Questions about the Baking Ratios poster

What’s on the Baking Ratios poster?

A 7-row table: What · Ratio · Reads as. Ratios by weight, not volume. Flour is always the 1. Bread — 5 : 3 — flour : water (+ salt, yeast); Pastry — 3 : 2 : 1 — flour : fat : water; Pound cake — 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 — flour : fat : sugar : egg; Pancakes — 2 : 2 : 1 — liquid : flour : egg; Cookies — 3 : 2 : 1 — flour : fat : sugar; Muffins — 2 : 2 : 1 : 1 — flour : liquid : egg : fat; Shortbread — 3 : 2 : 1 — flour : butter : sugar. Bread at 5:3 is 60% hydration — a firm, easy dough. Push toward 75% for an open, holey crumb.

Who is the Baking Ratios poster for?

Baking Ratios belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ratios can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Baking Ratios poster?

Learn the ratio and you no longer need the recipe — only the ingredients you happen to have. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Baking Ratios belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Baking Ratios?

Doughs, Cake Ratios and Cocktail Ratios sit alongside Baking Ratios in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.DoughsCake RatiosCocktail Ratios

Is the Baking Ratios poster free to download and print?

Yes. Baking Ratios downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Baking Ratios poster print at?

Baking Ratios is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Baking Ratios loses nothing.Printing guide