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Dough
Calculator

by the gram, the cup, or the pound

Pick a style, set the size, and the formula scales to whatever you are baking tonight. Twenty-five regional doughs with the real baker's percentages, a yeast dose worked out from your actual schedule, and every weight convertible to whatever your kitchen measures in.

Order pad

Everything here is a percentage of the flour weight. Change any of it.

Style

Loads that style's formula and schedule.

Batch
Work it out from the pan or the pizza size

Ounces of dough per square inch.

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Leavening
Schedule

The yeast dose comes out of this. Add the warm hours before and after the fridge: they do more work than the cold ones.

Water temperature

Mixing warms the dough. Work backwards from the temperature you want it to finish at.

Why the yeast number moves

Fermentation roughly doubles in speed for every 8°C warmer, so two hours on the counter is worth about eight in the fridge. The dose here is fitted to that curve and to two doses bakers agree on: 0.5% instant yeast for a same-day dough, and 0.25% for a 48-hour cold ferment after a short warm bulk. Treat it as a starting point and let the poke test have the last word.

How to run a cold ferment →

Thickness factor

Ounces of dough per square inch. It is the only number that makes a 12-inch Neapolitan and an 18-inch sheet pan comparable, and it is how the sizer works out a ball weight for any pan you own. Thin and crisp lives near 0.06, New York around 0.10, Detroit and Sicilian around 0.14, deep dish past 0.16.

Cups, honestly

A cup of flour is 120 g if you spoon it in and 145 g if you scoop it from the bag, which is a 20% error before you have done anything. The volume conversions here are real and they are provided because a scale is not always in the room, but the scale is the single cheapest upgrade to your pizza.