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dough doctor

with TOM LEHMANN

LOADED QUESTIONS

What is dough loading?
A: Dough loading is really just another
way of saying "X" amount of dough per square
inch of surface area. We calculate the dough
loading by dividing the weight of a dough ball
used to make a specific size pizza and dividing
that weight by the surface area of that pizza.
Surface area of a round pizza is calculated by the
formula Pi (roughly 3.14) X R (radius) Squared.
For a square or rectangular shaped pizza it is L
(length) X W (width). For example, if 10 ounces
of dough were used to make a 12-inch round
pizza, the math would look like this: 3.14 X 36
2 6 / P I Z Z AT O D AY. C O M / N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 6

The dough doctor dishes on
dough loading and oil absorption

= 113-square inches (rounded off ). 10 ounces
divided by 113 = 0.088 ounces of dough per
square inch of calculated surface area, so the
dough loading in this case would be 0.088.
How it's used is pretty straight forward, but
first it must be understood that dough loading is
just a tool that we can use to approximate dough
weights for different size pizzas (as well as sauce
and cheese weight, too). We know that we are
using 10 ounces of dough to make a 12-inch
round pizza, so how much dough should we be
using to make a 14-inch and a 16-inch pizza?
First we need to calculate the surface area of the
14- and 16-inch pizzas. 3.14 X 49 = 153.86 (call

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Pizza Today - November 2016
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Contents
Contributors
Expo Spotlight
Interact
Conversation
Man on the Street
Respecting the Craft
On Tap
Destinations
Dough Doctor
International Pizza Expo
2016 Top 100 Pizza Chains
Wicked Awesome
Product Showcase
Pizza Today Yellow Pages
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Reader’s Resource
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