Do you think pizzas have shrunk? The takeaway pizza of my childhood was 100% better than it is now. But we have no proof! Aussies have been complaining about the quality of their pizzas for a while now, so I’m going to show you how to make takeaway style pizza at home.
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The cost makes no sense lol our local NY style in NZ is $38 at the higher end and they are 16inch pizzas, We also have Hells pizza though which is easily the best slightly cheaper option.
Andy I feel this doesn't get enough appreciation, but I love love love the editing lately, with you overlapping in the video like there is two of you.
For that crispy base, I use a Pizza Steel (like a Pizza Stone). Letting that pre heat in the oven is a game changer for getting the right texture.
$3.00 tip? That's not much!
To call that largest pizza family size is absolutely ridiculous. Looks like a standard pizza size here in Finland. I think some pizza places makes their standard pizza even larger.
Cheese last? Nah, get him outta here 😂
Domino's? Bleah. Better to eat the box.
I remember ordering pizza from domino's every Sunday after work. One day the "new box" and subsequent smaller pizza showed up, only for them to bring out the "New york" range which was essentially the old large pizza but only in the classic crust. Now it's a family size yet is still only a large size. Go to our local now much better pizza's and decent size you pay the extra but in reality domino's is not much cheaper and that with more processed ingredients and smaller size.
Up till now, all Americans thought you were Australian
The idea a “large” is 9.5” is criminal.
It is obvious that junk food restaurants are giving smaller portions for higher prices.
But in my head, I think about 2 main reasons.
First the higher price/less quantity aspect related to increasing prices of ingredients: they use less but charge more.
Second to me is the junk food agenda, meaning that we are suppose to ban or reduce junk food in our life.
Since when was a ten inch pizza a large?
No dessert pizza? Which is something that makes no sense what so ever, until you eat it. Then it makes perfect sense!
Luckys pizza in Maroochydore made the best garlic focaccia with Alfredo dipping sauce. Plenty of memories there. Cool video of how to make ‘bad’ pizza
This is a fine video, however…
Is it worth it or not? Perhaps you forgot to tell us?
Cost V cost?
Effort V satisfaction?
Swap ham for sausage/salami on hawaii pizza, maybe add a bit of onion and it gets so much better
I’m always looking for a huntsman spider on your walls
Home cook here, I'm sadly two weeks late to this video but I have developed a solution for the pale base of the homemade pizza (as seen here 9:14):
v1 – your oven has a convection setting – turn the convection on, put your pizza near the bottom (my oven has 5 heights to put the racks in so I go for the 2nd from the bottom), when the toppings are done, the base of the pizza will be nice and brown (switching from baking without convection to with convection might require lowering the temperature by 5-10 C)
v2 – your oven doesn't have a convection setting – put your pizza in the middle for half the cooking time then at the bottom for the remaining half, adjust time as needed for the following (I haven't cooked in an oven without convection for over 10 years so all of the muscle memory I would have shared is sadly gone)
One more important thing to note as a home cook – if you are new to quick pizza recipes it's very easy to cook the pizza while the yeast are still active and then don't cook the dough through. It's not dangerous (you'll maybe get some heartburn or mild indigestion) but it's not pleasant either. Your choices to combat that are:
1. Use exactly the amount of yeast you need for the resting time (expert mode)
2. Let the dough rest for an hour or two more (easy but requires planning)
3. Make sure to cook the dough through (easy once you develop a technique for it)
To anyone who sees this, I wish you lots of tasty homemade pizzas in the future! <3
$100 for 4 when you could’ve spent $50 at dominos for 4 Large pizzas and 4 sides deal 😂
It's not just the size. It's the amount of toppings as well. I worked in a Domino's here in NZ when they first opened. We had all Australian managers at the beginning(franchise requirement for starting in a new country). After a year they dropped the amount of cheese/protein per pizza by 10g. Our Aussie manager said that this was standard for starting in a new country. Start off heaps, slowly shrinking everything year after year. Now there's hardly anything on them at all. It's just puffy flat bread with sauce on it.
Wow, that’s not even close to what we get in Canada. Aussies are definitely getting ripped off.
I think its time we all admit that we secretly enjoy pineapple on pizza. When done right.
Just kidding pineapple on pizzas yuck lmao
here in montreal, canada pizza is always sold by size – 9", 12", &c. so they'll increase the price but they can't change the size, or at least if they do it'll be very clear.
does anyone else use a pizza stone or pizza steel?
Hey Andy.
As someone who worked at, Pizza Hut, Domino's and a local pizza joint back in the mid naughties (05/06), I can tell you they have 100% shrunk.
Back then the large pizza pan that we used to stretch pizzas to were 12" (dominos and the hut), and 13" at the local joint.
Now I understand that was 2 decades ago (yes I feel old 🤣) but they actually have shrunk since then.
And for those of us that like the math, that is a 30% reduction in pizza area, even though it's only a 2" reduction in diameter
Dominos in Australia is for the bin, it’s always a soggy mess and wtf is that mess on the lid? Crap build.
Pizza Hut is kicking goals with their pizzas in comparison, it’s not really that god but it’s better than domino’s.
I let my kids choose dinner most Friday nights they wanted dominoes the other night so I ordered a family size as it was the largest. It was literally the size of a normal large. Anywhere else you order a family it is big dominoes sucks, I could have easily eaten 2 of the family pizzas probably 3.
Hawaiian pizza is one of those things, I’d never order it but I’m also never disappointed when I’m at a party and it’s one of the choices.
wait.. Andys a kiwi?