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> For every perfect, client-ready pizza, there were at least six that missed the mark— ... pepperoni that curled when cast in the oven, pockmarking the pie wit
by function_seven 8y ago
> For every perfect, client-ready pizza, there were at least six that missed the mark— ... pepperoni that curled when cast in the oven, pockmarking the pie with tiny buckets of grease.
Ummm, that's a feature, not a bug. Right? best pepperoni is the curled up kind as far as I'm concerned.
- Slartie 8y agoI'd second this! I'm very much into making pan pizza at home, and I totally love when the pepperoni pieces get just a little crispy and curled up at the edges. This (as well as the cheese color) tells me when it's time to fetch the pizza from the oven. But maybe that's just the commonly agreed ideal for pan pizza. The article was about New York style pizza, after all.
- Shivetya 8y agoand here I remember pizza where the pepperoni is put on after the pizza is baked as there is sufficient time for it to "cook" from oven to presentation or boxing without it curling or leaving grease behind
- chomp 8y agoFeature for me! Here's a great article about pepperoni curl: https://slice.seriouseats.com/2012/12/the-pizza-lab-why-does-pepperoni-curl.html https://slice.seriouseats.com/2012/12/the-pizza-lab-why-does...
- arkades 8y agoAfter reading that passage in the article, I thought maybe I’m misremembering - weren’t cupped pepperoni the superior? And then, when it got to the passage about “truffle oil” being “craveable” I stopped doubting myself. Truffle oil is synthetic garbage used to sucker people unaware of the non-relationship between truffles and “truffle oil.” Now I just can’t figure out whether this is a fast food consultancy that knows nothing about actual food (which would be ironic, but not surprising), or whether they know about food, and this is pure cynicism on their part regarding the public’s taste in food.
- jacobush 8y agoAbsolutetely not surprising, given that many chains don't either, seem to know about actual food.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago> Truffle oil is synthetic garbage used to sucker people unaware of the non-relationship between truffles and “truffle oil.” I've had real truffle oil in Croatia and it is absolutely divine. A far cry from the synthetic stuff, which I can now smell a mile off. The real deal is incredibly expensive, mind. I suppose I just wanted to point out that not all truffle oil is garbage, although perhaps in the US the real stuff is vanishingly rare.
- jancsika 8y agoReal or not, if you give me a quinoa salad next to some truffle oil mac & cheese, the truffle oil is going to ruin whatever you tried to get me to taste in the quinoa salad. It would be like drinking wine with a chili dog. Food isn't boolean.
- carlob 8y ago> I've had real truffle oil in Croatia and it is absolutely divine. A far cry from the synthetic stuff, which I can now smell a mile off. The real deal is incredibly expensive, mind. There is no such thing as real truffle oil: take real truffles, put them in olive oil, the olive oil is going to just coat them and not extract anything. 2,4-Dithiapentane needs to be added anyway.
- notyourday 8y agoThere's no such thing as a real truffle oil. All of it is synthetic crap. In Europe they actually shave some truffles here and there on food.
- walshemj 8y agoInteresting a guy in the UK planted a forest a ten years ago to start production of Perigord truffles - after ten years is first harvest was 25 Truffles. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/05/welsh-landowner-grows-britains-first-crop-worlds-sought-after/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/05/welsh-landowner-...
- rconti 8y agoBug, especially because the ends tend to burn and the oil tends to sear your mouth. To say nothing of what happens 30 minutes AFTER you eat it...