Italian Physicists Wrote a 'Perfect Pizza' Equation, Because Not All Heroes Wear Capes

[Renae]

[FONT=&quot]If you'd like to eat the world's most scientifically perfect pizza, you have two options: One, fly to Rome and order a Margherita pizza fresh from the brick oven; or, two, solve a long [/FONT]thermodynamic[FONT=&quot] equation to simulate that glorious Italian pizza in your pathetic electric oven at home.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]That's the basic premise of a new paper titled "[/FONT]The Physics of Baking Good Pizza[FONT=&quot]," published earlier this year in the preprint journal arXiv. In the mouth-watering study, two physicists (Andrey Varlamov of the Institute of Superconductors, Oxides and Other Innovative Materials and Devices in Rome and Andreas Glatz of Northern Illinois University) and one food anthropologist (Sergio Grasso, an author and filmmaker based in Rome) recall the scientifically unassailable pizzas they sampled while the three were working in Rome.[/FONT]

https://www.livescience.com/64016-physics-of-perfect-pizza.html

That, was a good read.

 

[justabubba]

have been wanting to try to bake a pizza in my wife's kiln
but did not know exactly 625 degrees for 120 seconds is the key
might use a pizza stone heated while centered atop a kiln shelf
will report back when i make my first trial effort ... while she is out of the house to not discourage my use of her kiln for baking

 

[JANFU]

have been wanting to try to bake a pizza in my wife's kiln
but did not know exactly 625 degrees for 120 seconds is the key
might use a pizza stone heated while centered atop a kiln shelf
will report back when i make my first trial effort ... while she is out of the house to not discourage my use of her kiln for baking

That Pizza best turn out.

 

[ecofarm]

Anthropologist?! Fake science!!

 

[Mach]

It's true that some at-home methods just don't cut it. Have to find one that works, and go for that instead.

They are also correct that a good wood fired pizza with a beer is timeless. We use to go to a local brewery/restaurant that has great wood fired/brick oven pizzas (margarita I always get), and this was back before there were 1001 microbrews at our fingertips. The combination of that micro-brew on tap, and that pizza...whew....I missed a lot of opportunities to chat up the girls with us at the table because I was too busy making goo-goo eyes at the pizza and beer. Yeah sure, that band's OK, but hey...look at the stretch of this cheese. I'm stuffed guys, I'll catch up with ya'll next time, I'm turning in early.

Best pizza locally is not a wood-fired though, and it's a masterpiece. I think they put crack in it, I asked to see the kitchen to confirm...the owner insists it's more than most American pizzas are so bad, that it's easy to stand out. I told him I'd say that too if I were putting crack in pizza.

I recently tried a supposedly authentic, wood fired Neapolitan pizza, highly rated near me, and I was not impressed. I think the field is too large these days and too many artists have perfected too many varieties to settle on any one. The student becomes the master at some point, if the master was any good, as it should be.

 

[Gaius46]

have been wanting to try to bake a pizza in my wife's kiln
but did not know exactly 625 degrees for 120 seconds is the key
might use a pizza stone heated while centered atop a kiln shelf
will report back when i make my first trial effort ... while she is out of the house to not discourage my use of her kiln for baking

I don’t think most home ovens can get to 625 degrees. I know mine is hard pressed to get to 500.

With a stone I usually have to bake the pizza for 5-6 minutes.

 

[GDViking]

have been wanting to try to bake a pizza in my wife's kiln
but did not know exactly 625 degrees for 120 seconds is the key
might use a pizza stone heated while centered atop a kiln shelf
will report back when i make my first trial effort ... while she is out of the house to not discourage my use of her kiln for baking

I have known trappers who clean their taps in the dishwasher when the wife is not home.

When caught , divorce is often brought up, so proceed with caution...:lol:

 

[PoS]

Well of course anyone with a specially designed brick oven will make a superior pizza, thats just a given.