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Sauce and cheese by pizza area
Cheese and sauce scale with the square of the diameter. The base is Serious Eats’ hacker-free pizza: 2 tablespoons of sauce and 2 ounces of cheese on one 10-inch pizza. The recipe’s 12 ounces of cheese are split across 6 pizzas.
Quick answer. 6 pizzas at 10 inches, the Serious Eats yield: 2 tablespoons of sauce and 2 oz of cheese on each pizza. The batch is 12 tablespoons and 12 oz of cheese. That page does not print a sauce weight in grams, so grams stay out until you type one.
Batch
2 oz cheese each · 2 Tbsp sauce each
| Area scale | 1× the 10-inch base |
|---|---|
| Cheese | 2 oz (57 g) each · 12 oz batch |
| Sauce | 2 Tbsp each · 12 Tbsp batch |
| Sauce weight | Not entered |
Cheese starts at 2 ounces and sauce at 2 tablespoons on a 10-inch pizza. Grams of sauce appear only when you type a weight for that 10-inch pizza.
How the scale is applied
Area scale is (diameter ÷ 10) squared. At 10 inches the scale is 1, so the result matches the recipe: 2 tablespoons and 2 ounces each. A wider pizza gets more topping because the area grew, not because a second recipe was consulted. The rim is not subtracted. The recipe does not print a sauced diameter inside the crust.
A sauce weight in grams is not on that page. If you type one, it is your estimate for a single 10-inch pizza, then scaled by the same area factor and multiplied by the batch. Zero means you did not enter a weight.
Questions
- Where does the cheese weight come from?
- Serious Eats’ hacker-free Neapolitan pizza, updated 12 March 2025, divides 12 ounces of cheese across 6 pizzas. That is 2 ounces on one pizza stretched to 10 inches. This page converts that ounce weight to grams and scales it by area.
- Why is sauce shown in tablespoons?
- That recipe says to spread 2 tablespoons of sauce on the 10-inch pizza. It does not print a sauce weight in grams. Tablespoons scale by the same area factor as the cheese.
- What if I type a sauce weight?
- That number is your own estimate for one 10-inch pizza, labelled as an estimate, then scaled by area and multiplied by the number of pizzas. Leave it at 0 when you do not have a gram weight. Zero is not treated as a measured sauce weight.
- How does the area scale work?
- Scale is (your diameter ÷ 10 inches) squared. A 10-inch pizza stays at the published 2 tablespoons and 2 ounces. A pizza with twice the diameter has four times the area, so four times the cheese and four times the sauce.
- Does this include the rim?
- The scale uses the pizza diameter you type. Serious Eats describes the pizza as stretched to 10 inches. The page does not measure a sauced circle inside a rim, because that recipe does not print one.
- Is 2 ounces the cheese for every style?
- It is the cheese that recipe prints for a 10-inch pizza. Other styles use other amounts. Change the diameter and the batch count. The scale still starts from that 10-inch base.
Last reviewed 1 November 2026.
Sources
Cheese and sauce tablespoons are the Serious Eats hacker-free recipe, updated 12 March 2025. A gram weight for sauce is an estimate you type. It is not printed on that page.