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I feel like we need to have a serious conversation about pizza.

You can make it a home no with no toppings for about $2.77.

You can use leftovers for toppings. But even if you pay for toppings, trying to fit more than $0.30 worth of any topping on a pizza is pretty hard.

On the left you have carpet Frozen meatballs with leftover bell peppers and some Thyme-leaved Sandwort I cleared out of a raised garden bed to make room for planting some garlic.

On the right we have your traditional bell pepper, pepperoni and Olive

All together these things are probably about $3.20 per person.

Instead of using bread dough for my pizza crust I made actual pizza crust dough. It has oregano and basil mixed in to the dough.

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[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've looked around my area and haven't found fire brick available anywhere. I want to make pizza oven in the yard.

I just picked up 140 bricks from the ruins of my neighbor's house. I need 400 for a walkway I'm putting in. If I have enough leftovers I might dig deep enough (2') to get some clay and use it to make a cob oven with the bricks so that the clay protects the bricks from cracking but still work as an insulator to trap heat. Stretch goals.

Yes. I have permission to glean their bricks. Payback for installing security cameras and dealing with the cops every time someone thinks they can just go through someone else's burnt out private property.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a fan of John Plant / Primitive Technology I love the cob oven idea, or some equivalent.

Before my disability worsened (in which pizza was just too much work), I had the idea of trying to save some coin and find the equivalent of a "pizza steel" without the markup. Maybe an ~8th of an inch thick, sourced from scrap or something. From what I understand, it works *almost* as good as an authentic brick pizza oven, which is really saying something.

Given how awfully mediocre most pizza is across the States, it almost seems like there's a good business idea there. Making delicious pizza at a low cost and selling it at the local farmers' market, or something like that...

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pizza isn't covered under cottage food laws. So many licences and certs needed. You could sell just the crust under most cottage food laws. Take and bake kinda thing.

We have a really good place in town that makes dough a day in advance and gets a proper char on it. I'm not 100% on their toppings but the crust makes up for it. So I'd have some tough competition.

In my adventures I keep an eye out for any scrap that might be reusable. If I found a decent piece of steel it would make my year. I'd be pulling one of my three angle grinders out to make it the perfect size.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Sounds like a plan!

cottage food laws

Thanks. I knew I was overlooking something, but not what, exactly. :S