The Home Made Pizza Thread

[BongoYodeler]

I have a cast iron flat pan I could use for pizza but I bought it for making naan bread and other flat breads. I also use it for burgers. I'm sure I used it once for some mini pizza. It's a Lodge brand with dual handles.

I like cast iron and don't mind hand cleaning them. It's really not that much work when they are seasoned properly.

Agreed. I've had my cast iron pan for going on 30 years now, and it's undoubtedly the easiest pan to clean of all our cookware.

Makes a really nice pan pizza as well...

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I have a cast iron pan which I used to make pizza between throwing the pizza stone in the skip and getting a steel.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

I have a cast iron pan which I used to make pizza between throwing the pizza stone in the skip and getting a steel.

So you prefer the steel over the cast iron pan?

I'm just back from Wal-Mart, looked at the Lodge pizza pan. Fifteen inch diameter, two handles, flat and heavy, 40 bucks. It didn't make it into my cart . . yet.

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

My wife scrubbed my Griswold griddle with Dawn last week.

 

[Kent88]

My wife scrubbed my Griswold griddle with Dawn last week.

Well you still describe her as your wife, so that must not be too bad of an offense.

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

When I complain about how she does the housework, I remember: somebody else is doing my housework! Then I feel better.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

My wife scrubbed my Griswold griddle with Dawn last week.

Time to reseason. When I acquired my Griswold chicken frier, it hadn't been used in a long time. I scrubbed it back to the bare metal, then coated it with vegetable oil and put it on the grill on high. I repeated that twice, just to make sure it's seasoned well. I use that pan way more than the Lodge skillet, since it's deeper.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

So you prefer the steel over the cast iron pan?

I'm just back from Wal-Mart, looked at the Lodge pizza pan. Fifteen inch diameter, two handles, flat and heavy, 40 bucks. It didn't make it into my cart . . yet.

Yes the cast iron pan was ok but limited the pizza size, much prefer the steel.

 

[sandycove777]

My wife scrubbed my Griswold griddle with Dawn last week.

=,,,(

 

[VApatriot]

Learned a lesson recently. Wanted to make a bubbly dough pizza using AP flour. SWMBO bought bleached White Lily AP flour because it was a BOGO at the Publix., it was all we had on hand. While it did make a pizza, the results were really depressing, no gluten development and didn't even brown. The whitest flour I've ever seen. I'm sure it's fine for biscuits, just not pizza... Never again...

 

[orionol73]

Used the pan dough recipe from Peter Reinhart’s book “Pizza Quest” and ran with it. On 600d flour I used 150g AP flour and the rest was 00. It was delicious and so much lighter than it looked, I ate way too much. However I chickened out and cooked for 22 total before pulling and it needed another 10 for full crispy. It was a success!

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Very delicious looking!

It must have been pizza night, I made two. Both with homemade sausage, sauce and provolone cheese. One was with pepperoni, for me, and the other with black olives and onion, for my wife. Both were thin crust and all AP flour.

No pictures, but trust me, very tasty. Leftovers tonight!

 

[Saunassa]

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First pizza of the new year. Tried a new crust, worked out pretty good but operator error and it could have been better. Leftover ham, figs, and olives with a harissa sauce.
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Figs on a pizza? Whole ones cut up? I have a bag of dried ones from Costco would these work and what is a harissa sauce like. I love them and it would be a good way to get figs into the kids.

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

That is a nice-looking pan pizza. Impressive.

Figs on pizza are fine as long as you're a NEIPA drinker.

 

[ba-brewer]

A shout out to the people that posted pics of pizza with green olive, tried it a few times after seeing them here and really liked the flavor and added salty bite to the pizza, liked it better than black olives.

what is a harissa sauce like

Harissa is a lightly smoky spicy hot sauce type condiment from the middle east, heat level can vary. There was a restaurant near me that made their own I really liked, it was smoky like somewhere between chipotle and smoked paprika had a nice spicy flavor without a hot burn even though you could see the chili seeds.

 

[Immocles]

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Figs on a pizza? Whole ones cut up? I have a bag of dried ones from Costco would these work and what is a harissa sauce like. I love them and it would be a good way to get figs into the kids.

I used dried figs. Chopped up a good handful and tossed em on top. Turned out really good.

The above post has a good description of harissa. It’s one of my favorites to use for pizza sauce when we aren’t doing a traditional red. We make a lot of kitchen sink pizzas to use up leftovers. Things get creative sometimes

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

Harissa Sauce was an early Bond girl.

 

[ba-brewer]

Or an early member of the Spice Girls

 

[orionol73]

A shout out to the people that posted pics of pizza with green olive, tried it a few times after seeing them here and really liked the flavor and added salty bite to the pizza, liked it better than black olives.



Harissa is a lightly smoky spicy hot sauce type condiment from the middle east, heat level can vary. There was a restaurant near me that made their own I really liked, it was smoky like somewhere between chipotle and smoked paprika had a nice spicy flavor without a hot burn even though you could see the chili seeds.

Never had green olives on a pizza?! Mmm so good! Black and green together is a great combo.

On green olives topic, if you have never ever…on a hamburger with generous amounts of mayo or on your nachos

 

[Rodent]

speaking of olives - how about a Muffaletta? If done the way I typically had it served while working in Nawlin's it was somewhere between a pizza and a Calzone

https://www.emerils.com/121389/muffaletta

 

[ba-brewer]

My olive in a sandwich experience is limited to olive loaf, I need to get out more.

 

[ChuckO]

White bread spread with butter, a thick layer of cream cheese and sliced green olives makes a great sandwich.

 

[Immocles]

Philly cheese inspired

pizza

 

[Immocles]

At this point I don’t even know. Some sort of Mongolian beef pizza w a bbq harissa sauce. Does not suck.

 

[Kent88]

 

[treacheroustexan]

Bob evans zesty hot sausage, red sweet and spicy cherry peppers, and low moisture mozz. Garlic olive oil brushed on crust at the end of the cook. Extremely delicious.

 

[VApatriot]

Got this as a birthday gift, made this pie last night. Very happy with the performance.

 

[Oldskewl]

A couple months ago I attempted Vito’s Next level pizza dough and I ended up with a sticky, hard to work with dough. I may try it again with the knowledge I’ve gained. I have used a few refrigerated dough balls from the grocery store since. I’ve been messing around with sourdough since Thanksgiving and decided to try a sourdough pizza dough. I am really happy with how it turned out. It could use a couple tweaks but overall turned out nice.

 

[treacheroustexan]

Threw together a few pepperoni and hot pepper pies last night on the pit boss.

 

[minmaxx77]

I Just discovered this thread and now im craving pizza. Havent made any real ones since autumn.
Here are the pictures from last year.