PizzaNerd

🍕 Pizza Nerd - The Dough Calculator That Teaches

Stop guessing. Start making incredible pizza at home. For less than a slice, master the art and science of pizza dough.

Pizza Nerd isn't just a calculator — it's a coach. Every recipe comes with dynamic, science-backed instructions that adapt to your kitchen temperature, fermentation length, oven type, and yeast choice. Whether you're chasing a leoparded Neapolitan crown or a crispy Detroit corner, Pizza Nerd gets the dough right the first time.


🍕 16 AUTHENTIC PIZZA STYLES
Each style is calibrated by professional bakers — not generic templates.
• Neapolitan — soft, charred, leopard-spotted classic
• New York — foldable, structured, irresistible
• New Haven — thin, crisp, charred apizza
• Detroit — crispy frico edges, airy crumb
• Chicago Deep Dish & Chicago Thin
• Sicilian & Grandma — focaccia-cousin pan styles
• Roman al Taglio & Pizza alla Pala — long-fermented Roman classics
• Focaccia — pillowy and dimpled
• California — wood-fired, ingredient-driven
• Montreal — Quebec's underrated regional gem
• Flammkuchen, Coca, Lahmacun — European cousins worth knowing


🧪 BAKER'S MATH, NO MATH HEADACHES
True baker's percentages under the hood — every ingredient calculated to the gram.
• Adjusts for hydration, salt, oil, sugar, preferments
• Final Dough Temperature (FDT) water-temp calculator
• Power-curve yeast model recalibrated on real PizzApp data
• NEW Rapid preset — true 2-hour emergency pizza (1h bulk + 1h proof)
• NEW Measurement Guide — no scale? We'll convert grams to teaspoons
• Total flour weight readout for fast recipe comparison


🌍 GLOBAL FLOUR DATABASE (100+ FLOURS)
Find your real flour — not a generic "00".
• Italian Caputo, Le 5 Stagioni, Petra, Polselli, Mulino Marino
• American King Arthur, Bob's Red Mill, Central Milling, Bay State Milling
• Canadian Robin Hood, Five Roses, Anita's
• French T45/T55/T65, Spanish, German, UK strong bread, Australian, and more
• Smart equivalents — swap flours across regions with confidence


⏱️ STAGE TIMER & QUICK SETS
• Live fermentation progress with stage-by-stage guidance
• Quick Sets for one-tap dough setups (4 balls / 6 balls / party batch)
• Save and reload your favourite recipes


📓 BAKE LOG (Plus)
Track every bake — flour, hydration, ferment time, results, photos, lessons. Build your personal pizza playbook.


💰 COST CALCULATOR (Pro)
Run a pizza pop-up or thinking about going pro? See the per-pie cost of flour, yeast, salt, oil, sauce, cheese, and toppings. Know your margins before you serve.


🎓 LEARN
In-app articles on hydration, autolyse, cold ferment, oven hot spots, sauce balance, dough temperature — written for nerds who want to know why, not just what.


💎 FREE, PLUS & PRO
• Free — full calculator, all 16 styles, dynamic instructions, flour database
• Plus — Bake Log, recipe library, advanced ferment tools
• Pro — Cost Calculator and pop-up tools (built for serious home bakers and side-hustle pizzaiolos)


Built by a pizza-obsessed home baker, refined by a community of testers around the world. No ads. No tracking. Just dough.

Bake nerdy. 🍕