Posted on 01/29/2021 12:10:25 PM PST by mylife
Detroit-style pizza was once locked down to the state of Michigan, but recently, thanks to chains like Jet’s, it’s slowly been trending its way around the United States. The original version was developed in 1946 at a restaurant called Buddy’s Rendezvous (now known as Buddy’s Pizza). Like so many American pizzas, it was inspired by an older version: it’s an offshoot of the puffy, bready Sicilian-style (think focaccia). It’s always baked in blue steel pans, and its one big defining characteristic is the crust.
The crusts of Detroit-style pizzas aren’t the bare pizza bones a lot of people throw away. Rather, they’re composed of the same cheese that tops the pizza. When the pizza is baked, the cheese around the edges caramelizes to a dark brown crunchy lace. If you’ve never had it before, it’s easy to assume that someone just burned it, but the edges are always the best part of a Detroit square.
(If it sounds like I’m a massive pizza geek, I have a perfectly legit reason: I’m a former full-time pizza maker, and one of the specialties of the place I worked at—and still moonlight at occasionally—is Detroit-style pizza.)
On January 26, Pizza Hut unveiled its very own version of Detroit-style pizza. This foray came as a surprise to me, since it’s been a very long time since Pizza Hut has offered a new style. Pizza Hut was my family’s go-to when I was a kid (remember Pizza Hut’s Book-It program?), but over the years, I felt like it fell off in quality, big time, so it quietly fell out of my rotation.
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Looks messy...but tasty!
My family loves Jet’s 8 corner pizza.
Very messy.
I understand the crust but sauce goes on the bottom.
Also veg belongs under the cheese so it doesn’t burn and meat on top to crisp.
Does it come with a side order of ammo?
5.56mm
No pepperoni
No pizza
No calzones
One really good place here gives you garlic an chili infused olive oil to dunk the crust in...
please....NY style....that’s it...
Gotta try it to appreciate it. Yes, it is that good.
A favorite here, too, but we ususlly buy very local.
Chicago deep dish is good, but is it really pizza?
More like some lasagna in a pie kind of affair..that requires a knife and fork...
Pizza Hut, like all the pizza mega-chains, uses the same cheap “cheese” from a company called Leprino foods. They use some kind of process to turn milk into “cheese” in like 4 hours instead the 2 weeks or more it takes to make real mozzarella cheese.
See:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2017/05/23/james-leprino-exclusive-mozzarella-billionaire-cheese-pizza-hut-dominos-papa-johns/?sh=3dea75f44958
Papa Johns is terrible.
That’s like saying Tulsi Gabbard is the best Democrat in years.
Agreed. Ditto Domino’s last time I had it.
About the only good thing that can be said of any of them is that they’re cheap.
But this pie has racing stripes..
But this pie has racing stripes..
The redeeming factor at piece a butt is you can sit down at the bar, order a pizza and a draft beer, and the pizza arrives just as you finish up the beer.
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