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Basic Homemade Pizza Dough
thespruceeats.com · 2009 · Original
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DietVegan. 6 ingredients checked.
Against 5,130 pizza recipes
70% hydration: wetter than 54% of the 1,480 doughs that parse, baked at 425°F, hotter than 35% of recipes that state an oven.
Baker's percentages
Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.
Flour
254g
Water
178g
Hydration
70.0%
Salt
1.8%
Yeast
2.68%
Oil
16.1%
Sauce
n/a
Cheese
n/a
Dough weight
492g
Process
Bake temp
425°F / 218°C
Bake time
20 min
Oven
home standard
Surface
stone
Ingredients (6)
- waterwarm water3/4 cup · 178g
- flourbread flour2 cup · 254g
- oilolive oil3 tbsp · 40.8g
- sugarsugar2 tsp · 8.4g
- saltsalt3/4 tsp · 4.5g
- yeastactive dry yeast2 1/4 tsp · 6.8g
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