/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>4962109
Live in Cali, usually get pizza from Domino's because it's cheap. Not good, but better than frozen.
Every few weeks or so I'll spend a little more on Round Table. Best thing they have is the Maui Zaui. Or rather, the best pizza from any chain pizza place ever is the Maui Zaui.

>>4962109
NY, 20-30 minutes away from Soho in Manhattan. Ate a delicious chicken ranch pizza today. Practically no grease, just the right amount, perfect amount of dressing, not too thin, not too thick, nice and crispy but not burnt and the chicken itself was crispy chicken not grilled. The pieces of chicken were also the perfect size and each one was breaded, not like a single piece breaded and cooked and then cut up. Each one was also perfectly cooked.

Phenomenal. Tomato sauce was delicious and the perfect amount of cheese.

$4 a slice. Worth every penny.

>>4962117
>Dominos
>cheap
Nigga I can order a twice as large pizza for the price of a regular Dominos at any local pizza shop. Dominos is fine, but it's not cheap.

>>4962124

How much was the full pizza? Is NY pizza as much as it's hyped up to be?

>>4962151
Where the fuck do you live? Any decent place near me doesn't have a large under 15 bucks. A large Dominos(only ever doing their Monday-Thursday carry-out) is 8 bucks. I guess that's why I find it cheap, I only get the deals.
Even without, they're the cheapest place around that's not Little Caesar's.

>tfw my pizza hut has been demolished to make room for a new taco bell
I've never even had taco bell but that pizza hut was around for many years. I got my free mini pizzas for reading books there like 20 years ago.

>>4962173
I only asked for a slice so I'm not sure. Assuming there were 8 slices to the pie, keep in mind I didn't count but merely saw the pizza pie, and a slice was $4, the pie would come to $32 tops, probably $24 to $26. I'll find out tomorrow for you though.

And I would say Ny certainly knows how to make better pizza than most of the country, but not every Ny pizzeria will make great pizza. As far as a standard, I'd say our pizza overall is better than some place like Texas and California that add weird spices to the sauce and odd amounts of cheese or sauce. This one pizzeria I'm referring to makes great fucking pizza, it's just amazing. Typical Italian place too.

You walk in, counter right on the left with a few seats to sit on, pizza pies right there behind some plexiglas, small with seating in the back, the oven to the right of the counter against the wall. Menu over on top on the back wall, tube tv with sports on to the left. Dude watching and some guy in plaid off from work eating a slice and talking shit. Two people working the place, maybe a third in the back.

>>4962193

Man, I wanna try NY pizza.

I'm livin' in the UK in an industrial city. All the takeaway and pizza places are run by turks, who make pretty sub-par pizza for the most part. Dominoes is better by a lot, but it also costs more. It's not a good position to be in.

Although, a 16" margharita pizza will set you back £6.50 here, which is about $10. If you order from the turkish places, anyway.

>>4962205
Find a good place though. The "dude" that was watching was the pizza guy watching sports with the guy off from work and the other guy was the delivery "boy", probably mid 20s who walked by, some guy maybe in the back.

Idk why, but I'm transfixed on the atmosphere of this place. Reminds me of the pizza place in my town growing up, also very typical Italian. The guy is old now, his brother moved on, a real macho fit guy with slicked back black hair and a silver chain and I have no idea what happened to the father. it's become a family place now. Much too nice.

This new place is good, I like it. Guy gave me a weird look because he didn't recognize me. I like that.

>>4962224
Sounds like the sort of place hipsters would flock to for its "working-class authenticity" and then ruin by driving away the old customers, then insisting they make gluten-free, organic, vegan options.

>>4962187
fuck you lucky cunt

>>4962187
>I got my free mini pizzas for reading books there like 20 years ago.
aww yeah me too

>>4962109

I live in BC Canada. I stopped ordering Dominoes, Pizza Hut, Papa John's, etc. I can't take it anymore. It's just generic crap. I usually order pizza from private family owned restaurants. There is one that I usually order from called Minerva's. It's a Greek/Italian restaurant and it's fucking delicious. There's another place called goldies that do thin crust brick oven. Normally I get one of the following.

Thin crust, tomato base, mozzarella, italian sausage, green peppers, mushrooms, capicola, roasted garlic.


Thin crust, pesto base, mozzarella, roasted chicken, pine nuts, roasted red peppers.

Hand tossed crust, tomato base, mozzarella+cheddar, Genoa salami, jalapenos, tomatoes, black olives and corn.


I think ever since I ate pizza in Italy I have not been able to adjust back to eating the fast food type stuff.

I live in NYC. Fuck that other guy's "chicken ranch pizza". Where the fuck is he going? Never mind I don't want to know.

Plain is fine. Pepperoni is fine. Margherita is fine. White slices are fine. Fucking chicken ranch? Did they open a California Pizza Kitchen here?

What. The. Fuck.

I'm from a town of less than three thousand people. If I want pizza but don't want to go outta town for it I have to order from the only place in town that makes pizza anymore. And that place is also a gas station. It's pretty decent pizza though. So there's that.

>>4962433

>Gas station
>Does pizza deliveries.


God damn sometimes I wish I was an American.

I usually make my own. In the rare event that we do order out we get a large John's Favorite from Papa John's, but we never pay full price. They always have some sort of deal going on.

I think Digiorno is probably a better value though. You can get them on sale at Publix 2 for $10 and the quality is roughly the same as something from Domino's/Pizza Hut.

>>4962435
>>Does pizza deliveries.
they don't deliver here, you have to pick it up

>>4962436

Doesn't look all that appetizing honestly.

>>4962436

Another picture. Cost is pretty low. I'd estimate:

$0.20 of flour
$0.10 of yeast
$0.20 of olive oil
$0.80 of cheese
$0.50 of sauce

And then toppings change based on just what I have in my fridge. Almost always includes onions, pepperoni, and spinach though. Probably brings total cost per pie to somewhere around $3. And yes, I buy premade sauce, because pizza is usually something I throw together quick because I haven't gone to the grocery store recently.

Protip: buy big blocks of mozarella, cut it into smaller blocks and freeze it.

>>4962440

They're shitty phone pictures and they're not "mass produced" like PJ's, Domino's, etc are to all look the same. Taste better to me, though. Of course, good pizza usually looks way different. Not that mine is particularly "good" or "authentic."

More pics

>>4962448

If you're talking about my pics (>>4962442 and >>4962436) then I apologize, but I don't have any more. I encourage you to make similar pies. With a small investment in bulk ingredients you can make a bunch of pizzas for super cheap.

>>4962453

I agree with this. Making pizza is actually fairly easy.

>>4962457

I'd say very easy. It's scarcely more technical than scrambling eggs, just takes a lot longer, but 80% of that time is waiting for your dough to rise.

Dough recipe I use:

http://billyreisinger.com/pizza_dough.html

>>4962442
>yeasts

Filthy fucking corpse munchers, those yeasts died so that you could make that disgusting pizza.

Why can't you just photosynthesis your own food?

>>4962436
>>4962442
Looks pretty good in my opinion, anon.

>>4962431
EuropeAnon here.
I've tried buffalo chicken pizza. It's got that regular buffalo sauce (vinegar hot sauce mounted with butter) but it's thickened a bit. It uses that as the base sauce and it's then topped with buffalo-spiced chicken breast and crumbles of blue cheese and drizzled in a circular pattern with ranch dressing.
Would you believe that it was quite good? I don't know if this is a universally American thing or regional only, but I had it in Philadelphia. I also had cheeseburger pizza. As the base sauce, it had a caraway-flavoured special sauce IE mustard/ketchup/mayo mixture topped with shreds of American cheese, crumbles of beef mince and sautéed onion. After coming out of the oven, it's topped with slices of pickles, raw onion and shredded lettuce. I liked that, too.