Pizza is stupid cheap to make at home. Domino's is currently offering Minecraft pizzas that are less than twice the size for more than twice the cost. But making it at home means no grease soaked collectable box.
Cost per person before toppings: $2.77 It is very hard to fit even a dollar worth of toppings on a pizza.
I've been doing it for years!
Does getting a cheap $4 unfrozen Aldi Pizza, adding grilled chicken tossed in buffalo sauce, covering it with more cheese, and cooking it in the smoker you found on the side of the road, count?
I splurged for a pizza steel, which pretty much means you're cooking with the same tools the takeout is, so you can satisfy even very picky eaters who want it to look like the restaurant.
One thing that I've found really matters is making the dough well ahead of time. A lot of people say the day before, I age it in the fridge for usually 5 days, but between 3 and 11 have all worked great.
The longer it goes the less bready and more crusty it gets, but it also gets stickier which eventually becomes too much of a pita to deal with.
Made pan pizza a few weeks ago and it beats the pants off of delivery for a fraction of the cost. Gotta love home made
Been working on perfecting dough in my bread maker off and on this year.
Last weeks pie.
I don't follow any particular recipe for the dough. I only rough measure, don't weigh anything. I started with a pretty standard no knead bread dough and messed with it until it worked well for pizza. 3+ day cold ferment.
Toppings are whatever I have.
I really need to find a way to make gluten-free dough that doesn't suck and doesn't take a ton of effort. Gluten-free flour is not a thing where I live and is prohibitively expensive to import.
So say we all.
Love your cooking, looks fantastic
Do you buy the bread(already made dough)? Or do you make the dough at home? I cook three meals a day (middle Eastern food), but never tried making pizza at home to be honest. I’m now intrigued. Do share your secrets, please.
Your pizzas are a source of inspiration.
Counter offer, you make a pizza at my home
Cost per person before toppings: $2.77
Will tbf, split a costo pizza between 4 people and you're already ahead 🤷
Now that looks tasty. Did you make your own dough, or use a dough from the deli?
EDIT: Durr. Should've read all the comments.
Cost per person is $2.77? I see only 2 portions in that photo.
I make French Bread Pizzas with a big Cuban loaf from the grocery store. The trick is to coat the bread with garlic olive oil, and toast it for about 5 minutes before putting the sauce, cheese, and toppings on. That way, it's toasted all the way through, without burning the toppings.
We make them all summer long in the pizza oven and heart shaped pizzas for Valentine's day. The kids love helping make them and coming up with different toppings to try.
The smoke detectors in my place go off every time I’ve made pizza so I don’t make pizza at home anymore :c
Pizza looks SO good! I think I'm seeing peperoni, olives, and banana peppers? Good combo if so!
The distribution of olives is all outta wack.
Been using this recipe (serious eat is my goto) in a (big, oblong) air fryer that only does 210C, so you have to par bake it on baking paper for ~ 6 min before toppings. Comes out as good as delivery pizza (so not as good as it could be, but I no longer have a normal oven). The food processor thing works surprisingly well, but you have to be careful in timing, too long and it gets super sticky and annoying (equivalent to over kneading I guess), pull it when it's in the ball phase (like 12 seconds) and knead a bit manually with flour, divvy into balls and fridge for a few days.
Now I'm going to experiment with cast iron and/or the Weber, thanks for the inspiration.
I need to try this again. Every now and then I get pre-made dough from Aldi and do a stromboli with their Italian trio (genoa salami, provolone cheese, and pepperoni) and some extra mozzarella. We've talked about doing a pizza with Aldi dough, but we've never actually done it. I brought home a take out pizza from a local restaurant today, so it's pizza night for us, too.
Where the recipes at?
Homemade pizza tastes so good. Can vouch!
I love homemade pizzas! Nice toppings. On the subject of toppings and price, if you do want something delicious and a bit more expensive: Fig & Prosciutto pizza.
Anyone know a good gluten free base recipe? Tried and tested if possible!
fine, maybe I will
Russian crazy authorities want to ban pizza (as enemy's food)
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