Pizza Nerd
Andrew Savoie
Pizza Nerd™ — The Dough Calculator That Teaches Stop guessing. Start making incredible pizza at home. Pizza Nerd is more than a calculator — it is your personal pizza coach. Every recipe comes with dynamic, science-backed instructions that adapt to your kitchen temperature, fermentation length, oven type, and yeast choice. Whether you are 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, Contemporary Neapolitan - New York, New Haven, Grandma - Detroit, Sicilian, Chicago Deep Dish, Chicago Thin - Roman al Taglio, Pizza alla Pala - Focaccia, California, Montreal - Flammkuchen, Coca, Lahmacun BAKER'S MATH, NO MATH HEADACHES - True baker's percentages — every ingredient to the gram - Final Dough Temperature (FDT) water-temp calculator - Power-curve yeast model recalibrated on real PizzApp data - Rapid preset — true 2-hour emergency pizza (1h bulk + 1h proof) - Measurement Guide — no scale? We convert grams to teaspoons - Total flour weight readout for fast recipe comparison GLOBAL FLOUR DATABASE (100+ FLOURS) - Italian Caputo, Le 5 Stagioni, Petra, Polselli, Mulino Marino - American King Arthur, Bob's Red Mill, Central Milling - Canadian Robin Hood, Five Roses, Anita's - French T45/T55/T65, Spanish, German, UK, Australian - 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) Running a 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 by a pizza-obsessed home baker, refined by a community of testers around the world. No ads. No tracking. Just dough.