Ready Made Pizza Dough

Ready-made pizza dough balls have made significant strides in quality recently, and we take a lot of care to ensure our pizza doughs are the best you will find. Our pizza dough is available in a range of sizes, with the most popular being our 250g pizza dough balls that make great 10 – 12” pizza.

Wondering where to buy pizza dough or want to go large? Our 340g is the perfect dough ball size to maximise the space in a larger pizza oven, such as the Ooni 16” or Cozze 17” for example.

A word on pizza dough hydration. Our doughs are around 60% hydration, which gives you great structure, without being too awkward to handle. Very high hydration pizza dough can give amazing results but can be tricky to handle, especially if you are new to the game, and you will need to take more care to prevent sticking etc. Virtue dough continues to receive praise from all quarters, being beautiful in taste and so easy to use.

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Questions on Our Sourdough Pizza Dough Answered!

Due to the slow, natural fermentation, sourdough is intrinsically better for your gut health than regular yeast, aiding digestion with the natural microbes.

Due to the slow, natural fermentation, sourdough is intrinsically better for your gut health than regular yeast, aiding digestion with the natural microbes.

True sourdough pizza dough only used a live sourdough starter, instead of (or as well as) regular yeast as its form of leavening (rise). It is also possible to add dried sourdough powder to standard yeast to improve flavour. Sourdough pizza dough will need a longer prove time, depending on the recipe, but it’s well worth the extra time, as our 5* reviews will tell you.

Yes, any pizza dough can be frozen, before the “second fermentation” takes place. Our pizza doughs are frozen immediately from the bulk mix and wrapped to prevent freezer burn. They will generally keep very well for up to 12 months when frozen in this way. If your pizza dough has thawed, but not yet started to prove – puffing up with air bubbles appearing in the dough, you can even re-freeze without significantly impacting the quality of the dough.

When stored correctly, sourdough pizza dough will keep for at least 3 days in a fridge and up to 12 months frozen. Keeping it in the fridge for a few days leads to “cold fermentation” and the longer this is, the better the results will be! We have kept some of our sourdoughs for a week in the fridge, with excellent results.

This depends on the ambient temperature, and the type of dough you are using, but as a rule you should keep it chilled overnight, or it will likely over-prove. The ideal method is to thaw in a sealed container overnight (or up to 3 days) in the fridge and then remove in time to reach room temperature before you want to cook. If you have forgotten to thaw overnight in this way, it is still possible to thaw and prove at ambient temperature, this will take around 6-12 hours depending on how warm the area is and which dough you are using.

Yes, like all leavened products, sourdough pizza dough will over-prove if left too long at room temperature. If the dough is over-proved it will become very hard to work with, leading to tearing and sticking when you try to work with it. Depending on the type of dough it may also not puff up properly when cooking.

The ideal method is to thaw in a sealed container overnight in the fridge and then remove in time to reach room temperature before you want to cook.
If you have forgotten to thaw overnight, it is still possible to thaw and prove at ambient temperature, this will take around 6-12 hours depending on how warm the area is and which dough you are using.
Top Tip! For even better results, thanks to the cold fermentation process, allow your frozen sourdough pizza dough balls to thaw slowly in the fridge for up to three days.

You should not “knead” our ready-made pizza dough products. This will lead to tightening the gluten and making it very hard to stretch.

If required, our pizza dough balls can be re-shaped with floured or oiled hands, by gently tucking the sides under itself, using both your hands, to create a neat ball. Another method is to gently draw them across a non-floured worktop with a cupped hand and the friction of the worktop will tighten the dough into a ball. Do not overwork the dough, this will lead to tightening the gluten and making it very hard to stretch. Allow the dough plenty of time to relax and double in size again before stretching.

Our sourdough pizza dough is not gluten-free.

The most likely reason is that the dough is over-proved. However, you will always need to use a good dusting of flour when working with the dough to prevent your hands from sticking to it.

If the dough has over proved, then give it a good dusting of flour and do your best to tuck it back into a neat ball. Allow plenty of time for the gluten to relax and the dough to double in size again, before trying to stretch.

Our ready-made pizza dough is perfect for all pizza ovens including wood and gas-fired – Ooni, Gozney, Deli Vita, Clementi, Alfa Forni and Igneus to name but a few.

It is also excellent when cooked on a kitchen stove top using the frying-pan method or in commercial electric ovens such as Pizza Master or Merrychef.

We have personally cooked our pizza dough in Ooni, Gozney, and Cozze ovens as well as in a commercial traditional wood-fired brick pizza oven.

But, it’s not limited to what we have done! Feel free to cook your Virtue pizza dough on any of the following:

Wood Fired Pizza ovens from well-known brands such as Ooni, Gozney, DeliVita, Clementi, Alfa Forni and Igneus to name a few.

Gas Fired pizza ovens from Ooni, Cozze, Gozney or DeliVita.

Traditional clay or brick wood-fired pizza ovens.

Electric Pizza ovens like the Sage Smart Oven Pizzaiolo, Pizza Master and Merrychef.

This is just a list of popular brands. If your pizza oven is not listed, you can still cook our pizzas!

Happy Cooking!

Yes certainly! We are a leading family-run artisan supplier of sourdough pizza dough delivering all over the UK.

Questions on Our Gluten Free Pizza Dough Answered!

Virtue is a great place to buy ready-made gluten-free pizza dough. We offer a 250g dough ball that makes a 10” pizza.

Gluten-free pizza dough is a pizza dough that is suitable for those who suffer from coeliac disease, or who are gluten intolerant. Gluten-free pizza dough will be more like pastry dough to use, as there is no gluten to give it elasticity. It, therefore, requires a different technique to stretch and cook gluten-free pizza.

Virtue Gluten-free pizza dough is made predominantly from water and rice flour, a number of other ingredients, including sunflower oil to help bind it together and yeast. Our gluten-free dough does not contain any egg.

Virtue gluten-free pizza dough contains 39.0g of carbohydrate per 100g, so is unlikely to work for a Keto or other low-carb style diet.

No, Virtue Gluten-free pizza dough contains 39.0g of carbohydrate per 100g.

Yes, Virtue gluten-free dough is suitable for vegans.

Virtue gluten-free pizza dough has been called “the best” by some of our customers, with a nice texture and taste. It is much more fragile than regular pizza dough and therefore requires a different technique to stretch and cook.

Virtue gluten-free pizza dough will rise a little while proving and will puff up a little as it cooks, but to a lesser extent than our sourdoughs.

Our gluten-free dough does not contain any egg.

Our gluten-free dough has slightly higher calories than our sourdough, at 238 calories per 100g.

Yes, our gluten-free dough contains regular yeast.

Our ready-made pizza dough is perfect for all pizza ovens including wood and gas-fired – Ooni, Gozney, Deli Vita, Clementi, Alfa Forni and Igneus to name but a few.

It is also excellent when cooked on a kitchen stove top using the frying-pan method or in commercial electric ovens such as Pizza Master or Merrychef.

We have personally cooked our pizza dough in Ooni, Gozney, and Cozze ovens as well as in a commercial traditional wood-fired brick pizza oven.

But, it’s not limited to what we have done! Feel free to cook your Virtue pizza dough on any of the following:

Wood Fired Pizza ovens from well-known brands such as Ooni, Gozney, DeliVita, Clementi, Alfa Forni and Igneus to name a few.

Gas Fired pizza ovens from Ooni, Cozze, Gozney or DeliVita.

Traditional clay or brick wood-fired pizza ovens.

Electric Pizza ovens like the Sage Smart Oven Pizzaiolo, Pizza Master and Merrychef.

This is just a list of popular brands. If your pizza oven is not listed, you can still cook our pizzas!

Happy Cooking!