Calculating baker's percentages
Luigi Di Domenico introduces the baker's percentage method to help you scale and adapt pizza recipes with precision.
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Lesson details
Struggling to scale your dough recipe or read inconsistent measurements? There's a smarter way to work.
In this online lesson, Luigi Di Domenico explains how to use the baker's percentage system - a simple, universal formula used by professional bakers and chefs to standardize recipes of any size. Instead of memorizing exact gram amounts, you'll understand how to work with ingredient ratios, making it easy to adjust recipes whether you're prepping one pizza or one hundred.
What you'll learn in this lesson, Calculating baker's percentages
- How to use the baker's percentage formula to calculate ingredient ratios
- Why flour is always 100%, and how to scale other ingredients accordingly
- How to quickly scale recipes to any dough weight
Instructor

An Italian master pizza maker and gastronomic consultant; Luigi began his training near Naples. Continued in Greece, then moved to Spain and it is in Barcelona where he began to gain experience. Throughout his career, he worked alongside renowned...
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