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zebra2  ·  4183 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What three food components would you choose together, right now if you could?

00 flour pizza dough

San Marzano tomatoes

Buffalo mozzarella

I've been improving my pizza game for a while now and I've come fairly close to the technique behind an actual neapolitan pizza considering that I'm working with an electric oven. Still, I can barely even get my hands on the authentic ingredients for one. I've just recently found that I can get the tomatoes from a local store, now I need to round up the rest. It won't be a wood fired one, but I found a decent way to do it with the broiler and a baking stone.

Little did I know when I started making pizzas that it would be an all-consuming quest.





JakobVirgil  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I or rather my wife and I made some great pizza in an electric oven. it had a broken thermostat and got up to something close to 900 degrees.

zebra2  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I guess I just need a hammer then.

JakobVirgil  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

you already have the pizza stone.

humanodon  ·  4183 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I wonder if you've read this article?

zebra2  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I haven't seen that one before. Why can't authenticity be simple? Regardless, supposedly even the American-grown ones are an improvement over standard canned tomatoes. However I did get a can of Italian ones from near mount Vesuvius. I haven't tried them yet though.

humanodon  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know that pain :)

Authenticity is a great thing to strive for but in the end, food is a fleeting thing and that's part of its mystique.

That's a really nice looking pie though, no matter what.

zebra2  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a real Neapolitan, not one of mine. Here are a couple of mine:

thenewgreen  ·  4177 days ago  ·  link  ·  

These look great. What accounts for the different color of the crusts? The below one is much more "orange."

zebra2  ·  4177 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think the bottom one gets it's color mostly from the cheese and lighting. It was also done at a lower temperature so there's no charring.

By the way, I got your postcard and another is being sent soon.

thenewgreen  ·  4177 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Cool. I have another post card all set for you when this one arrives. I was just at a concert and I looked all over for a postcard there that had the location on it but couldn't find one. Not even the bed and breakfast had one. Bummer. Still, I have a good one to send you next. Postcards are fun.

humanodon  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, I thought that first pic was a bit staged-looking. Those look plenty good too. That site I linked you to before has a good pizza section called, "Slice" that covers all things pizza, including regional pizza styles within the U.S. and sometimes other countries as well. Their guides to making different styles of pizza is pretty great too.

I don't make Neapolitan pizza, personally. I'd love to, but for a long time location and availability of ingredients forced me to improvise. Next time I make some I'll take some snaps.