Same-Day Pizza Dough Schedule

The 1-Hour Cast Iron Pan Pizza is a same-day pizza in the PieForge cookbook: 82 minutes from mixing the dough to serving, with no fridge time. For dinner at 7:00 PM, mix the dough at 5:38 PM, and turn the oven on at the same time.

Total time: 82 minutes (1 hour 22 minutes)
Pizza in the oven: 26 minutes before you eat
Cold ferment: None

The full schedule for dinner at 7:00 PM

Here is the whole schedule for dinner at 7:00 PM, using the offsets the app uses for one pizza. The quick sauce is blended while the dough rests.

1-Hour Cast Iron Pan Pizza, timed for a 7:00 PM dinner
Time Step
Preheat oven
Mix dough 5 minutes
Start mixer (initial mix) 1 minute
Add oil & complete mix 5 minutes
Rest dough 30 minutes
Blend quick sauce 5 minutesQuick Pizza Sauce
Assemble pizza 15 minutes
Bake pizza (IN) 8 minutes
Turn pizza & finish bake 8 minutes
Cool in pan 3 minutes
De-pan, slice on cardboard & cool 7 minutes
Dinner is served.

When to start for other dinner times

The steps are the same, moved earlier or later: the dough is always mixed 82 minutes before you eat.

Start times for 1-Hour Cast Iron Pan Pizza, by dinner time
Dinner at Start: mix the dough and turn the oven on Put the dough in the pan and top it Pizza goes in the oven

Good to know

  • The mixing and the oven preheat start at the same moment: the app plans them together, and some ovens take longer to heat.
  • The last step is slicing the pizza and letting it cool for 7 minutes before you serve it.

The full 1-Hour Cast Iron Pan Pizza recipe has the ingredients by weight and every direction.

Let PieForge Count Backward

Pick the time you want to eat and the planner shows every step on your own clock. PieForge sounds an alarm for each one. Planning several pizzas in one cook is part of PieForge Pro.