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Do you guys reckon there's a chance you might be losing some of the joy of making and eating pizza by becoming bogged down with trying to replicate a specific type with particular ingredients?
This is the joy for me. Sometimes I want that Neapolitan, sometimes I want crispy NY style, sometimes I'll bang out a quick and dirty dough, sometimes I'll really take care with a slowly fermented sourdough.
But a big part of the fun is really nailing a pizza, regardless of the style. And shitty ingredients can hold you back. Balls of mozzarella that piss water everywhere aren't ideal, but neither is supermarket dried mozzarella that tastes of nothing. I equally like banging out ham and pineapple (much to the chagrin of half of this thread!).
Also, there's a joy in sourcing good ingredients. I find it quite funny going to the Italian wholesaler to get ingredients (so do they it seems). And I love making pizzas for friends and sharing these ingredients and new techniques.
It's like anything, just do it in the way that you enjoy. To what degree you take it is a very personal thing.
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Do you guys reckon there's a chance you might be losing some of the joy of making and eating pizza by becoming bogged down with trying to replicate a specific type with particular ingredients?
I genuinely ask this question without hint of criticism. It's just so far away from my own personal experience of learning how to make pizza over the last 15 years or so. Variation is part of the joy for me. I find it hard to declare one style of pizza the king and find that the pizzas I enjoy most are the ones that I make using the baking goods I generally have to hand with the ingredients that are readily available depending on where I am at the time. This seems to hold true whether I'm making pizza for 2 or pizza for 100. Wood fired, on the BBQ or in an electric oven. And surely some of the spirit of the pizza is in it being a cheap and simple thing to make?
Perhaps its just a difference of personalities and opinions, but pizza is all about simplicity, practicality and sharing to me and turning it into some sort of luxury item just doesn't sit right.