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This pizza dough calculator splits a total dough weight into flour, water, salt, oil, and yeast. It is a dough calculator for any dough that uses baker's percentages, and it is a bakers percentage calculator because flour is 100 and every other ingredient is a percent of the flour. Dengaro arranges equipment financing for kitchen equipment.
Flour
585g
Planning estimate from the numbers you enter. Coverage, density, waste and price are assumptions, not a supplier quote or an engineering specification.
How it works
Add the percentages, including 100 for the flour. Flour weight is total dough weight times 100 divided by that sum. Water, salt, oil, and yeast are the flour weight times each percent. Four balls at 250 grams is 1,000 grams of dough. At 65 percent hydration, 2 percent salt, 3 percent oil, and 1 percent yeast, the percentages sum to 171. Flour is 584.80 grams, water is 380.12 grams, salt is 11.70 grams, oil is 17.54 grams, and yeast is 5.85 grams. Those grams are the formula. A scale is what makes them real. This page does not invent a house recipe.
Formula
Each other ingredient is flour times its percent. The dough calculator uses the same split for bread or pizza. Change the percentages and the flour weight moves, because the ball weight stays fixed.
Example
Total dough is 1,000 grams and the baker's sum is 171. Flour is 584.80 grams and water is 380.12 grams. Salt, oil, and yeast follow their percentages of that flour. This bakers percentage calculator does not round to a measuring cup.
Tips
If you would rather start from flour, multiply the flour by each percent yourself. Ball weight on this page is finished dough, including water. A higher hydration lowers the flour grams inside the same ball.
Equipment
Dengaro arranges financing for kitchen equipment. The dough weight is not a loan amount.
Important questions
Of the flour. That is baker's math. Sixty-five percent hydration means water weighs 65 percent of the flour, not 65 percent of the ball.
Yes. Enter the ball count and weight you want, and set oil or yeast to zero if the dough does not use them. The formula does not care that the title says pizza.
The ball weight is fixed. Water, salt, oil, and yeast take some of that weight, so flour is what remains. Raise the ball weight if you want more flour too.
No. This is a planning calculator. The financing link is for kitchen equipment such as a mixer or an oven.
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