About Pandough

The story behind the obsession

Hi, I'm Mike. By day I design and build digital products. After hours, I'm a pizza nerd.

It all started when I followed a recipe straight from a calculator and pulled a torn, ragged base out of the oven. The recipe wasn't wrong. My flour was just too weak.

Modern flour is documented like never before, and the same specs now show up on bags from Naples to Kraków to Tokyo. The knowledge exists. It's just scattered across PDFs, forums, and bakers' heads, in a dozen languages. So I set out to pool it: knowledge and recipes from books, experience from forums, flour specs, and build from all of it a single crowd-sourced source of truth for pizza and bread.

What Pandough actually is

Pandough is a dough manager built on the flour-first method (Farina Prima), not just a calculator. Most tools work the other way around, recipe-first: they hand you a formula and treat flour as a detail you can swap later. Pandough starts from the flour. Pick a real one, and it builds the whole bake around how that flour behaves: hydration, yeast, fermentation time, and a proofing schedule that fits your kitchen.

With visual tools like the effective fermentation graph, an AI assistant backed by a library of 180+ articles, and step-by-step instructions, Pandough aims to be your companion on the way to baking better and better.

Crowd-sourced, and built to stay honest

Every time you use the app, the flour, schedule, and oven engines learn from real bakes, so the guidance keeps improving for everyone.

I built this for myself first. No ads, no selling your data. The only data Pandough collects is what it needs to improve the engines and the interface. It's a pizza-nerd tool, built by a pizza nerd.

Partners

To the owners of pizza and baking communities: I invite you to the Partners program. Build a fully customized tool with your own logo, for your own community. Your users get a great tool at a discount, and you get a steady, passive source of income.

Going PRO

Pandough is free for casual baking, and it stays that way: the full flour database, the calculator, and one active bake at a time. No ads, no catch.

Paid subscriptions are what let the app stay free and ad-free for everyone, and they also let us reward the partners and creators who publish content.

Join the community

Questions, an idea, a bug? Join us on Reddit or Facebook, the best places to hang out with fellow Pandough nerds.

Pandough is designed and built with ❤️ by Mike Piechota.