Whole Wheat Bread Lab116 recipes

Whole Wheat Bread Lab · Calculator

Design your own whole wheat bread

The sliders start at the typical loaf: the median of 116 recipes for each ingredient, in grams per 100 g of flour. Move any of them within the range that 90% of recipes use (the 5th to the 95th percentile) and the grams update, with where your choice sits among the recipes and what that ingredient does.

This scales ratios; it is not a tested recipe. Each ingredient moves on its own against the flour, and a combination no recipe uses may not bake the way you expect. For the method, pan and oven, follow the real recipes nearest your numbers.

Flour

450 g, about 3 2/3 cups, makes one typical loaf.

Start from a recipe

Grams per 100 g of flour

  1. 360 g of the flour · 80%

    In the middle: 49% of recipes have a higher whole wheat share, 49% lower.

    Whole wheat flour as a share of all the flour. Bran cuts gluten strands, so a 100% whole wheat loaf is denser; many recipes mix in white flour.

  2. 320 g · 71%about 1 1/3 cups

    In the middle: 50% of recipes use more, 50% less.

    Whole wheat flour absorbs more water than white, so these doughs run wetter.

  3. 16 g · 3.5%about 1 1/2 tbsp

    In the middle: 48% of recipes use more, 50% less.

    Honey or molasses softens the bran's bitterness; honey wheat loaves sit at the top.

  4. 23 g · 5%about 1 1/2 tbsp

    In the middle: 47% of recipes use more, 50% less.

    Butter or oil keeps a whole grain loaf from drying out.

  5. 9 g · 1.9%

    In the middle: 49% of recipes use more, 45% less.

    About 2% of the flour.

  6. 6 g · 1.3%

    In the middle: 47% of recipes use more, 48% less.

    Whole grain doughs often use a little more yeast for the heavier flour.

Your whole wheat bread

Your whole wheat bread in grams, with approximate volumes
IngredientGrams
FlourIncluding the whole wheat450 gabout 3 2/3 cups
of which whole wheat360 g
Liquidmilk, buttermilk, yogurt, cream and water320 gabout 1 1/3 cups
Sweetenerwhite sugar, brown sugar, honey and syrups16 gabout 1 1/2 tbsp
Fatbutter, oil and shortening23 gabout 1 1/2 tbsp
Salt9 g
Yeast6 g
Total824 g

824 g in all from 450 g of flour, counting only the groups above.

Closest real recipe: Pan integral de espelta a las finas hierbas. Receta para… (directoalpaladar.com).

BakeThe median of 98 recipes is 375°F (190°C), most for 28 to 43 minutes at their own size. A bigger or smaller batch, or a different pan, changes the time.

The 3 real recipes nearest your numbers

Measured on whole wheat share, liquid, sweetener, fat, salt and yeast at once. These are published, tested recipes: follow one for its method, pan and timing, or load its percentages and adjust from there.

  1. 1

    Pan integral de espelta a las finas hierbas. Receta para… · directoalpaladar.com

    whole wheat share 100% · liquid 65% · sweetener 1.8% · fat 6.3% · salt 2% · yeast 1.3%

  2. 2

    Pain Complet aux Graines de Chia | Gourmandise Assia · gourmandiseassia.fr

    whole wheat share 100% · liquid 68% · sweetener 1.5% · fat 3.7% · salt 1.8% · yeast 1.6%

  3. 3

    Pane integrale · ricettedellanonna.net

    whole wheat share 100% · liquid 70% · sweetener 0.1% · fat 5.4% · salt 2% · yeast 1%

How the calculator works

Every recipe is reduced to baker's percentages: grams of each ingredient group per 100 g of flour. The starting point is the median of all 116 recipes for each group separately, so no single recipe is exactly the starting loaf. Grams are your flour weight times each percentage, rounded to the nearest 5 g above 50 g and the nearest gram or half gram below.

“More than 80% of recipes” counts the recipes with strictly less of that ingredient per gram of flour. The nearest recipes are measured on every ingredient at once, each scaled by how much recipes vary on it, so a wide-ranging ingredient does not outweigh a narrow one.

Only the groups listed are counted. Vanilla, spices, mix-ins and toppings are left out unless they have their own slider. Volumes are approximate: flour at 125 g a cup, sugar 200 g, butter or oil 225 g, milk and other liquids 240 g.