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Deep Dish 101 – Lesson 3 : Styles of Chicago Pizza and Maybe a Dough Recipe

Lesson 3 – Styles of Chicago Pizza and Maybe a Dough Recipe I was just working out what I was going to post for Lesson 3 when World Famous Pizza Master Tony Gemignani replied to a mini-rant that I had posted prior to some food porn photos in an earlier post (were you able to follow that run-on sentence?). But before I get to that, I should get to this: I had mentioned in an earlier lesson that I would tell you the deal about Chicago styles of pizza. Here’s the deal: There are TWO main styles of Chicago pizza… Read More »Deep Dish 101 – Lesson 3 : Styles of Chicago Pizza and Maybe a Dough Recipe

Deep Dish-Cember and Year-end Food Porn!

Over this past year… Many deep dish pizzas were made…  and eaten. An oven was replaced. A dough recipe was perfected. Many meats and cheeses were used. We even used a few vegetables. Some chances were taken with gourmet ingredients. Heck, we even put BBQ on a pizza! We learned a lot about deep dish pizza, love and loss, and in a way, we learned a lot about ourselves! Aw, screw all that! Here’s some deep dish pizza food Pr0N! Happy Chrisma-Chanu-Kwanza-Mardis Gras, Everybody!

Deep Dish 101 – Lesson 2: The Basics

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Welcome to Deep Dish 101 – Lesson Two: The Basics.

Webster Poppadopoulous DictionaryWebster’s dictionary defines pizza as:

   a dish made typically of flattened bread dough spread with a savory mixture, usually including tomatoes and cheese and often other toppings and baked.

Deep dish pizza is also made like this, except for a few differences.

1) While most pizzas are baked directly on the stone floor or deck of a pizza oven, a deep dish pizza is baked in a pan. The original Chicago deep dish pizzas were made in round pans, very similar (possibly identical) to cake pans. (never start a sentence with…) Because Deep Dish was intended to be a more substantial version of pizza, it is made in a pan and constructed to have a high outer wall to contain the generous amount of ingredients put inside.

2) With a few exceptions (Jersey, I’m talking to you!), most modern pizzas are made with the dough on the bottom, then the sauce on top of that, and then cheese goes on the very top, along with any additional toppings.

Deep dish pizza is assembled in a very similar way to a New Jersey “Tomato Pie”.
Cheese goes down first, then toppings, and tomato sauce goes on top. For deep dish pizza, this is essential, because if you don’t put the sauce on top, the cheese and toppings will burn due to the longer baking time.

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