Posted on 02/09/2021 5:20:55 AM PST by mylife
Alot has changed in the past year. What has not is Britain’s love of pizza. From the spike in sales of wood-fired ovens to Pizza Express’s new home pizza kits, the nation’s appetite for hot crust continues to develop like 48-hour fermented sourdough.
According to cookware retailer Lakeland, 33% of people in the UK have made their own pizza from scratch. More than one-fifth of those who had done so own a pizza oven. There exists a coterie of foodies who, armed with portable Ooni or small clay pizza oven (both renowned for hitting the 500C required for Neapolitan-style pizza), are geekily absorbed in Italian flour grades and kiln-dried fuel options: fast-burning, hot birch wood for pizza; ash for lower, slower roasting.
Yet, says Lisa Richards, co-owner of Margate’s Great British Pizza Co, a good slice is difficult. “A couple of friends got ovens in the first lockdown and were like: ‘Yeah, we’re going to smash pizza.’ Then the ‘This is harder than it looks’ messages started. I’ve seen some disasters.”
Even if you can now knock out a passable margherita, perfecting that and then creatively combining pizza toppings requires dedication, imagination and, possibly, a complete rethink of the process.
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There is still broad agreement that three or four toppings is optimal. These should be thinly sliced, in part to ensure they cook thoroughly. Delicate items should be layered under cheese or oiled for protection (undressed kale will easily turn to blackened ash); those you want to crisp up should be placed on top.
I have 4x kids, 3 still with us. We have a “make your own pizza” night maybe every other weekend. The kids love it. They get to be involved and create their own dinner. I make the dough, portion it out, shape it, and they go gangbusters. Great way to bring the whole family together and talk, have some fun.
Something I never thought I would hear.
Amen, get the kids involved, heck get their little fists in the dough.
Weird eh? and over 30% of brits make their own?
No steak and kidney pizza? LOL
In Heaven:
The police are English
The engineers are German
The cooks are French
In hell:
The police are German
The engineers are French
The cooks are English
Great British Pizza
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Something I never thought I would hear.
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I think of shepard’s pie as being the english equivalent of a pizza pie. I love pizza but I could go for some of that too.
A pint of Guinnesss and you can overlook a lot of things.
A pint of Guinnesss and you can overlook a lot of things.
With haggis and blood pudding. Yum
Martha White pizza crust mix
really?
really?
All you really need is a good tomato pizza sauce, cheese, olive oil, and maybe a little garlic.
Yes...... for sure.
Oven at 400 F for 10-15 minutes and add the chopped basil once you pull it out. Crust gets nice and crispy, pair with some Marrano Vignalta (eyetalian cab) and proceed to burn roof of mouth.
Its fun to mock brit cooking, but we invented bagel bites and totinos pizza rolls.
I wonder, do the brits have yorkshire pudding pizza bites?
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