Pizza Dough is a recipe guide and calculator tool that helps home bakers create Neapolitan-style pizza dough.
The project addresses the challenge of making authentic Neapolitan pizza at home by providing a detailed recipe adapted from traditional methods to work in home kitchen setups. It explains the science behind the dough, particularly how gluten development and long slow fermentation create the characteristic thin center and airy crust with small air pockets. The recipe uses baker's math, expressing ingredient quantities as percentages of flour mass, which makes it easy to scale for any number of pizzas. The tool offers both yeast and sourdough fermentation options, aligned with standards set by the Neapolitan pizza association. An interactive calculator helps bakers compute exact ingredient quantities based on desired dough weight.
Home pizza enthusiasts who want to understand the principles behind Neapolitan pizza and achieve consistent results should consider this approach. The recipe suits anyone with access to a home oven who wants to make pizza with minimal ingredients: flour, water, salt, and yeast or sourdough starter. The emphasis on overnight fermentation reflects traditional Neapolitan practice and produces dough with superior flavor development. The baker's math approach makes the recipe flexible and scalable, whether making a single pizza or multiple batches.
The project maintains a focused scope on a single, well-documented recipe rather than offering multiple competing approaches. Development activity shows consistent refinement of the recipe documentation and supporting calculator tool, with attention to explaining the reasoning behind ingredient ratios and fermentation timing. The repository includes visual guides showing the complete process from ingredients through shaping, helping bakers understand each stage visually.
