How does the sourdough recipe converter work?
It calculates how much flour and water are already inside your starter, deducts those amounts from the source recipe, then adds the starter.
Flavour File
Same recipe.
A sourdough possibility.
Paste the ingredients you already love—even with bullets, headings or common mass units. Tell us about your starter and we'll rebalance the formula with deterministic baker's maths, showing exactly what we understood and what changed.
No signupNo recipe storedNo AI arithmetic
Preview
Your original stays yours.
We rebalance the flour and free liquid contributed by your starter instead of simply adding starter on top.
✓ Deterministic baker's maths
✓ Active starter, discard or hybrid
✓ No invented yeast amount
✓ Nothing entered here is saved
Why this is different
Keep the recipe. Change the fermentation.
Your starter already contains flour and water. Flavour File calculates that contribution from the starter amount and hydration you enter, then adjusts supported flour and free liquid.
If the recipe is ambiguous, the converter stops instead of inventing a density, ingredient role or yeast quantity.
Sourdough conversion FAQ
Can I use sourdough discard?
Yes in hybrid mode. Inactive or discard starter can contribute flavour while a commercial yeast amount you choose provides the primary leavening.
Does it guess ingredient conversions?
No. Exact mass units such as g, kg, oz and lb can be normalised to grams. Volume measurements such as cups and ml still stop because converting them safely depends on ingredient density.