
Dough Lab
Pan Pizza Dough Hydration: Ratios That Actually Add Up
Pan-pizza dough hydration is the water weight divided by the flour weight, multiplied by 100.
Baker’s percentage puts flour at 100 percent and expresses every other ingredient against it. That makes a dough scalable without converting dinner into algebra theatre. Hydration predicts handling, not destiny. Flour, fermentation, mixing, temperature, and oil still get votes.

Pan-pizza dough hydration is the water weight divided by the flour weight, multiplied by 100.