French Baguettes
Amanda Rettke--iambaker.net · iambaker.net · 2021 · 4
Against 138 French bread recipes
Less salt than 75% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 138 French bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 75% of recipes: 1.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2%.
- Water above the middle half: 71% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 67%, more than 74% of recipes use.
- Yeast in the middle half of recipes: 0.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.8%.
Ingredients (4)
- ½ teaspoon rapid rise yeast≈ 1.6 g
- 1½ cups water, (room temperature)≈ 356 g
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt≈ 8 g
- 4 cups all-purpose flour≈ 500 g
flour 500 gbatter 865 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 138 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Water71% · 76th percentile · median 67%
- Salt1.6% · 21st percentile · median 2%
- Yeast0.3% · 26th percentile · median 0.8%
- Sugar0% · 36th percentile · median 0%
- Fat0% · 39th percentile · median 0%
Oven
- Temperature
- 550°F / 290°C
- median 450°F
- Time
- 15 minutes
- median 22 minutes
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