How many times have you found a recipe you wanted to bake but it called for sourdough and you only have yeast? Or the other way around, a yeasted recipe and you want to use your starter?
It happens constantly. And most of the time bakers either skip the recipe entirely or try to guess at the conversion and hope for the best. Neither one is a great option.
So I built something to fix that.
It's called the Sourdough and Yeast Converter and it does exactly what the name says. You give it a recipe, tell it which direction you want to go, and it handles the math accurately. No guessing, no hoping, no searching the internet for conversion ratios that may or may not be right.
Here's how simple it is:
Take a photo of a recipe and upload it. Drop in a PDF. Or just copy and paste the text directly. The tool reads it, understands it, and converts it. Yeasted to sourdough or sourdough to yeasted, it works both ways.
I've tested this on a lot of recipes. It simply works.
This is especially useful right now as we're working through Japanese Milk Bread this week. If you want to bake the sourdough version but only have the yeasted recipe, or you found a version online you want to try with instant yeast instead of starter, this tool handles it for you.
Give it a try on any recipe you've been wanting to bake. Then come back and tell us how it went. I'd love to know what you converted first.