Personally, I’m partial to a thin crust cheese pizza folded and dipped into either hot sauce or ranch. But I also enjoy modest amounts of meat, greens and pineapple.
I love pizza of all shapes sizes and toppings, but if you want to know my favorite “you can only have this from now on” pizza, imma be a basic assed NY style pepperoni pizza bitch…
Facts. A pepperoni slice is what I judge a pizza place by. If you can’t get that right, I don’t care what crazy ingredients you shoved on the rest of your pies.
I do the same thing at diners but with a hot roast beef sandwich. Did you toast the bread? Is the gravy creamy and delicious? Is the roast beef heated on the griddle before serving? It’s the brown M&Ms of diner food.
It’s the platonic ideal of pizza.
You could even say it’s…iconic 🍕
Dripping so much grease you have to fold it in half and tilt it to let the extra artery clogging goodness drip down because what else are you going to dip the garlic knots in?
im just gunna leave this homemade beauty
its a giordanos reverse engineered deep dish… 2lbs of cheese
They said “pizza”, not “tomato soup bread bowl”…
J/k - looks epic. Sad I didn’t get a chance to try a real Chicago style deep dish pizza on my first trip earlier this year 😞…
its a cracker crust!
to me, this is why pizza is called a ‘pie’ its a big ol’ meat and cheeese pie. theres something weird about the sauce being on top that makes the whole thing work
if you ever get to a state with a giordanos please give it a try, its the epitome of deep dish (imho). i spent a year learning to making a carbon copy after i moved away.
making a carbon copy
Is making it difficult?
nope. the crust is weird in that its very thin, and contains a lot of oil… and theres 2 of them… a top and bottom. after all the sauces i tried, a generic store brand tasted the best… let me dig out the recipe…
here is the recipe
2lbs mozzarella/pizza cheese 16 oz pizza sauce 1 cup Warm Water 3 2/3 tablespoons Canola Oil 1 teaspoon Olive Oil 1 1/2 teaspoons Kosher Salt 1 1/2 teaspoons Granulated Sugar 3 cups unbleached All-Purpose Flour, Use the Scoop-And-Sweep method 1 1/2 teaspoons Instant Dry Yeast
Prepare Crust Add the warm water and pinch of sugar to mixing bowl add yeast and let foam for 30 seconds or so. Add everything else mix until just stuck together (3-4 minutes, everything will still be flaky)
Lightly flour a surface knead the dough ball for about two minutes. Kneading longer than a couple minutes will make the crust more fluffy and bread-like instead of dense and biscuit-like. Break off 1/3 of the dough ball, this will be the top crust. Form them both into dough balls and place into a large oiled bowl. Let the dough rise once at room temperature, punch down and place in refrigerator for at least 7 hours.
Prepare Pan Take out of the fridge and let it reach room temperature (about 2 hours). Let rise at room temp for 6-8 hours (although it won’t rise much). roll out the balls of dough extremely thin take a cast iron skillet or springform pan (high sides are better) grease with butter well lay the first crust in, it should come all the way up the sides of the pan. wet bottom of crust with sauce very lightly layer in all your toppings with a little but of cheese, the add the rest of the cheese. lay on the top crust, seal it up with the bottom crust. poke some holes in the top crust toward the middle. then pour the sauce on, even out. Bake at 400 for 35-40 minutes, until the crust is lightly browned and the cheese is melted thoroughly.
It’s called a pizza pie, and this is truly a pie, not like those dumb normal flat pizzas.
:<
I don’t want to yuck your yum, but how and why is this pizza. It’s an architectural masterpiece.
pizza is spectrum! theres no right or wrong, it just is.
except pineapple… civilized man must draw a line
I’m a heathen. My standard domino’s order is thin crust with pineapple and light cheddar, dipped in blue cheese dressing.
That looks like raw tomato paste on top
Thin crust with extra pineapple and nothing else. 😜
No, but seriously, my favorite are the thin-ish crust ones my wife makes with fresh dough, with regular sauce, mushrooms, and olives on it.
Back in the day (haven’t tried it in over a decade), pizza hut made really good deep dish pineapple pizzas. The crust was crunchy and just shy of being too greasy and I loved it. But I also love pineapple, so.
I joked about pineapple on pizza before. But honestly, I don’t really mind it. Even without ham, a little bit of pineapple tastes okay to me.
Detroit style!
Personally I’m partial to free pizza.
Caramelized onions, thinly sliced potato, fontina cheese (no tomato, mozz, etc.). I made it among other pizzas for Thanksgiving one year and it was the best by leaps and bounds.
I’ve been obsessed with prosciutto, asparagus and onion lately but I made an onion, fennel and Italian sausage the other day that was really nice.
My favorite is Kalamata olives and pepperoni, but your post reminded me that fennel and sausage is easily a close second - did not expect to like that flavor combination at all (really just not a fennel fan). Everyone should try it if they get the chance!
Italian sausage has a ton of fennel in it already.
Woah really? I love learning such simple facts - thank you!
A simple NY style slice with extra cheese. Maybe some Buffalo sauce to dip in if I’m feeling fancy
The best pizza place near me does a goat’s cheese, balsamic onion, and rocket one that’s absolutely stellar. To be honest though I’m not super fussy about toppings, I like this pizzeria more because whatever you order, they use good ingredients and cook it perfectly
I hate rocket on my pizza!
Detroit style. The crispy corner pieces!
If we’re talking absolute favorite, then I’m a Chicago deep dish kinda person. White or pesto sauce, cheese, artichokes, onions, tomatoes, grilled chicken, spinach, bacon, maybe some more meat or veg. Gimme that and a fork and knife and I’ll be very happy.
Hells yeah!
Deep dish, stuffed pizza, anything thicc.
I like several kinds.
I’ve posted before about the cast-iron pan-pizza I make myself, and that’s the best I can do at home.
There’s a local restaurant that makes not-really neapoletan pizza (the bottom is too thick and the oven isn’t quite hot enough) but they have really figured out the flavor profile on their dough, sauce and fillings, netting excellent results.
At times I really crave and enjoy a Pizza Hut pepperoni pizza. I wouldn’t call it my favourite, but sometimes it’s exactly what I want.
They no longer exist, but there use to be a local chain of pizza restaurants that would make giant sheets of pizza in bulk, and let you pick three squares from three different (or the same) pizzas for a meal. They had a potato-rosemary pizza that I adored. I still want to eventually recreate something like it at home.
There’s a new chain that popped up recently which I really like. They make oblong pizzas with a wholegrain dough, that they then slice into strips. The meals come with a sauce to dip the pizza-strips in. The result is delicious.
When it comes to toppings, I generally want a strong umami tomato sauce, mild cheese, and some kind of spicy meat like pepperoni or equivalent.
But I’ve also tried white pizzas (pizzas with no tomato sauce), pizzas where potato or even pears were among the toppings, and they can be absolutely delicious.
I like a good buffalo chicken pizza with red onions, slathered in blue cheese
margherita pizza, followed by trashy pizza.
trashy pizza
I’m going to assume you didn’t mean this trashy but I stand by a Totino’s Party Pizza cooked on a Presto Pizzazz Pizza Oven being epically underrated trashy pizza option.
Olives, capers and anchovies
Served on a slab of rock salt
