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04 / Formula comparison

A bigger batch.
Or a different bake?

Put two weighed formulas beside each other. Compare every ingredient against its own flour weight, and see what actually changed.

The starting figures are an illustrative comparison, not a complete or tested recipe.

A worked comparison

Formula A has 500 g flour and 375 g added water: 75% of flour weight. Formula B has 750 g flour and 585 g added water: 78%. The batch is larger, and the added-water proportion is also 3 percentage points higher.

Scaling A’s water by the flour factor of 1.5 would give 562.5 g. B contains 22.5 g more than that. Oil stays at 5%, salt at 2% and instant yeast at 0.4% in this illustrative pair.

Keep the change precise

Grams, percentages
and the rest of the story.

One percentage point is one part per hundred.

Moving from 75% to 78% is a change of 3 percentage points. The tool keeps that separate from the change in grams and from a relative percentage increase.

A formula is only part of a bake.

Record the flour blend, ingredient products, mixing method, temperatures, pan, timing and actual observations separately. Equal weights do not make different ingredients behave alike. No ingredient swap or gluten-free or vegan result is validated here.

Keep water accounting explicit.

The tool does not infer the water content of eggs, milk or other ingredients. For a starter, count its flour and water in the appropriate totals rather than treating all of its weight as water. Unknown composition should remain unknown.

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