Pizza on your schedule, with the dough planned backwards from the oven.
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A dough planner that works backwards from when you want to cook.
It's a bit of a challenge, planning dough backwards. You know what time you want to eat. You know roughly what sort of dough you want to make, but most recipes and dough calculators make you work the other way around: start now, follow the steps, and eventually you'll end up with dough that's ready at some point in the future.
So I made this planner to do the obvious instead. Tell it when you feel like eating, and it works backwards from there, figuring out when everything needs to happen, and giving you all the recipe details along the way.
It also knows that you won't always be available. You might be asleep, at work, or just not particularly interested in dealing with dough at 11pm. You can block out those times and it'll move the process around, so the bits that actually need you to do something happen when you're available.
The app comes with a few basic (or even pretty decent) methods, and an editor allowing you to make your own. The sections below cover some of the critical, or slightly less obvious features. I hope that anything else you'll be able to figure out as you go along!
The bar under the start time is the whole plan from the first step to the oven, drawn to scale.
Hover over any part of the bar for the step, its length and when it starts. On a phone, slide a finger along it.
When you're ready to begin, press Start! in the top card. The settings column goes away and the page shows only what you need to make the dough. If you need to tweak something, like the hydration or the salt, press Adjust plan to bring everything back.
Add the hours you can't do anything, and tick the days they apply to. Use this period switches one off without deleting it.
It works back from the oven time. If a hands-on step would land in an away period, it moves to the latest free time before it, and the rest that follows is made longer to fill the gap. Rests are only ever lengthened, never shortened, so the method's times are a minimum. The extra time shows striped on the bar and is noted on the step.
A method is the list of steps and times the planner follows, so it's worth setting up your own.
If cloud sync is switched on for this copy of KneadBy, the file icon at the top right has a Sign in with Google button. Signing in is optional. Once you're in, your methods, away periods and settings are kept in your own account and match on every device you sign in on.
Everything is kept in your browser. The file icon at the top right can also save it all as a file, to back it up, move it between devices or share it.