Ever wondered how much dough you need for a 12-inch, 16-inch, or 18-inch pizza? Or how to size the dough for a square or rectangular pizza? In this video, Scott Wiener of Scott's Pizza Tours breaks down the simple formula to calculate the perfect pizza dough ball weight for any size or shape.
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00:00Heyo, Scott here reporting from Pizza University, where I'm going to teach you how to calculate
00:05the proper dough ball size for any size pizza.
00:09It only takes a little bit of math and a lot of joyous nature.
00:14So I'm going to show you how to do this here at Pizza University in the Start Smart class.
00:18We have been using a 355 gram dough ball to make a 12 inch New York style pizza.
00:24If you like that size pizza with that size dough ball, I got great news because we can
00:29figure out exactly how many grams per square inch we used for that dough ball.
00:34All you need to do is figure out that a 12 inch pizza has a surface area of 113 square
00:41inches.
00:42So just to bring you back to middle school, that means pi r squared, right?
00:47That's the area of a circle.
00:49So since the radius of a 12 inch pizza is six inches, six squared is 36, multiply that
00:56by pi 3.14 something, something, something, and you get 113 square inches.
01:01If you divide your grams, 355 grams by your square inches, 113 square inches, you get
01:083.1 grams per square inch.
01:13So now let's say I decide I want to make an 18 inch pizza.
01:17How much dough do I need?
01:18You don't need to just guess.
01:19You can say, well, that pizza is 18 inches in diameter, which means the radius is nine
01:25inches.
01:26Nine squared times pi is 254 square inches.
01:31Now I multiply that number by my grams per square inch, 3.1, 254 square inches by 3.1
01:40grams per square inch says that a 788 gram dough ball will make the same proportion pizza
01:47at 18 inches as a 355 gram dough ball will make at 12 inches.
01:52I know what you're thinking.
01:54You're saying, Scott, but I want to make a square pizza.
01:57Well, I got good news.
01:58The math's even easier.
01:59You take your square pan.
02:01It's 12 inches by 16.
02:02Good news.
02:03Length times width, 12 by 16 gives you your surface area of the square pan.
02:09You multiply that by whatever your grams per square inch is.
02:12And that's how big your dough ball should be.
02:14And if you don't like 3.1 grams per square inch for a New York style pizza, you can change
02:19it.
02:20Try it at 2.5 grams per square inch.
02:23Try it at four grams per square inch.
02:25Either way, you'll find the truth for yourself and your own destiny.
02:30Don't trust me.
02:31Trust all of us here at Pizza University.