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So far pizza making for me has been a fun learning and adaptation experience. I have an ideal that I aspire to in terms of the base and after that wish to assemble good quality ingredients on top that work well together.
Finding great ingredients and seeing how things can be changed and evolve has been really satisfying. For me there is a simple perfection to a light thin dough with a puffy crust, topped with good quality ingredients. If I am doing it I’d like to do it well. I’d rather source decent flour, make a dough etc than just go to the corner shop, buy a loaf of bread, ketchup, industrial long life cheese flip the toaster on its side and make pizza toast.
dancing james-
There’s a time and a place for pizza toast. Inviting friends round for food and drinks may not be the one though.
It’s like anything, if you enjoy it, you probably want to get better at it. And your enjoyment will manage your investment - I don’t think people are striving for the perfect pizza and not enjoying it.
Nef
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.