Your Pizza Order

[Umbran]

He is correct.

Eh. I mean, yes, deep dish pizza, while often quite tasty, has wandered far from the original culinary branch.

However, using an iron skillet is a very good way for a home cook to make a Sicilian pizza.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Eh. I mean, yes, deep dish pizza, while often quite tasty, has wandered far from the original culinary branch.

However, using an iron skillet is a very good way for a home cook to make a Sicilian pizza.

You have no soul!!!!

 

[Umbran]

You have no soul!!!!

I have several, right here in jars on my shelf, thank you very much.

More importantly, I also have some cooking chops. Sicilian pie is typically done in a thinner pan, but in a commercial oven several hundred degrees hotter than you can reach in a home appliance. The iron skillet's heat transfer properties help make up for that difference.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

I have several, right here in jars on my shelf, thank you very much.

More importantly, I also have some cooking chops. Sicilian pie is typically done in a thinner pan, but in a commercial oven several hundred degrees hotter than you can reach in a home appliance. The iron skillet's heat transfer properties help make up for that difference.

Your blasphemous skillet makes pies of lies! Err... lie pies. Plies!!!!

 

[el-remmen]

I am not gonna read this whole thread, but the problem with the opening scenario is that I'd never agree to it because even though I am fairly open about pizza toppings (but NO OLIVES!) I would not want to force anyone to eat a pizza they don't like or not eat at all. When ordering pizza for a group you either order multiple pizzas or order the lowest common denominator.

But if it was just me and my wife ordering? Ham, Pineapple, and Banana Peppers.

 

[Bedrockgames]

He is correct.

I have come to soften my position on deep dish. Where I we had a similar issue where you can only get greek style pizza (which isn't deep dish but is closer in terms of crust thickness, buttery-ness and so forth. But it is probably more like a Pizza Hut pizza (but much higher quality). The cheese blend is also very different. If you grew up on italian thin slice, which is what we mostly used to have around here, then the greek style pizza can take getting used to. The problem was people were split 50-50 on them by the time I went to high school (and the Italian places were become a lot less common). It took getting a delivery job at a greek place to learn to appreciate the style (I also realized toppings matter a lot more on a thicker pizza like that----and for greek I noticed the guys who worked there put fresh tomato slices, feta and red onion on it after it was cooked and it tasted amazing. The thin italian style is still my favorite but I like greek pizza and I've learned to even enjoy deep dish (it is just a very different experience is all)

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

I have come to soften my position on deep dish.

At what age did you suffer a traumatic taste injury?

Where I we had a similar issue where you can only get greek style pizza (which isn't deep dish but is closer in terms of crust thickness, buttery-ness and so forth. But it is probably more like a Pizza Hut pizza (but much higher quality).

Like Pizza hut? You mean the pizza that every time someone took a bite, OPEC cut back on production because there was a sudden influx of excess oil in the world?

The cheese blend is also very different. If you grew up on italian thin slice, which is what we mostly used to have around here, then the greek style pizza can take getting used to. The problem was people were split 50-50 on them by the time I went to high school (and the Italian places were become a lot less common). It took getting a delivery job at a greek place to learn to appreciate the style (I also realized toppings matter a lot more on a thicker pizza like that----and for greek I noticed the guys who worked there put fresh tomato slices, feta and red onion on it after it was cooked and it tasted amazing. The thin italian style is still my favorite but I like greek pizza and I've learned to even enjoy deep dish (it is just a very different experience is all)

It sounds like you all drove the Italian places away with your horrible taste and vulgar marinara bread bowl soups.

 

[Nikosandros]

I love American pizza, but I woundn't know where to get it here in Rome. Typical Italian pizzas are typically "fixed", i.e. you choose a kind (such as "margherita", "quattro formaggi", "capricciosa") and you normally don't customize the toppings.

 

[Bedrockgames]

I love American pizza, but I woundn't know where to get it here in Rome. Typical Italian pizzas are typically "fixed", i.e. you choose a kind (such as "margherita", "quattro formaggi", "capricciosa") and you normally don't customize the toppings.

I was in Italy once and the pizza and food was the best I’ve ever had anywhere (grew up in Italian American food and went to Venice for two weeks). Really would have loved to see both Rome and Abruzzo as well

 

[Bedrockgames]

At what age did you suffer a traumatic taste injury?

I was eight. My aunt said she was making delicious steaks. We waited for an hour in anticipation as she made the preparations. When it was served we chowed down without a thought, eager for well seasoned rib eyes cooked to medium rare perfect. But we only tasted the sharp bloody copper flavor of liver. Four of us sat down for dinner that night. When it was over there were only three of us. What was left of us

Like Pizza hut? You mean the pizza that every time someone took a bite, OPEC cut back on production because there was a sudden influx of excess oil in the world?

Without the oil it takes two root beers to wash down. Trust me, you don’t want it with less oil

It sounds like you all drove the Italian places away with your horrible taste and vulgar marinara bread bowl soups.

I draw the line at bread bowl soup accusations sir or madame (or mr or Ms. Squirrel if you prefer). Bread bowls are the culinary abomination of our age. The only thing worse than a bread bowl soup is the unfathomable pasta bread bowl.