What’s on the Baker's Percentages poster
The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes.
- Every ingredient is expressed as a percentage of the total flour weight.
- ingredient % = (ingredient ÷ flour) × 100
- 500 g flour, 350 g water = 70% hydration
- 10 g salt on 500 g flour = 2% salt
- Scaling to 1 kg flour = 700 g water, 20 g salt
- Common mistake: Percentages adding to 100 → They add to well over 100
60% hydration is a firm, easy dough. 75% is slack and open-crumbed. 85% is ciabatta and hard to handle.
Questions about the Baker's Percentages poster
- What’s on the Baker's Percentages poster?
- The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes. Every ingredient is expressed as a percentage of the total flour weight.; ingredient % = (ingredient ÷ flour) × 100; 500 g flour, 350 g water = 70% hydration; 10 g salt on 500 g flour = 2% salt; Scaling to 1 kg flour = 700 g water, 20 g salt; Common mistake: Percentages adding to 100 → They add to well over 100. 60% hydration is a firm, easy dough. 75% is slack and open-crumbed. 85% is ciabatta and hard to handle.
- Who is the Baker's Percentages poster for?
- Baker's Percentages belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning measures can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Baker's Percentages poster?
- Flour is always 100%. Everything else is a percentage of it. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Baker's Percentages belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Baker's Percentages?
- Baking at Altitude, Brining and Coffee Ratios sit alongside Baker's Percentages in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Baking at AltitudeBriningCoffee Ratios
- Is the Baker's Percentages poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Baker's Percentages downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Baker's Percentages poster print at?
- Baker's Percentages is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Baker's Percentages loses nothing.Printing guide
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