My starter is different
Use your own starter without changing the recipe.
A recipe may call for 100% hydration while your starter is stiffer or more liquid. Calculate how much to use and how to correct the recipe water.
Flour, water and total recipe weight stay the same.
Compare the starters
What does the recipe call for and what do you have?
Enter the starter from the recipe, then only the hydration of your own starter.
100% means the starter contains equal weights of flour and water.
Your substitution
Adjust these two amounts
Use your starter131.25 g
- Add recipe water
- 18.75 g
- Replaces
- 150 g
- Flour from starter stays
- 75 g
Your starter is stiffer. Use slightly less starter and add the missing water to the other recipe water.
Check the complete recipe
Want to change the total dough or hydration too? Enter the recipe in the recipe analyser.
How to read the result
Use a different starter without changing the dough
The converter preserves the intended flour contribution and corrects the water difference between the starter you have and the one requested.Worked example
Replace 150 g starter at 100%
The recipe asks for 150 g starter at 100% hydration, but yours is at 75%.Use 131.25 g of your starter and add 18.75 g water.What it means
The flour contribution stays equal
Both versions contribute 75 g flour. Only the water held in the starter changes, so that difference is corrected separately.Common mistake
Assuming starter is always half flour
That is only true at 100% hydration. A stiffer starter contains proportionally more flour.Use it for
Bake a recipe with a different starter
Use it when the recipe and your available starter have different hydration percentages.Not for this
Not for building a levain
To calculate how much seed starter, flour and water to feed, use the starter-build calculator.From calculation to bake
