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Add baker's math chapter
This adds the start of the making a starter chapter by introducing the concept of baker's math
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\usepackage{booktabs}
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\usepackage{booktabs}
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\usepackage{filecontents}
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\usepackage{filecontents}
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\usepackage{longtable}
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\usepackage{longtable}
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\usepackage{float}
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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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\usepackage{tocloft}
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\usepackage{tocloft}
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\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
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\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
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\input{basics/how-sourdough-works}
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\input{basics/how-sourdough-works}
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\chapter{Making a sourdough starter}
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\chapter{Making a sourdough starter}
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\section{Baker's math}
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\input{sourdough-starter/sourdough-starter}
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\section{The process of making a starter}
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\section{How flour is fermented}
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\section{Determining starter readiness}
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\section{Maintenance}
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\section{Longterm starter storage}
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\chapter{Sourdough starter types}
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\chapter{Sourdough starter types}
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\section{The regular starter}
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\section{The regular starter}
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In this chapter you will learn how to make your
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own sourdough starter. Before doing so you will
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quickly learn about baker's math. Don't worry,
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it's a very simple way how to write recipe in
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a cleaner more scalable way. Once you get the hang
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of it you will want to write every recipe this way.
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You will learn to understand the signs to determine
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your starter's readiness. Furthermore you will
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also learn how to store your starter for
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long-term storage.
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\section{Baker's math}
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In a large bakery a determining factor is how
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much flour you have at hand. Based on the amount
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of flour you have you can calculate how many
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breads or buns you can make. To make it easy
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for bakers the quantity of each ingredient
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is calculated as a percentage based on how much flour you have.
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Let me demonstrate this with a small example from
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a pizzeria. In the morning you check and you realize you
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have around 1 kilogram of flour.
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Your default recipe calls for around 600 grams of water.
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That would be a typical pizza dough, not too dry but
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also not too wet. Then you would be using around 20 grams
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of salt and around 100 grams of sourdough starter.
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\footnote{This is my go to pizza dough recipe. In Napoli
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modern pizzerias would use fresh or dry yeast. However
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traditionally pizza has always been made with sourdough.}
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The next day you suddenly have 1.4 kilograms of flour
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at hand and can thus make more pizza dough. What do you do?
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Do you multiply all the ingredients by 1.4? Yes you could,
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but there is an easier way. This is where baker's math
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comes in handy. Let's look at the default recipe with baker's
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math and then adjust it for the 1.4 kilogram flour quantity.
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\begin{table}[H]
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\centering
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\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
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\begin{tabular}{|l|r|r|}
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\hline
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\textbf{Ingredient} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{\textbf{Explanation}} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{\textbf{Explanation}} \\ \hline
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1000g flour & 100\% & 1000g of 1000g = 100\% \\ \hline
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600g water & 60\% & 600g of 1000g = 60\% \\ \hline
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100g sourdough starter & 10\% & 100g of 1000g = 10\% \\ \hline
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20g salt & 2\% & 20g of 1000g = 2\% \\ \hline
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\end{tabular}%
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}
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\end{table}
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Note how each of the ingredients is calculated as a percentage
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based on the flour. The 100 percent is the baseline as the absolute
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amount of flour that you have at hand. In this case that's 1000 grams
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(1 kilogram).
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Now let's go back to our example and just the flour as we have
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more flour available the next day. As mentioned the next day
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we have 1.4 kilograms at hand (1400 grams).
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\begin{table}[H]
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\centering
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\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
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\begin{tabular}{|l|r|r|}
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\hline
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\textbf{Ingredient} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{\textbf{Baker's math}} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{\textbf{Calculated value}} \\ \hline
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Flour & 100\% & 1400*1 = 1400g \\ \hline
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Water & 60\% & 1400*0.6 = 840g \\ \hline
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Sourdough starter & 10\% & 1400*0.1 = 140g \\ \hline
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Salt & 2\% & 1400*0.02 = 28g \\ \hline
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\end{tabular}%
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}
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\end{table}
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For each ingredient we calculate the percentage
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based on the flour available (1400 grams.) So for the water
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we calculate 60 percent based on 1400. Open up your
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calculator and type in 1400 * 0.6 and you have
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the absolute value in grams that you should be using.
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In that case that is 840 grams. Proceed and do the same
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thing for all the other ingredients and you know
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your recipe.
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Let's say you would want to use 50 kilograms of flour
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the next day. What would you do? You would simply proceed
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and calculate the percentages one more time. I like this
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way of writing recipes a lot. Imagine you wanted to make
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some pasta. You would like to know how much sauce you should
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be making. Now rather than making a recipe just for you, the
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hungry family arrives. You are tasked with making pasta
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for 20 people. How would you calculate the amount of sauce
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you need? You go to the internet and check a recipe and then
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are completely lost when trying to scale it up.
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\section{The process of making a starter}
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\section{How flour is fermented}
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\section{Determining starter readiness}
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\section{Maintenance}
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\section{Longterm starter storage}
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