Anyone here know anything about...Wood Fired Pizza Ovens?

[CavLancer]

Not so spendy here in the Philippines where a worker is making between $5 to $7 a d a y. Plus I hope to have free fuel in compressed rice husk briquettes. I hope to offer a 10" cheese pie for less than you pay for a slice, but only local ingredients at that price. Might be $6 for motz, olive oil, that sort of stuff. Then a beer is maybe 65 cents...

 

[peter grimes]

I regularly pay $18 for a high quality Margherita pizza, wood fired.

I get slices when I'm working a lot, either cheapo 99cent slice or good quality for $2.50. I usually buy 2, plain. All thin crust. I tip very rarely. I consider a tip to be for table service only. Don't know if I'm common or not.

 

[Takhisis]

So you're actually going to establish a US-style pizza joint?

 

[CavLancer]

I regularly pay $18 for a high quality Margherita pizza, wood fired.

I get slices when I'm working a lot, either cheapo 99cent slice or good quality for $2.50. I usually buy 2, plain. All thin crust. I tip very rarely. I consider a tip to be for table service only. Don't know if I'm common or not.

Interesting they have 2 standards for pizza there. I am planning two standards as well, local ingredients and imported. I want locals who aren't rich to be able to afford to eat here, plus have pizzas that taste like home to my fellow foreigners.

I think that's common regarding tipping, but just realize the waitresses are paying tax on 15% of sales whether you tip or not. I know this because my wife is in the US working as a waitress and being taxed on $ she does not make. How the US has changed!

Yes Tak, that's the plan.

 

[Takhisis]

So, you're living in a tropical paradise, are investing in pizza, you're keeping your wife away. It also looks like the house is a big one.

How many CFCers would you be able to put up (with)? It's a completely uninterested question of course.

 

[CavLancer]

I'm very much looking forward to the wife coming home.

In answer, as many as can afford.

 

[FriendlyFire]

I regularly pay $18 for a high quality Margherita pizza, wood fired.

I get slices when I'm working a lot, either cheapo 99cent slice or good quality for $2.50. I usually buy 2, plain. All thin crust. I tip very rarely. I consider a tip to be for table service only. Don't know if I'm common or not.

Keep in mind the size of US $18 usd pizza vs a Aus sized $20 aud pizza. I would guess US pizza being at least 50% larger. I wish there was $1 pizza slices, the cheapest I have seen is $2 slice and that was at closing time when prices were all marked down. The slice is about half the size of a NY sized slice.

I should just say size the rest of the world uses

 

[peter grimes]

I think my pizzas are 14". Not positive. They're definitely not more than 16".

 

[CavLancer]

14"s are going to be our medium with 20" large. However I made the oven to handle 24" huge size but its hard to find trays that big. I'm working on it, but no big rush.

 

[onejayhawk]

14"s are going to be our medium with 20" large. However I made the oven to handle 24" huge size but its hard to find trays that big. I'm working on it, but no big rush.

Try paelle pans.

Do you deep fry much? I was thinking those starchy bananas you referred to would make great chips. You could salt them and serve with a fruit salsa.

Come to think of it, paella is the sort of dish that might go over. Here is a recipe at random
http://www.finecooking.com/recipes/classic-seafood-paella.aspx

J

 

[CavLancer]

Try paelle pans.

Do you deep fry much? I was thinking those starchy bananas you referred to would make great chips. You could salt them and serve with a fruit salsa.

Come to think of it, paella is the sort of dish that might go over. Here is a recipe at random
http://www.finecooking.com/recipes/classic-seafood-paella.aspx

J

Actually wasn't going to have a deep fryer, though thanks much for the recipe Jay. Instead of french fries I was thinking of potato salad as a side, I make a potato salad that has gotten good reviews.

Also for paelle pans, found a 24" one on amazon. Spendy though, I'm hoping for a pizza tray one of these days.

 

[Takhisis]

Rice with a fried banana and tomato sauce… the recipe sounded very unlikely but I tried it once in Spain and it was surprisingly good.

 

[peter grimes]

Here's what we had for dinner, since we're talking about Pizza and recipes

From Roberta's (located in Bushwick), but this is a temporary street food setup near Times Square. Beatrice and I came in to meet my wife on her break between shows. We had a little picnic in Bryant Park

From left to right:

Margherita - tomato sauce, basil, olive oil, house-made mozzarella

Bee Sting - spicy sopressatta, honey, crushed tomatos, HM mozzarella

SpeckenWolf -speck, oregano, crimini mushrooms, red onion, HM mozzarella

All wood fired, thin crust, 8" pizzas.

Tho' I think a white "pizza" isn't a pizza at all because to me a pizza has 3 requirements: crust, tomato sauce, cheese. Remove any of the 3 and you have something that, despite being delicious, I refuse to call "pizza"

 

[Takhisis]

Mr. grimes, I must ask an important question. How do you pronounce the 'a' in 'basil'? Your life at stake is.

 

[peter grimes]

It's not at all like that village in Switzerland.

 

[CavLancer]

Basel, basil, nasal, nozzle.

Here's what we had for dinner, since we're talking about Pizza and recipes

From Roberta's (located in Bushwick), but this is a temporary street food setup near Times Square. Beatrice and I came in to meet my wife on her break between shows. We had a little picnic in Bryant Park

From left to right:

Margherita - tomato sauce, basil, olive oil, house-made mozzarella

Bee Sting - spicy sopressatta, honey, crushed tomatos, HM mozzarella

SpeckenWolf -speck, oregano, crimini mushrooms, red onion, HM mozzarella

All wood fired, thin crust, 8" pizzas.

Tho' I think a white "pizza" isn't a pizza at all because to me a pizza has 3 requirements: crust, tomato sauce, cheese. Remove any of the 3 and you have something that, despite being delicious, I refuse to call "pizza"

Its a good definition in my view. Tomatoes are a must. I also wonder about the fanciful names that are being hung on pizzas these days as well. Whatever happened to descriptive names? If these pizzas were threads they might warrant an infraction.

 

[CavLancer]

Rice with a fried banana and tomato sauce… the recipe sounded very unlikely but I tried it once in Spain and it was surprisingly good.

I imagine in Spain it was called something reasonable. Perhaps even "May I recommend the rice with a fried banana and tomato sauce, sir?"

 

[Takhisis]

I don't even remember the name, actually. But I should try it. First I'll do fried sweet potatoes (the same as frying potatoes for fish'n'chips, but, well, with sweet potatoes).

 

[onejayhawk]

Isn't there a large Portuguese influence in Philippine cooking?

J

 

[Takhisis]

Until the US stole it, the archipelago was a Spanish colony.