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I’m from Australia, and this site uses a weird imperial mix and metric measurements.

Weights are in grams, but temperature is in fahrenheit (I think, doesn’t actually say).

Please use one measurement system make it consistent, as well as switchable. Thanks.



Grams have become kind of standard for baking, even in the US.

I think this is due to the use of "baker's percentages", which specify the weight (not volume) of all ingredients in terms of a percentage of the weight of flour used. So for example, "3% salt" just means 3 grams of water for every 100 grams of floor.

It's a lot easier to do this using grams uniformly, than some mix of lbs, oz, cups, tsp, etc. The system really takes advantage of the ease of conversion between units in the metric system.

But the oven temperate doesn't change even if you add more flour, so there's no need to do any scaling conversions for that. This let's people get away with using antiquated units for temperate.


> So for example, "3% salt" just means 3 grams of water for every 100 grams of floor.

I think maybe there's a typo here with "salt" vs "water"?

I've had a hard time with these percentages. 3% salt means 3 grams of salt for every 97 grams of flour, but that doesn't seem to be how it's used in baking. Same with water: 100% hydration is half water, half flour, because they're talking in ratios rather than actual percentages.

I guess the important part is that these are percentage ratios, so it's really 3%:1 salt and 100%:1 hydration.


Yes, you're right! It should say "water" instead of "salt"...and it's too late to edit now.

I too have a hard time with the percentages - it's a ratio against the weight of the flour, not a proportion of the entire dry mass. I guess that's why they call them "baker's percentages", as opposed to "the common understanding of percentages" :)


It makes it easier to adjust the ratios that way. Increasing the contribution of an ingredient only changes the percentage for that ingredient (other than the flour, obviously).


I‘m from Germany. Thanks for having ingredients in grams and making it switchable. But how much is 425°F in Celsius? :)


Easy way to remember: 32F = 0C, -40F = -40C, and the relation is linear


More than 350° but less than 450°


This is weird. Though at least it uses grams for all the ingredients and doesn’t use cups or some other horrible measure.


It’s Canadian style


Reverse-Canadian then.

In Canada the temp is in C, but some weight measurements are in lbs.


Room temperatures and the weather are usually in Celsius, but I find cooking temps more often in Fahrenheit. We're just all over the place.




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