One more thing. If you find that you prefer a specific amount of cheese on a specific size pizza (that’s different than the numbers I’ve shared), let me know the pizza size and cheese weight. If you do, I’ll arrange my spreadsheet so it reveals equivalent cheese weights for other sizes, then share the answers with you. It wouldn’t really be difficult to do this on your own, but it’s much easier with my spreadsheet because once I figure out the amount of cheese per square inch, all I have to do is enter a different pizza size in the appropriate cell to get a very realistic estimate for any other size.
This is much easier to do with my spreadsheet than it would be with a calculator because you have to account for things like how thick the crust is (in theory). My spreadsheet already does that. For example, my most recent (or best-yet) “blueprint” includes a bottom/side actual crust thickness of 1/4", which means the cheese occupies an area of half an inch less than the diameter of the pizza.
This may not translate perfectly from one size to another, though, because I’m not absolutely sure the crust really is 1/4" thick. I suspect it’s probably a little thicker than that, at least when I make it. But I haven’t made one in a year, so I’m not sure. This much is true: If my spreadsheet has the correct numbers entered into it, it will give the correct answers.
