What's so GREAT about wood-fired pizza?

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And while we're at it, what's so FUNNY about peace, love and understanding?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I kiss you

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK PIZZA

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: gourmet pizza vs. frozen pizza vs. new york pizza vs. chicago pizza

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

AdamL, are you specifically meaning WOODY'S WOOD-FIRED PIZZA?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicago pizza wins every time.

Also, there's a place called Pit Fire Pizza, which prides itself on being wood-fired but never notes that it tastes like ass.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually don't like pizza much at all.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Homosexual II, I am not.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

pizza buffets: classic or dud.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I miss EFNY pizza. The potato-pesto. Also, the girls who work there.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

pizza buffets are okay as long as they don't have gross shit like pineapple/sausage or green pepper/chorizo.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

how long before this becomes a burritoville circle jerk???

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ugh what a horrible image.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

And still nobody's answered my original question.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The crispiness of the crust, adam! THE CRISPINESS OF THE CRUST.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

answer: nothing, they just hope that the fact that it's cooked over wood or whatever makes it sound more hippy-crunchy and organic. I've never had one that I enjoyed that much.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam, it's supposedly the way they do it in italy, and therefore, the best way. I saw some special about it once on BBC 1. It was like, the history of the pizza. I was bored, obviously.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyhow, the reason wood-fired pizza is because of some ROCKISTS out there.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 25 June 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

That sentence is botched but you can figure it out.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 25 June 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

wood-fired pizza: delicious charred blackness and (as ian said) cripness

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Friday, 25 June 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll take a plain old pizza oven every time. Mostly cuz those fancy wood/coal/brick oven pizzas get cold in 5 minutes which means they are rock hard and cold if you get them to go. If you eat them in the place they aren't bad as long as you like extra crunchy crust. I can't believe that I moved to Martha's friggin' Vineyard in the middle of the ocean and have found better pizza than at 99% of all Philadelphia pizza joints! Philly pizza mostly blew. Even the fancy places that charged you 20 bucks for a pizza. They say the secret is the water with pizza so I'm guessing the river water we all drank there wasn't doing anyone any favors. (Plus, the greeks in philly make the worst pizza ever. no offense. love the ruins, the culture, the greek food, but they make lousy pizza.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 25 June 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

But, you know, it's baked with a fire made out of, like, wood!

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 25 June 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Here in Sydney they have ordinary and fancy-schmantzy pizzas.

They tend to overdo the cheese on the ordinary ones (perhaps inspired by the cheese-through-the-crust thing Pizza Hut do, that's just stoopid, now it's cheese and bacon too), making the pizza a gooey stretchy thing of cartoon wonderment, and little more than cheese on toast.

The fancy schmantzy ones are usually woodfired, thin as thin, four prawns, one in each corner, charge you AUS $19. Ridiculous.

A good pizza, in my opinion, is very simple, low on cheese and needs no more than one or two toppings of the finest, freshest, simplest ingredients.

If the pizza starts to resemble an ordinary meal on a plate of pizza base with cheese all over it, then things are getting silly. If I want tandoorie lamb, I'll go to an Indian restaurant - they won't cover it in cheese and put it on a pizza base.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 25 June 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Pizza Bass would be a good side project name for Deep Dish.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 25 June 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyhow, the reason wood-fired pizza is because of some ROCKISTS out there.

According to the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, authenic Neapolitan pizza:

To be authentic, in this sense, the pizza must be cooked on the brick floor of, ideally, a wood-burning oven--provided wood is available and local laws permitting--or else a gas-burning oven specially designed for the purpose. The pizza itself must be composed of olive oil, salt, flour, water, yeast and mozzarella di bufala (or fior-di-latte).
― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 26 June 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

You Bet! and if you want good pizza, venture to Montreal or any town in Que.

― Gale ([email protected]), Sunday, 27 June 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never tried a wood- fired pizza.

― Gale ([email protected]), Sunday, 27 June 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i always think it sounds weird when people call it "pizza Pie".

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 27 June 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

but yeah wood fired is definatley best cos you get some crispy black carbon-ness and it tastes a bit smokey. delicious.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 27 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The best thing about wood fired pizza is the smell when they light the oven. I used to liveon top of a fucco a legno izza place in Italy and every evening at6 they'd light the oven and the smell would come wafting in through my balcony doors like a call to prayer. The reason why it's better is the quality of theheating that the pizza gets, it's uneven, the pizza has to be turned, and dry, what's more the crispyness of the basse is improved by the uneven brick floor of the oven as the dough's moisture is unevenly drawn down into the bricks. I'm sure you could replicate this with a gasor electric oven, but it wouldn't be the same.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 28 June 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

my favorite pizza is indented pizza.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 28 June 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I once ate at what was billed as the oldest surviving pizzeria in Italy, in Naples. There'd been a pizzeria on that site for about 150 years, I think they said. It wasn't very good. Not because it was a wood-fired oven though – it's just that the food wasn't hot and they were pretty surly. Usually, wood-fired crispy charcoal=classic.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 28 June 2004 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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