Cast Iron Pizza
Cast Iron Pizza
Look at that browned crust.
Tomato sauce, mozzarella, and "red devil" beer sausage.
That crust 😙🤌
Bud this is Hut worthy.
Shhh! I outpizzad the hut years ago, but don't even imply it! They'll come for me.
Fear not, he locked himself in a car and ate himself to death.
Bringing back strong 1990s Pizza Hut memories. Sure they are the same still today, but I have not stepped into one since the 1990s as I value my health. Ahahahaha
They are in fact not the same 😭
Pizza hut pan is my favorite fast food pizza and I don't understand how anyone could feel otherwise, unless you have something against crispy buttery overindulgence in which case... fair. But nothing I've seen has come close to that perfec " box kraft Mac n cheese " level of junk food perfection
this.
this is what cast iron was made for.
(that, and everything else I cook. details.)
The Lodge griddle I have really isn't usable for pizza... But for setting atop my induction stove to turn into a big hot metal surface for bacon, burger patties, and toasting the buns, all at the same time? Perfect.
I mean... I've been scouring cast iron at thrift shops for ages.
I'll probably catch flack for it, but I polished off the bottom so as to be better for my induction cook top. I feel like cast iron+induction was a match made in heaven (though I did have to relearn some old habits, like most people I used the flame height to estimate heat into the pan. Now, it's quite a bit more consistent, but also a bit more... technical.)
polishing the bottom isn't hard. an orbital sander, a particulate mask (yes. you need it.). work through the grits. You can do it by hand if you really want to, and you probably don't need to go beyond "fine" grits. (though I took it to extra fine and then hit it up with green buffing compound because... "oooo shiny."...)
Nice crust! How hot does your oven get?
I have no clue.
It's a POS ikea convection/microwave combo thing. The convection mode maxes out at 250 °C, which is pathetic, but for pizza I put a sheet pan in the middle and blast the grill mode which uses a heating element in the top of the oven.
This halves the volume of the oven, and the grill mode doesn't take a temperature, just one of three heat settings.
So I set it to MAX and let it preheat for a bit, and the result is pretty good.
Looks amazing, that's some crafty shit. Do you do a lot of home cooking?
Look at that brown crust, the tasteful thickness of it.Oh my god, it even has pepperoni!
Thicc
Damn, that looks divine
oh hell yeah. adam ragusea's recipe for pan pizza is the best. i've made all sorts already all based off his recipe: pepperoni, chicken alfredo, chicken barbeque, hawaiian, thousand island seafood (a hong kong favourite), etc; all bangers.
That was my starting point. I slowly tweaked my way to a tomato sauce based on the pureed tomatoes I can get from my nearest grocer, and figured out exactly how to best get the stove phase done.
Once I discovered that this spicy snack sausage I can get here is insane on a pizza, I haven't wanted to make it any other way.
Mouthwatering
Is there a recipe? Looks amazing
There is. It's essentially a version of Adam Raguseas cast iron pizza, modified a bit for the stove and oven that I have.
Love Adam Ragusea
Looks like https://youtu.be/9TjUWnAK0cg?si=A3_SR6Ih7JfB4yM- and I'm all about it.
I can recommend this one. I make it regularly, and it's excellent every time.
The crust always comes out amazing in cast iron.
Same, this recipe has always come out amazing. I do a sourdough version as well.
I need to try this. I like a thin, crispy crust and my pizza stone broke while I was moving. I haven't tried making one in my cast iron skillet though.
How much for you to be my chef?!
I dunno man. If you can just pay me enough to cook some for myself, and have a place to live, we'd have a deal.
😮💨
I have a CHF #8 that is a magnificent thin casting, I look forward to trying this with that pan!