About The Granarchist

The Granarchist is a dedicated calculator suite for sourdough bakers. Every tool on this site is built around a single idea: when you are standing at the counter with flour on your hands and a starter that is about to peak, you need accurate numbers in three seconds — not a scroll through someone’s backstory about how they discovered baking during a sabbatical in Provence.

Most sourdough calculators live inside blog posts. They do one narrow thing, they round off numbers that should not be rounded, and their user experience is designed around search-engine rankings first and baker usability second. The Granarchist inverts that. The calculators come first. The explanations exist to make you a better baker, not to satisfy an algorithm. Every tool accounts for the details that simpler calculators skip — the flour and water hiding in your starter, the effect of your kitchen temperature on peak timing, the difference between a 1:1:1 and a 1:5:5 feed.

Why this exists

The gap is straightforward. Sourdough bakers reaching for math on their phone while dough is on the counter need the right answer immediately. They do not need a five-paragraph essay about the history of wild yeast. They do not need a calculator that ignores starter hydration. They do not need a tool that looks pretty but rounds to the nearest ten grams. Every calculator on this site respects that urgency. Inputs update results live. No submit buttons. No page reloads. No accounts. Open the page, type your numbers, get your answer.

Who’s behind it

Oddlogix LLC is a software consulting and SaaS company based in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The company’s founder has been baking sourdough for years and got tired of either bad calculators or spending twenty minutes doing hydration math on the back of a flour bag. This site is maintained as a labor of love and supported entirely by unobtrusive display advertising. There are no subscriptions, no premium tiers, and no plans to add them.

Editorial stance

Three commitments:

  1. Math is verified against published baker’s percentage references (Hamelman, Reinhart, Forkish). If a formula disagrees with established practice, we investigate before shipping.
  2. No sponsored content in calculator results. Ever. The numbers you see come from the math you entered, nothing else.
  3. No affiliate recommendations embedded in tool outputs. If specific products or books are suggested elsewhere on the site, they are chosen on merit and clearly disclosed.

How this is maintained

Calculators are tested locally before deployment. Math updates are logged in the site’s git history — the project is open to the operator’s team and content is reviewed monthly. If you spot a math error, report it via the contact page — these go straight to the top of the queue because accuracy is the entire point.

Use the calculators. Bookmark the ones you reach for most — URL hash state means shared links preserve your inputs exactly as you entered them. The site will keep expanding as long as bakers find it useful.