Pizza Dough Target Quantity Calculator

Calculate an ingredient weight for pizza dough from flour weight and a chosen baker’s percentage. Enter your own quantities and see the worked example.

How to use Pizza Dough Target Quantity Calculator

1. Enter Flour Weight, Target Baker's % in the matching stated or selected unit. 2. Flour weight must be positive and the entered percentage non-negative. This calculates your selected percentage; it does not recommend a formula. Dough-ball weights are measured before baking. Pizza diameter, crust thickness, fermentation and oven settings are not derived. 3. Select Calculate or press Enter to see the result. 4. Select Select Copy result to copy the answer, or Reset to clear the form.

Why use this tool?

Use this tool to calculate an ingredient weight for pizza dough from flour weight and a chosen baker’s percentage. Choose the dough-ball weight for your own recipe and pizza size before scaling the batch.

How the calculation works

Ingredient weight = flour weight × chosen baker’s percentage ÷ 100. Flour weight must be positive and the entered percentage non-negative. This calculates your selected percentage; it does not recommend a formula. Dough-ball weights are measured before baking. Pizza diameter, crust thickness, fermentation and oven settings are not derived. Decimal quantity arithmetic uses the entered values before display rounding. Quantities use up to six decimal places; smaller nonzero results use scientific notation. Currency uses the selected currency’s minor unit. Inputs and numeric results are bounded by magnitude 9,007,199,254,740,991. Baker’s percentage reference: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/pro/reference/bakers-percentage

Example

Pizza Dough example: 500 g flour × a chosen 65% ÷ 100 = 325 g of the ingredient.

Practical tip

Choose the dough-ball weight for your own recipe and pizza size before scaling the batch.