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Grandma pizza dough calculator

Grandma pizza is the thin, olive-oil-crisped square from Long Island — pressed straight into an oiled sheet pan with barely any proofing, no par-bake, the sauce often spooned on last. The preset runs 65% hydration and a generous 3% oil, sized to your pan in grams per square centimetre.

Give it your pan dimensions and rise time; the calculator weighs the dough and writes the schedule — mix, press into the pan, dimple, top, and bake until the bottom is fried-crisp.

Compared with: Sicilian

Which pizza?

Thin, olive-oil-crisped square in a sheet pan — no par-bake, sauce on top.

How much pizza?

4 glorious pans
35 cm
35 cm

The rise

The yeast
8 h
21 °C

Here’s the dough!

8 h total
637 g per pan
2548 g of pure happiness
Flour1495 g
Water972 g
Salt33 g
Olive oil45 g
Yeast3.4 g

Just a pinch — time does the work, not the yeast. Forno at 260 °C — hotter is better!. Curious? Read the yeast guide.

The game plan

How it’s done

  1. Dissolve the yeast in the water.
  2. Add the flour, mix until no dry spots remain. Rest 20 minutes (autolyse).
  3. Add the salt, then the oil in two additions, and knead until smooth and elastic, 8–10 minutes.
  4. Bulk ferment, then divide and stretch into oiled pans (35×35 cm). Let it relax and fill the corners in stages.
  5. Dimple with oiled fingers, top, and bake until deeply golden.

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The clock is a suggestion. The dough is the boss. In bocca al lupo!

Impasto is a free pizza dough calculator for Neapolitan, New York, Roman, Sicilian, Detroit, thin crust and focaccia doughs — flour, water, salt and yeast weighed in baker's percentages, with the fermentation schedule written for you.

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