Pizza and a little pr0n

Mmmmmm...........fresh tomatoes and basil.

Looks great buc!

Dave

It all looks good. But, a Chicago deep dish pie is cooked longer and at a lower heat, this allows the ingredients inside the pizza to boil in molten cheese. It is almost like a hot braising in molten cheese. I know. It sounds delicious. It is better than that.

Also the crust is more of a short crust, with some similarities to cake, not so much bread. Some even use a cornmeal crust, although I am not sure where that comes from. You need to use a crust that will not rise too much, the center does remain soft, as there is a lot of cheese and meat that can soak it.


Notice the pan, see how black it is, and that it is a steel cake pan, that matters, the dark exterior and steel interior adds to the texture of the crust. The bottom, as you can see, is crisp, but, the crumb is soft, not crisp.

Ok I have a Farkin nasty cold right now and my brain is having a hard time functioning

Looks like what you made and I would eat it (- the shrooms ) is hand tossed pizza

This is stuffed pizza



You do pan pizza & deep dish in the same style

Hand tossed and thin crust are totally different animals :wink:

This is hand tossed I made fore the wife for v-day a couple yrs ago,
Bacon, Ita. sausage and black olives. I don't care for veggies on my Za but she does



Ok I exhausted what little of my brain is left.
I'll chime in again when I feel better and jump into the other pizza thread going on right now also.

I WANT WINTER OVER!!!!

landarc beat me to it. By "short dough" he means oil added. corn meal is a must
somebody please finish. I going to lay down

Pie looks great, bucc!

Has to be steel, or tinned aluminum. Can be cold or room temp when placing dough.

I have heard there is controversy about corn meal, that some folks say it is needed, other say not. I think you are okay either way. I will say, my favorite deep dish Chicago style pizza out here was Pizzeria Uno, but, only vaguely related to the Chicago family (enough to use the name, not enough to be part of the original). But, they used a buttery crust with semolina, not corn meal, and it was delicious.

I see you correctly covered the cheese with tomato sauce, normally, the cheese is on the bottom, slices placed in a layer or two, then meats, then veggies, then repeat is there is room. Add tomato sauce on top, layer it is thick, more like 1/2 inch deep. As you saw with yours, it evaporates as you cook it. By placing the veggies on top, they cook faster and braise in the cheese better. (incidentally, I did not learn any of this on my own, this was all told to me by people who worked at Pizzeria Uno and Zacharys, who do a stuffed pizza, not a deep dish).

Looks great from here Bucc!!

I'll take a couple of slices. :thumb:

I'd hit that!

Hey Bucc's, would you do the buckwheat in the crust again? Just curious.

Does this place have a Chicago style Deep Dish Pizza tutorial? Seems like it could use one.:thumb:

Well, I must say that I'd be happy to try a slice or two of either of those, they look great.
Keep us posted with the progress of your "experiments", I've only dabbled with the homemeade pizza a couple of times, but after seeing this, along with many other pizza threads on here, I may just have to try some more.

Thanks Buc

KC

Looks great!