🍞 Kitchen & Cooking Tools

Scale any dough by baker’s percentages — where the numbers add up to 173% on purpose, and a 70% hydration dough is really 40% water.

Salt by percentage for either kind of brine — where a 5% dry brine and a 5% wet brine are different amounts, and the gap is your bucket rather than the recipe.

Coffee and water for any ratio — where a 1:16 brew is one part in seventeen, and misreading it doses you exactly one over the ratio too much.

Scale a recipe between tins by area — where an 8 to a 10 inch round is a quarter more across and 56% more cake, and a square holds exactly 4/pi more.

Servings by tin and by tier — where a 6/8/10 stack puts exactly half the cake on the bottom tier, because six squared plus eight squared is ten squared.

How much frosting a cake needs — where the sides overtake the top at exactly a quarter of the diameter, and frosting does not scale like cake.