converting weight to cups for bread

Hi Susan - oh I am so NOT experienced at baking - but I do fly by the seat of my pants a LOT in the kitchen, and I have made this baguette recipe with my brother (once), so I know more or less what I am shooting for. Today I add starter and stretch and fold, then tomorrow I bake. I will post a photo if they come out nice!!!!

I recently got a digital scale, but I have been using a spring scale for a while, with both metric and 'English' units on it. The spring scale may not be as precise as the digital, but making bread has wiggle room -- you're an experienced baker, right? (I believe that dependence on devices supresses our innate and learned instincts in cooking, the handfuls and pinches of our predecessors, which produced many superlative results.)

Please let us know how it turns out.

Thank you guys! Mathy stuff so NOT my forte!!! The dough is having a rest in the fridge ...

i weighed these w my oxo digital kitchen scale.

and 10 g salt is a good tablespoonful.

300 g water is equal to a smidge more than 1 1/4 cup water. I'll measure the salt next.

300g water should be 300ml (give or take a tiny bit depending on your altitude) if I remember correctly.

The conversion for flour, depends on what kind of flour you are using. Assuming All Purpose Flour, then 425g of flour is (roughly) 804 ml according to this site http://www.traditionaloven.com/tutorials/conversion.html which also has conversions for several different kinds of flour.

Knowing of course, that converting weight to volume is an imprecise science as any little thing can effect it like moisture content in the air, how tightly packed the flour is, if it's sifted or not, &c. But then again, back in the day, not all home kitchens had scales and home baking was done by feel more than by recipe and precise measurements.

I'm guessing it's somewhere close to 3 1/2 cups of flour. aargersi, look on the side of your flour bag (nutritional info) and see what the weight is for a serving. E.G. my King Arthur Flour says 1/4 cup = 30 grams. So 1 cup of KA flour is equal to 120 grams.

Fluff up your flour real good with a whisk. Spoon it into a cup measure, skim off the top with the flat side of a knife or something, and remove 2 tablespoons. That'll get you pretty close.

Here's a great web site for doing conversions of grams to ounces etc.
http://www.metric-conversions.org/weight/grams-to-ounces-table.htm