration percentage, or enter your flour and a target percentage to find the exact water weight you need. Baker percentage always uses flour as the 100 percent baseline, which is why the same recipe scales cleanly to any batch size. It is the standard language of bread recipes. Everything is computed locally in your browser, instantly and privately.
Hydration is water weight divided by flour weight, shown as a percentage, so 700 grams water to 1000 grams flour is 70 percent.
Yes, enter your flour weight and a target hydration percentage and it returns the water needed to hit that target.
Higher hydration gives a wetter, more open crumb but stickier dough, while lower hydration gives a tighter, easier to handle dough.
Hydration is the heart of baker percentage, and it simply means the weight of water as a percentage of the weight of flour. A 70 percent hydration dough has 700 grams of water for every 1000 grams of flour, and higher hydration generally gives a more open, airy crumb but a stickier, harder to handle dough.
Yes. Baker Hydration Percentage Calculator is completely free, with no sign-up and no usage limits.
Yes. Baker Hydration Percentage Calculator runs in any modern web browser. There is nothing to download or install.
Yes. Baker Hydration Percentage Calculator runs entirely on your device in your browser, so nothing you enter is uploaded to a server.