Pizza

[Shadows]

How do you like yours?

 

[Snowman]

pepperoni, mushroom and Banana Peppers. :hungry:

your making me hungry Shadows, (lol)

 

[yak pac fatal]

plain will do just fine lol

 

[Prize Gotti]

Pepperoni, Spicy Chicken, Jalapeño and Pineapple.

 

[masta247]

Damn I love pizza. I could it it everyday.

My favorite is hawaii and peperoni.

 

[Duke]

The delivery boy is on his way with a mushrooms, peppers, onions, ham and salami specimen.

 

[vg4030]

^^ mmmmm I could go for a salami specimen right now

 

[Flipmo]

The way I like my women, oily and very meaty.

 

[Preach]

Someone is gonna come in here and ruin the thread by saying something stoopid, like "I prefer to have tuna and shrimp on my pizza", or "I take my pizza without cheese" or "with blue cheese", something or other.

Can we let this thread be about, not italian pizza, but the spirit of the modern civilization pizza -> Bread, meat, cheese and FAT.

Vegetarians can make a Veggy-Pizza thread. I don't care what you say, broccoli and cheese isn't pizza. :lol:

Oh. And there's variations. I pick my toppings depending on the meat base. Regular white cheese is assumed in all cases:
* Ham - Red/green/yellow peppers/banana-peppers (whatever that tastes like those shits), tomato chunks, mushrooms,
* Pepperoni - Peppers, extra ham (lawl)
* Minced meat - Peppers, mushrooms, onions, tomato chunks, this is basically my fav. With minced meat and tomato/taco sauce I can put almost whatever on there.
Beef meat - Onions, tomato chunks, ham.

It's just based on what I think goes well together. In the salami vs. pepperoni predicament, I'm going for pepperoni. I don't like salami on pizza. And it's been a bread "spread" for me since I was a kid. It just doesn't belong on a pizza as far as I'm concerned. Pepperoni is nice though, but I don't often enjoy home made pepperoni. Has to be from a resturant (stone oven) or frozen. Home made pizzas are often softer than your typical bought pizza. And to be honest, for all my talks of making pizza, I have not yet attempted (nor mastered) to make a proper italian pizza dough.

When I mention tomato chunks, it's normally part of my own tomato sauce that I make.

 

[Preach]

Yeshua, teach me to make a pizza dough. What's the trick to make it firm like you see on television when they spin the shits up in the air on their fingers? How can I do that?

Edit: Oh darnit, this thread inspired me. Pizza with ham and red peppers coming up!

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Best pizza of my life was from a place just outside Vatican City... You could ask for a specific size you wanted, but yeah they had all these different Veggies on it. Goood stuff. Too bad I'll never taste it again :sad2:

Anyway the usual is a chicken with cream sauce and asparagus + cheese ofcourse. Very tasty, oh and the Supreme minus anchovies is yummo. Being coeliac I dont get the chance to eat it much these days.

 

[2Pax]

Meat Feast - Cheese, tomato, ham, pepperoni, chicken, salami and minced meat, aka heart attack pizza.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

needs to have a dry base (not oily). love it stove-baked.

i like them in differnet styles: love ham and cheese, pepperoni (if not oily), bacon (if white fat removed). dont like pork or beef. i love hawaiian style with ham and pineapple. i love peppers, sweetcorn, olives, jallapenos, chillies.

also like bith "thin and crispy" and "deep pan".


best take-away pizza i've had is from a shop called Dyas (on Dyas avenue). expensive pizza for one being made in a small business. costs almost as much as domino's who are a major franchise compared to them.

 

[Preach]

Anyway the usual is a chicken with cream sauce and asparagus + cheese ofcourse. Very tasty, oh and the Supreme minus anchovies is yummo. Being coeliac I dont get the chance to eat it much these days.

Grrr..

Edit: Oh wait, you said minus the anchovies.. Still don't like the cream sauce bullshit but we're good..

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Grrr..

Edit: Oh wait, you said minus the anchovies.. Still don't like the cream sauce bullshit but we're good..

Yes anchovies dont belong anywhere on a pizza. The cream sauce is good, don't knock it til you've had it.

I've become a fan of the olives on a pizza. I used to hate.

 

[Bender]

Yeshua, teach me to make a pizza dough. What's the trick to make it firm like you see on television when they spin the shits up in the air on their fingers? How can I do that?

lol, you don't need to do any fancy techniques when making dough Preach. those chefs you see spinning dough on their fingertips like its a basketball, they do that as a technique to 'knock back' the dough into a required shape, whereas a rolling pin would as easily achieve the required purpose.

i make dough every day at work, i've found the trick to making the perfect dough is knowing how much water to add to it. don't rely on measurements, i never measure the ammount of water i use. use warm water directly from the hot tap, not hot water, water with a temperature of between 50-60 degrees celcius is perfect. the reason for the temperature is that it helps the yeast 'prove' more in the resting process, creating a better dough. the dough should be as wet as possible without it being sticky to touch! despite what anyone tells you, ALWAYS ADD THE SALT TO YOUR DOUGH LAST, AFTER ADDING THE YEAST AND MIXING, the reason for this is that salt kills the yeast if it comes into direct contact with it, as yeast is a living organism. the salt should be the last ingredient added, but should always be mixed in properly afterwards, this is the same tecnique the french use to make bread dough, although its an italian dish, the french are way ahead when it comes to gastronomical perfection.


i found an interesting video on the making of pizza dough recently when watching episodes of Heston Blumenthal's 'in search of perfection' tv series. Heston owns and runs the Fat Duck restaurant in Berkshire, England. the Fat Duck restaurant has 3 Michelin Stars and is named as the Best Restaurant in the World by Restaurant Magazine.

video of Heston making pizza dough:
don't do as he did though to add the salt before the yeast

 

[Preach]

i'm not sure i understand how to properly mix the salt in with the dough after the dough is basically firm. that's what you mean right? put flour, yeast, oil, water, then salt at the end?

 

[Rukas]

Depends on where I eat.
Dominos would be cheese crust cheese lovers with sundried tomatoes and mushroom.

Gourmet pizza joints, Id get like a baby spinach, mozzarella, sundried tomato, olive, mushroom, artichoke gourmet vegetarian deal with three types of cheese and feta cheese.

Sometimes I like a mozzarella, potato and caramelized onion pizza.

Always thin or stuffed crust though, I hate thick crust.

 

[Rukas]

Best pizza of my life was from a place just outside Vatican City... You could ask for a specific size you wanted, but yeah they had all these different Veggies on it. Goood stuff. Too bad I'll never taste it again :sad2:

I've probably been there.

 

[Casey]

Quorn pieces, mozzerella, green peppers, red peppers, chillies, SHITLOADS of jalapenos (enough to make you regret it the next morning), onions, sweetcorn, stuffed crust.

Sandeep, if you think Dyas is good, I'll get you the number of Fresh Bite Pizza on Soho Road. It is fucking divine. It'll ruin you for other fast food places, it's THAT good. Me and my wife and my homies stopped getting takeout from anywhere else after we discovered that place. Their pizza is among the best I have had anywhere in the world.