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by mcdonje 1359 days ago
Yeah, the total is wrong. It's not a weird bakers' math total. It's a wrong total.

If you used the formula with a base of 1000 grams of flour, that's:

    water: 660g
    salt: 20g
    yeast: 6g
That adds to 1686g of dough.

Usually, bakers allow for a reasonably large margin of error, and they'll also intentionally diverge from a formula based on circumstance or whim. Getting to 1700 from 1686 would take an intentional diversion.