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Jdurg:
I've never had a problem with homemade pizza crust. i've always had problems with the cheese. It usually forms a solid mass that just slides right off and isn't stringy like chain restaurant pizzas are. The problem is that grocery stores typically get the worst grades of cheese on earth, so it is almost impossible to get good cheeses. You have to go to a specialty dairy store to get high grade cheese and make a good pizza with it. For me, that's just more expensive than going to a chain restaurant.
Think about it. How much money are you spending on your oven, ingredients, equipment etc.? Compare that to $10 for a large pizza at these chain places. If your argument for homemade pizza is that it's cheaper, then you're wrong.
If your argument is that homemade pizza tastes better, then well yeah. That's a pretty easy victory there. ;D :cheers:
The problem I've found is that non-chain restaurant pizzas are all starting to taste exactly the same to me. Very little variety. I don't find certain frozen pizzas or certain chain-pizza places bad at all. In fact, there are times where I crave a Dominos pizza or a Papa John's pizza over a local place. (Though there aren't any Papa John's pizza places here in Southeast CT. ZILCH).
My personal favorite pizzas are some of the pizza places in and around Manhattan, and a pizza place up in Plainfield that is owned by a guy who started up in Brooklyn. They have this insanely good Caesar Salad Pizza. It's a pizza with garlic, parmesean, basil, etc. that is cooked, then after it gets out of the oven they put romain lettuce on top and drizzle it with a homemade Caesar Dressing. Mmmmmm............
Hoopz:
Papa Murphys is the best pizza you can by thats a chain.
billf:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 09, 2008, 11:59:42 am ---Okay . . . I can buy the taster part. But did you say that making your own was also faster and easier? ;D
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That's exactly what I was thinking when reading it. Don't really think its faster/easier, but definitely tastier. My wife and I used to make our own pizza when we had the bread machine going constantly. We made the dough in the bread machine and then topped the pizza with our own ingredients.
shardian:
Singapura, I find it hilarious that you go thru that outrageous process for gourmet pizza, then throw frikkin leftovers on it! :laugh2:
Foreign countries do pizza completely different than Americans. In America, shredded mozzarella is the main pizza cheese. I've seen international gourmet pizzas with 4 big hunks of some random gourmet cheese just thrown on it with some mushrooms.
I make my own pizza crusts occasionally. Basically I make the dough standard, but add a liberal amount of italian seasoning and parmesan directly to the mix. I use standard off-shelf pizza sauce or spaghetti sauce. I mix mozzarella and cheddar cheeses. Lastly, I use Turkey pepperoni. It tastes exactly like regular pepperoni, but without the grease puddles.
Justin Z:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on May 09, 2008, 01:20:50 pm ---Papa Murphys is the best pizza you can buy thats a chain.
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