/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I don’t know man. Pizza never seems worth the effort to me. It’s actually kinda expensive to make and my oven is never gonna be comparable to an actual wood fire oven.

I buy premade dough at Whole Foods for the convenience. I then go to my local regular supermarket for pizza sauce and mozzarella. All in, I'm looking at like $4 per pizza, with toppings.

It only takes like 5 minutes to prepare a pizza. Why do people say it's so hard? Is this a memo? It's practically the same amount of time as doing an online order with Dominos.

>>12686272
>>is infinitely more delicious than anything you can buy
Maybe if you live in Bumfuckistan

>premade dough

>>12686278
For real, a resteraunt serving good food wont be cheap
There are 5 pizza places were i live 4 (no chains) have pretty much the exact same prices and i would bet dough and toppings aswell
The 5th makes almost everything himself and they use a real wood oven (can smell them starting it at about 16:00 on my way home from work)
I only go to the 5th and pay almost 1.5 times as much but have never been let down

If you have an actuall pizza oven (gas or wood) its worth it at home otherwise you might aswell just make a frozen one in a normal oven

>>12686297
>uses pre made dough, pre made pizza sauce and probably pre shredded cheese
>wonders why people say pizza making takes work

Holy hell you are dense. You're not even really cooking. Just assembling

>>12686278
How is it expensive? Which part? Most places charge $10-$15 for a large. You can't keep it under that? And you don't need a wood oven. Just a pizza stone a long time to pre heat it

>>12686306
I live in New Zealand (am from Chicago) and my only option is to make it myself. You'd think someone, somewhere would've thought to bring what would be a C+/B- delivery "map of Italy" quality place here and just clean up but no...no can do.

I understand the inability to get the right ingredients to make good mexican, but pizza? Oh well.

>pain in the ass to make
I genuinely never understood why people say this. It's about as much work as any other thing except you have to let the dough rest for a while. You do know you can fuck off and do something else during the dough resting time, right? Or do people just stand there watching it in case of a wild nigger attack?

>>12686306
He's right tho.

>>12686272
Just make mini pizza with bread, you can thank me later.

>>12686318
Not cool. Was making pan pizza last night when 6 basketball Americans broke in and stole the dough

>>12686272
I wouldn't say homemade pizza is infinitely better, unless your standards are extremely low like Little Caesar's level.

>>12686308
>premade dough

Real simple dough, 2 folds. Cheddar, goat cheese, boars Head pep, sauteed shiitakes with garlic, finished with decent American parm and cornicabra oil. 7 minutes at 500 on a stone then finish under the broiler for a bit

>>12686272
>pain in the ass
Why? Making dough isn't that hard.

>>12686272
Anything worth doing, is worth doing right. A good pulled pork needs at least 2 days. It's a food of love

>>12686272
>is infinitely more delicious than anything you can buy
Just what kind of recipe are you using? Genuinely curious, I've never had homemade pizza that was all that great.

>>12686336
if you're not going to ferment the dough why even bother making your own at home? you may as well just buy store bought

>>12686362
Fermented for like 18 hours chump. Let it double in volume once, fold, let it double in volume again, fold, let it puff back up and divide out. Refridge until you're ready.

>Mfw Papa Murphy's

Pizza is actually one of the few things best not made at home OP. Unless you have a pizza oven

>>12686336
looks pretty good would eat/10

>>12686272
>homemade pizza is such a pain in the ass to make
bread machines make pizza dough in 30 minutes.

>>12686501
>Fermented for like 18 hours chump
waste of time. just add some acid to the dough. same thing.

>>12686311
what do you think cooking is other than assembling different ingredients dumb shit

>>12686272
Buy 12" or larger soft wheat tortillas.
Buy pre-made sauce.
put a thin layer of sauce between two tortillas.
Put another layer of sauce on top, and then top with cheese and a few other toppings. Not too many.
Bake it in the oven until it's done.

This style of pizza is delicious and makes little mess. After the first couple shouldn't take longer than 15 minutes from setting the oven to pre-heat until a finished product.

>>12686272
I know what you mean. Same issue with fries and bread. My gf is bitching and moaning about how much she has to clean up after I do these. Anyone knows how to freeze once fried fries and pizza dough? Bread is fine when frozen but I dunno about fries and raw yeasty dough

>>12686670
On that note I gotta recommend podpłomyk again. It's a Polish tortilla/pizza and the dough takes like 5 minutes to make (it has to rest for 30) and it's great.

>>12686297
I'm not saying everyone has to make pizza from scratch, but you have to be pretty stupid to not realise that's what OP was talking about.

>>12686336
Looks preddy good, not much spring on your crust though, I'd say you didn't preheat your oven/stone very long, especially if it took 7 minutes. When I make pizza I preheat my cast iron and the oven, load my pizza on and switch straight to broil and it's done in a couple of minutes.

>>12686501
>Fermented for like 18 hours chump
Try 48 hours or more. Dough is much more sour and flavorful.

>>12686272
>is infinitely more delicious than anything you can buy
Where in flyover land are you?

I buy frozen cheese pizzas and dress them up. It's fun, inexpensive, you get something fresh from the oven, and, for me at least, I prefer it to the national chains and most local places, too. When I want something better than frozen crust, I'll order a cheese pizza from a local place. If you want something loaded with toppings, do it yourself at home. If dough quality is what you care about, then order takeout.

>>12686718
>you have to be pretty stupid to not realise that's what OP was talking about.
OP was showing off his ridiculous sense of entitlement, griping about how really good food is either something of a chore to prepare or expensive to have made for you. No shit. This is why most people settle for mediocrity.

>>12686697
just make roast potatoes at home
why fuck around with deep frying?

>>12686272
what recipe do you use for the dough? looking for a good pizza dough recipe if anyone can recommend

for me, you gotta cook it in the cast iron pan

>>12686697
Maybe just don't make a huge mess like a complete retard.

I got some costco frozen cheese pizzas what should I top then with ck?

home made pizza with a raw sauce is barely more work than making a frozen pizza

>>12686272
Making pizza from scratch takes forever but it's no harder than making bread, and you can usually make a few pizzas in one go.

>>12686697
>how to freeze pizza dough

I don't think you can freeze fries, but for pizza dough don't freeze the dough raw, give it the shape, and cook it for a little bit, then you can freeze it safely.

>>12686272
>is infinitely more delicious than anything you can buy
Untrue. The base is always too dry and the sauce is weird.

>>12687696
Shut the fuck up Adam

>>12687831
www budgetbytes com/pizza-dough/

>>12689433
Sounds like you need to get a better recipe anon

>>12689579

>>12686272
>is infinitely more delicious than anything you can buy
No, it isn't, because you don't have an oven that goes up to 900°, and you need that temperature to produce a proper pizza.

>>12686734
Literally an hour preheat at 500. Sounds like you don't know shit bout pizza.

>>12687831
Sorry but you have to be good at making dough, can't just paint by numbers. Adding a fuckload of olive oil is cope for poor fermentation and gluten formation.

>>12686278
I make pizzas on my grill