Pandough

Preferment Maturity Tracking & Refined Yeast Model

Pandough update highlighting preferment maturity and yeast model improvements
Mike Piechota
January 30, 2026

This release focuses on fermentation quality and decision support, especially for bakers working with poolish or biga.

What's New

  • Preferment maturity states added: young, developing, peak, and over-ripe.
  • Maturity modeling now adapts to temperature.
  • Yeast model recalibrated based on professional baker feedback.
  • Yeast recommendations lowered across schedules for longer traditional fermentation profiles.
  • Expanded multilingual support across product surfaces.

Smaller Improvements

  • Cold-fermentation slider now better accounts for warm phases.
  • Fermentation bar highlighting fixed when switching modes.
  • Language picker and help modal usability improved.
Spiral mixer beside a tablet running Pandough

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Pandough is a dough manager that builds a precise plan around your flour, kitchen, oven and schedule.

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