Is it only Americans that call a pizza 'pie'? As an Australian it sounds wrong, very wrong - a pie has dished sides and filling, not just topping.
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Pizza Physics: Why Brick Ovens Bake the Perfect Italian-Style Pie
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#32The self cleaning cycle on an electric oven is close to 1000 degrees, and can be used to cook pizza: http://staff.washington.edu/freitz/pizza/clean_cycle_pizza.h...
I now really want to try this but I'm scared of causing a fire. :D
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#33> The ideal Italian pizza, be it Neapolitan or Roman, has a crisp crust flecked with dark spots
That might be true of Naples, but definitely not Rome. The perfect Roman pizza is rectangular focaccia style.
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#34Is it only Americans that call a pizza 'pie'? As an Australian it sounds wrong, very wrong - a pie has dished sides and filling, not just topping.
I would qualify that by saying that only in some areas of the US is a pizza called a pie. I never heard that term until I was an adult. I would say it's probably limited to the northeast and perhaps Chicago.
Lifelong Chicagoan, we never use the word pie. That's a New York / east coast thing.
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#35So, this doesn't work by itself in most setups (it won't heat the top and the bottom of the pizza at the same time), but I've seen a really cool trick used: a plate of silicon carbide in a microwave oven absorbs microwaves and turns them into heat (just like food, but it can withstand much higher temperatures). This can reach extremely high temperatures (IIRC, 800C+), hot enough to smelt tin.
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#36Is it only Americans that call a pizza 'pie'? As an Australian it sounds wrong, very wrong - a pie has dished sides and filling, not just topping.
New Yawker here: It's mainly a NY thing (and probably throughout the northeast) used to describe a whole pizza vs individual slices. Though it's rare to hear someone use the phrase "pizza pie" as it gets shortened to "pie". When I order pizza I always ask "gimme a pie to go" and I get a whole pizza.
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#37Is it only Americans that call a pizza 'pie'? As an Australian it sounds wrong, very wrong - a pie has dished sides and filling, not just topping.
pizza means pie in italian https://www.etymonline.com/word/pizza
As an Italian, I've never heard anyone use "pizza" as a synonym for pie, which is "torta".
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No different than any place that allows you to have a grill at a similar location, and since there are never going to be flare-ups or similar issues it is actually safer than those items; for CA residents you need a concrete or stucco balcony, no wood. I use mine in my English garden (back yard) but it is portable enough for lots of different locations.
Uunis will absolutely flare up. That's the whole reason they tell you to not stand near the back of it when in use.
Hasn't happened to me in the past two years of use, but I guess YMMV.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
pizza means pie in italian https://www.etymonline.com/word/pizza
As an Italian, I've never heard anyone use "pizza" as a synonym for pie, which is "torta".
Uhoh, I always thought torta was a sandwich. That is what I order from a local Mexican restaurant... The joy of overloaded words.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
pizza means pie in italian https://www.etymonline.com/word/pizza
As an Italian, I've never heard anyone use "pizza" as a synonym for pie, which is "torta".
Can't say I've ever bothered to look up pizza in a dictionary before, but here we are.
dictionary.com has this to say about the word pizza: a flat, open-faced baked pie of Italian origin, consisting of a thin layer of bread dough topped with spiced tomato sauce and cheese, often garnished with anchovies, sausage slices, mushrooms, etc.
And the dictionary that comes with MacOS claims the origin of the word pizza is Italian, litterally 'pie'.