Pizza

It is that time of year again.

Time for Pizza to celebrate National Pizza Day.

Facts:

Pepperoni is the most popular pizza at 36% of all pies ordered.
   Over 3 billion pizzas are sold in the USA each year.  Add another 1 billion on frozen pizzas
   In the United States, 17% of all restaurants are pizzerias.
    Antica Pizzeria, the first Pizzeria, opened in Naples, Italy, in 1738.
   Gennaro Lombardi, the first Pizzeria in the United States, opened in 1895 in New York City.
   Americans consume on average 23 pounds of pizza per person each year.

https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-pizza-day-february-9

Threads

https://permies.com/t/209772/pizza-considered-junk-food
https://permies.com/t/93892/York-style-pizza-sauce-crust
https://permies.com/t/74524/Gluten-Free-Pizza-Crust
https://permies.com/t/93692/Recipe-Cauliflower-Pizza-Crust
https://permies.com/t/12362/Grain-free-dairy-free-soy

Some Pizza from those threads


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PEP Badge Bit (BB)

https://permies.com/wiki/103081/pep-food-prep-preservation/Bake-pizza-PEP-BB-food

One thought I had recently was that many cultures around the world have their own form of flatbread: pita and lavash in the Middle East, naan and dhosa in India, injera in Ethiopia, various types of fry bread in many Native American tribes, etc.

What do Americans have? Pizza.

Hiker hunger makes even pizza taste better. This is my son helping me finish off a pizza at the Wolfpen Gap Country Store in Suches GA. He went hiking with us though he was a bit out of shape for it, and this is where he left the trail to board a Greyhound bus back home. It was a great pizza, it was a bittersweet day. He wanted to keep going with us, but didn't have the oomph left.

I heart pizza!

I bought an outdoor propane pizza oven. Steep learning curve but after a few attempts I had edible pizza! If you cook outdoors a lot and want a little more variety I'd recommend it. Pizzas are pretty cheap too. A "personal" ~10" is probably $3 in ingredients if you're just doing dough / sauce / cheese / spinach.

About a year and a half ago, we started playing around with dry-stack brick pizza ovens. We love the pizza, but it takes an AWFUL lot of wood and time - 4hrs! - just to get the oven up to temp. So now, we're both to learning how to weld, and we're going to build a rocket stove/pizza oven combo. John bought a plasma cutter, a flux-core welder, and all the ppe. We have some of the metal we need, as well as plenty to practice with, and lots of local cheap or free options for more. I can't wait for that first pizza!!

Carla you and John should go visit a welding shop.
Ask to try using a solid core mig welder with shielding gas.
I have been using a flux core welder for the last few years.  
I have never been happy with how the weld looked.
My stick welds look much better.
Then recently I tried out a  solid core mig welder.
OMG, the difference is amazing.  My welds suddenly looked like a pipefitter made them!
Think of all the money I would save on grinding wheels...

I'm looking at a nice 90 amp Lincoln Mig, it is selling for under $400, quite a bit higher than the flux core machines at $150 but I think it might be worth it.

thomas rubino wrote:Carla you and John should go visit a welding shop.
Ask to try using a solid core mig welder with shielding gas.
I have been using a flux core welder for the last few years.  
I have never been happy with how the weld looked.
My stick welds look much better.
Then recently I tried out a  solid core mig welder.
OMG, the difference is amazing.  My welds suddenly looked like a pipefitter made them!
Think of all the money I would save on grinding wheels...

I'm looking at a nice 90 amp Lincoln Mig, it is selling for under $400, quite a bit higher than the flux core machines at $150 but I think it might be worth it.

It very well might be, Thomas! Right now though, we have to work within the budget, and most of our welding will probably be simple down & dirty repairs. If we decide we want to go deeper down that rabbit hole, we'll definitely look into the mig (we've even talked about it, already - and tig will never be an option, because of John's metal allergies). But, for now, this is gonna hafta do...