README

Pizza Dough Calculator

A simple desktop application to calculate pizza dough ingredients, built with Lazarus (FreePascal).

This tool helps you prepare your dough easily by calculating the right quantities of:

• Flour
• Water
• Salt
• Yeast

based on your recipe parameters.

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✨ Features

• Calculate dough for any number of pizzas
• Adjustable dough weight per pizza
• Hydration control (% of water)
• Salt percentage
• Fermentation time and temperature
• Automatic yeast calculation
• Simple and intuitive interface

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🧮 Yeast Calculation

The yeast amount is automatically calculated based on:

• fermentation duration
• temperature
• hydration
• salt

The goal is to provide realistic and practical values for home pizza making.

The result is given in fresh yeast (grams).

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🖥️ Screenshot

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🚀 How to use

1. Enter:
   • number of pizzas
   • dough weight
   • hydration (%)
   • salt (%)
   • fermentation time
   • temperature
2. Click calculate
3. The application will display all ingredient quantities

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📦 Requirements

• Linux / Windows
• Lazarus / FreePascal (for building from source)

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPLv3).

You are free to:

• use
• modify
• share

as long as you keep the same license.

A full copy of the license is provided in the LICENSE file.

👉 Full license text:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt

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🙏 Credits

This project is inspired by community work around pizza dough calculation.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

Fermentation is a complex process.
This tool provides estimates — adjust according to your experience and environment.