Pizza Dough

A calculator for honest dough. Set how many balls you want; get the exact recipe at the same percentages.

How much dough?

4 balls × 280 g

Your recipe

Biga

1,120g total dough

Stiff preferment. Build the biga 12–18 h ahead, then mix into the final dough.

PrefermentBiga · 50% hydration

Flour50%333g
Water25%167g
Yeast0.2%1g

Final dough

Flour50%333g
Water40%267g
Salt2.8%18.7g
Yeast0.2%1g
All of the preferment501g
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Share of the total flour fermented ahead.

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Water in the preferment, relative to its flour. Biga ~50%, poolish 100%.

Dough methods

New to preferments? Each method changes how flour, water and yeast are split. Short guides:

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