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Pinsa romana dough calculator

Pinsa romana is the airy, crisp Roman flatbread — very high hydration, a long cold ferment, and an oval shape stretched by hand. The preset runs 80% water for that open, bubbly crumb and a shatteringly crisp base.

Tell it how many you want and how long the dough rests; it weighs the flour, water, salt and yeast and writes the schedule — mix, ball, the long cold nap, then a hot bake.

Compared with: Neapolitan

Which pizza?

Airy Roman flatbread — very wet dough, long ferment, stretched to an oval.

How much pizza?

4 beautiful pizzas
230 g

The rise

The yeast
8 h
21 °C

Here’s the dough!

8 h total
230 g per ball
920 g of pure happiness
Flour498 g
Water399 g
Salt12 g
Olive oil10 g
Yeast1.1 g

Just a pinch — time does the work, not the yeast. Forno at 300 °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. The dough will be sticky — that’s correct. Do 3 sets of stretch-and-folds, 20 minutes apart, instead of heavy kneading.
  5. Bulk ferment, then divide into 4 × 230 g balls. Cover in a lightly oiled box.
  6. When the balls have relaxed and roughly doubled, stretch by hand, keeping air in the rim, top and bake.

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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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