The bench · Dough mixes
Pizza dough mixes, compared
Weighed and blended for you; you add water and time. The middle rung between buying flour and buying dough. A mix sits between flour and ready-made on both price and effort. Our cost calculator prices the whole ladder, delivery included.
A dough mix removes the weighing and the recipe but leaves you the ferment and the stretch. It costs more than flour and less than ready-made dough, and keeps in a cupboard rather than a freezer. Five mixes here run from 70p to £2.00 a ball, and the ingredient list is what separates them: two of the five are three ingredients and nothing else, one is eight with an improver and an emulsifier, and one is the cheapest gluten-free pizza anywhere on this site.
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| Great Balls of Flour Pizza Dough Mix (opens the seller’s site in a new tab)MX-01 | 6 dough balls | £6.50 | £1.08 | Dry mix · add water |
No declared additives Ingredients and ratingsOriginal: Wheat Flour (Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Salt, Dried Yeast. Three ingredients and nothing else — no improver, no emulsifier. Sold as a tube in original Neapolitan or sourdough. Proof in six hours or cold-ferment in the fridge. At £1.08 a ball it is barely half the price of the same company’s ready-made dough at £2.00. Their listing also states the mix is "delivered frozen", which reads like copy carried over from the dough; we have asked. Customer ratings — not ours checked September 2026
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| Gozney Classic Pizza Dough Mix (opens the seller’s site in a new tab)MX-02 | 4 balls of 270–277g 4 × 12″ pizzas |
£7.99 | £2.00 | Dry mix · add 430g water |
3 declared additives Ingredients and ratingsPizza mix (Wheat Flour (with Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamine), Dried sourdough fermented from Wheat, Salt, Pregelatinized Wheat flour, deactivated yeast, Flour Improver E300). Yeast sachet (Active Yeast, Emulsifier: Sorbitan Monostearate E491). Yeast sachet included; you add 430g of room-temperature water. Six ingredients in the mix plus two in the sachet — pregelatinized flour for water absorption, ascorbic acid as a flour improver, and an emulsifier in the yeast. Twice the price per ball of the Great Balls of Flour mix. Customer ratings — not ours checked September 2026
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| Ooni Neapolitan Pizza Dough Mix (opens the seller’s site in a new tab)MX-03 | 4 × 250g balls 725g pack |
£4.95 Ooni · £5.00 Waitrose | £1.24 | Dry mix · semolina sachet |
No declared additives Ingredients and ratingsDough mix: Italian 00 Flour (Wheatflour), Sea Salt, Active Dry Yeast. Three ingredients, plus a separate semolina sachet for dusting the peel. No improver, no emulsifier, no deactivated yeast. Against the Gozney mix above: half the price a ball, three ingredients rather than eight. Customer ratings — not ours checked September 2026
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| Waitrose Pizza Mix with Semolina (opens the seller’s site in a new tab)MX-04 | 2 bases · 12″ 500g pack |
£1.40 Waitrose | £0.70 | Dry mix · add water |
1 declared additive Ingredients and ratingsWheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, folic acid, iron, niacin, thiamin), wheat semolina, sugar, dried yeast, salt. Five ingredients, live yeast, and 70p a base — the cheapest route to a pizza anywhere on this site. Pack states two 12″ bases. Customer ratings — not ours checked September 2026
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| FREEE Gluten Free Pizza Base Mix (opens the seller’s site in a new tab)MX-05 | 2 medium or 4 small 350g pack |
£2.10 Ocado · was £2.30 | £1.05 | Gluten free · dry mix |
3 declared additives Ingredients and ratingsBrown Rice Flour, Potato Starch, Chickpea Flour, Tapioca Starch, Maize Flour, Psyllium Husk Powder, Dried Rice Syrup, Yeast, Salt, Thickener (Xanthan Gum), Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid). Carries the Crossed Grain symbol (GB-173-063) and a KLBD Parve certification. At £1.05 a medium base this is the cheapest gluten-free pizza on the site — ready-made gluten-free bases start at £1.78. Customer ratings — not ours checked September 2026
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Finding 004 · Mixes
Three ingredients or eight, for the same job.
The Great Balls of Flour mix is flour, salt and yeast. The Gozney mix adds pregelatinized wheat flour, deactivated yeast and ascorbic acid as a flour improver, with an emulsifier in the yeast sachet — eight declared components against three.
Both make a dough ball you prove yourself. One costs £1.08 a ball, the other £2.00. The pattern across this whole site holds here too: the more the product does for you, the longer the declaration gets.
Still to add. Supermarket bread-and-pizza mixes and gluten-free mixes belong on this table — Ocado and Tesco both block automated reading of their search pages, so those need checking by hand rather than guessing. If you know of a mix we have missed, tell us and we will price it.
Common questions about pizza dough mixes
Is a pizza dough mix worth it compared with flour?
It sits between the two on price and effort. The five mixes here run from 70p to £2.00 a ball, against about 30p for flour, water and yeast bought separately and £1.20 upwards for ready-made dough. You are paying for the yeast being measured for you and for a cupboard shelf life instead of a freezer. If you already keep yeast in, the saving over flour is small; if you do not, a mix removes the one ingredient most people do not have.
What is actually in a pizza dough mix?
It varies far more than the shelf suggests. Two of the mixes here are three ingredients and nothing else — flour, salt, dried yeast. One is eight ingredients including an improver and an emulsifier. Neither is unsafe and both make a pizza, but they are not the same product, and only the declaration tells you which one you are buying. Every mix on this page has its full declaration quoted above.