🍕 Pizza Dough Calculator

Neapolitan-style · KitchenAid · 300 °C + baking steel

Variant default: 66.5% ·

Advanced

20 g sea salt for 675 g flour is 2.96% — use 3.0%.

Reserve water for yeast, ice, and gradual addition after autolyse.

Optional override. At 22 °C, the best 18½ h profile uses 4.0 g/kg.

Optional Manitoba/Americana percentage. The rest is Caputo base flour.

Leave empty to assume room temp.

Extra dough for mixer/bowl losses.

🔍 Dough diagnostics

Overproofed

  • Flat ball, sticky / fragile
  • Large bubbles collapsing
  • Sour smell
  • Tears when lifted

Fix next time

  • Reduce yeast 25–50%
  • Shorten warm bulk
  • Use colder water
  • Ball & refrigerate sooner
  • Prefer the 30h profile over 48h in hot weather

Underproofed

  • Tight ball, hard to stretch
  • Little gas
  • Tears from resistance

Fix

  • For the best 18½ h profile at 22 °C: use 4.0 g fresh yeast/kg, bulk 3 h, refrigerate ~14½ h, then bench 1 h
  • If there is still almost no activity after the 3 h bulk, check yeast freshness and the actual fridge temperature
  • Change only one variable next time: yeast, hydration, warm time, or fridge time