First up, add your water and salt. Stir. Next add yeast / starter. Stir. If you are putting sugar or olive oil in the mix, go ahead and add that too.
Stir more. Gradually stir in flour till it's all nice and blended and when you can't do that then dump more in. Then shove it all in your mixer.
Mix until it is consistent (probably for about 4-6 minutes). Then let it rest for 30-60 minutes. Then knead the whole thing a couple of times, and then let it rise for 24 hours in a cool place (between 56-60°F is probably best). Now, 12-8 hours before you're going to eat, break your bulk dough into multiple balls, knead, and let it raise again till cooking time. If you're in a warmer climate, you might want to do this 3-4 hours before hand, since warmer temps will make things rise faster.
"I don't have 36 hours to do this."
Use more yeast and let it rest for 20 minutes, break up your dough balls, and then let it raise for however long you can. I would give it at least a couple of hours.
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What's with all the % numbers?
It's called Baker's Percentage. Here is what King Arthur has to say about it:
When writing a formula, the easiest method is to do so using what is known as baker’s percentage, or baker’s math. In using baker’s percentage, each ingredient in a formula is expressed as a percentage of the flour weight, and the flour weight is always expressed as 100%.
August 2024
- Small UI updates, and added a hidden new color scheme which sort of matches another one you might be aware of.
- Removed the tinyurl link because the API seems to have changed.
July 2024
- Removed "whole wheat" as a field and changed it to "Flour No. 2", as well as a "Flour No. 3" that'll show up if have a value for No. 2.
August 2023
- Swapped the order of the Water and Flour fields, as I always measure water first.
- No more NaN values in the fields, as the calculator will now put in some default values if it can't find a reasonable one otherwise.
- The notes field now shows up in the page title before the (Dough Calculator) part.
April 2020
- Updated appearance.
- Added some built in presets, as well as a TinyURL link shortener, to share your links with other folks.
January 19, 2017
- Added a trivia section about your dough below the total, but for now it only show when you add starter to your recipe.
June 20, 2016
- Oil is no longer subtracted from the water total.
- Added sugar, leaven (aka, starter), and "other" options.
- Reworked the formula for bakers percentages, simplifying things for myself.
- Took away the poolish information. I'll expand on that again at some later date.
- The calculator will now hide the ingredients that have a weight of zero.
- Added a mini-faq, with a link to baker's percentage info.
- Renamed the olive oil bookmark variable, so you'll need to make a new bookmark if you saved that.
June 10, 2016
- Hello world.