Yeast Converter

In the baking world, yeast is one of the primary ingredients, and this yeast converter helps you achieve the perfect balance of yeast and flour for your bread 🍞! Since there are different types of yeast available, we may often find ourselves needing to convert active dry yeast to instant, or convert fresh yeast to dry yeast to obtain the optimal yeast-to-flour ratio.

Be it Thanksgiving 🥧 or someone's birthday 🎂 or even an impromptu pizza party🍕, baked goods form an integral part of the celebrations, and are one of the unseen stars behind those perfect pies, cakes, and pizzas, is yeast!

When it comes to baking 🧤, yeast is most commonly used as a leavening agent that helps the dough rise and gives the bread a spongy texture. A few food items for which the dough is prepared using yeast are:

• Bread;
• Waffle;
• Pie 🥧;
• Pretzel 🥨;
• Bagel;
• Doughnut 🍩;
• Shortcake 🍰; and
• …many more!

Oh, but remember, if you have pets 🐕, yeast is generally not considered a healthy addition to dog food 🐶 since it may cause allergies. So you may want to steer clear of it when it comes to your pet food!

The 4 common types of yeast you can find in the market are:

• Active dry yeast;
• Instant yeast;
• Compressed fresh baker's yeast; and
• Brewers' yeast.

Some recipes may call for one type of yeast while you have the other one, but fret not! Using our yeast conversion chart, it's perfectly okay to substitute yeast of one type with yeast of another type.

Sure, people use yeast in many types of dough, but just in case you're quarantined or generally bored and decide to make salt dough for artistic purposes, then there's no need to add yeast to this dough 😂!

But if you do get isolated, and you're craving for some easy quarantine food (see Don't panic calculator), or you want to indulge in an extra-large slice of cake 🍰 without worrying about calories for once, go the extra mile, and add yeast in order to tantalize your taste buds 😋!

To convert instant yeast to active dry yeast, the magic number is 1.5! Active dry yeast quantity should be 1.5 times the quantity of instant yeast to achieve the same dough consistency.

Conversely, if you want the active dry yeast to instant yeast conversion, you'll need to divide by 1.5, which is equivalent to multiplying the active dry yeast quantity by ²/₃.

So, for example, if the recipe calls for 4 tbsp of instant yeast, you will need 4 × 1.5 = 6 tbsp of active dry yeast.

And if the recipe calls for 9 tbsp of active dry yeast, you will need 9 × ²/₃ = 6 tbsp of instant yeast.

In this manner, we can easily find the quantity of instant yeast vs. active yeast if we know one of the quantities. This will help us substitute active dry yeast for instant yeast, or vice versa, to get the perfect yeast-to-flour ratio in the dough!

If you're wondering how to convert fresh yeast to dry yeast (or rather, fresh yeast to active dry yeast), wonder no more!

The equivalent active dry yeast substitute for fresh yeast can be found by dividing the fresh yeast quantity by 2! This simple hack will help you with your fresh-to-dry yeast conversion!

Alternatively, if you are looking for active dry yeast to fresh yeast conversion, then you would multiply the quantity by 2!

This handy tip will help you with your cooking measurement 🥄 to get that perfect consistency!

Compressed yeast, also known as compressed fresh baker's yeast, can be substituted with instant yeast by taking a quantity that is one-third of the compressed yeast quantity.

So, for example, if you want to bake a pizza 🍕 and the recipe calls for 12 tbsp of compressed yeast, you can substitute it with 4 tbsp of instant yeast!

Brewers' yeast is commonly also known as beer yeast. It's much less concentrated than active dry yeast. So if we want to substitute brewers' yeast with active dry yeast, we'd need roughly half of the corresponding quantity since the active yeast is more concentrated.

For example, 2 tbsp of brewers' yeast will be equivalent to about 1 tbsp of active dry yeast.

If you find yourself having a type of yeast that's different from the one mentioned in the recipe, then this yeast conversion calculator will come to your rescue! All you need to do is the following:

1. Select the type of yeast you want to convert from.
2. Choose the type of yeast you want to convert to.
3. Specify the quantity of the yeast.
4. Voila! The yeast converter will show you the equivalent amount for the type of yeast you want!

Using this yeast conversion calculator, you can:

• Convert fresh yeast to dry yeast;
• Convert instant yeast to active dry yeast;
• Convert fresh yeast to instant yeast;
• …and choose many more such combinations!

The next time you plan to cook 🍳 some deliciously fluffy and light pancakes 🥞, don't forget to include yeast in your shopping list, along with eggs 🥚 and butter! Check out our perfect pancake calculator for more.

To make things easier for you, you can also do the following conversions in this calculator for a single type of yeast by simply changing the units.

To summarize the various conversions involved, here is a nice yeast conversion table for your ready reference:

So the next time you dig into a super-soft and delicious croissant 🥐 or a baguette 🥖, you know the secret ingredient behind it! Have a yeasty meal 🍽️!