Fresh Pizza Crisis

[silver-fox]

SWMBO says you cant cook fresh pizza on a boat cos the oven doesn't get hot enough. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

I really like pizza /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Please tell me this aint true ... or there is some work around otherwise I shall have to either

(a) call the whole liveaboard thing off

or

(b) restrict cruising to the Italian coast

I am sure there are forumites out there enjoying top class pizzas, a cool beer and watching the sun go down even as I write. Please share your pizza production secrets and avert a major crisis.

 

[sarabande]

There's a third logical alternative, and it involves your SWMBO and legal expenses more costly than a decent oven.

Seems that 400 degrees F is the required temp.

 

[MapisM]

Sorry, but I must second your swmbo viewpoint - not just for a matter of temperature, actually.
A perfect pizza must be cooked in a wood oven, can't imagine how to arrange that on a boat...
...though I guess that some megayacht builders would be glad to deliver it!

 

[sarabande]

Oven is fired by wood, surely ? I know a couple of motor- sailors which have woodfired heaters with a panel on top. Could be used to heat up a metal box to cook the pizza in.

Small gas ovens don't really work for pizzas because they produce too much water vapour. We need Riggy to give the professional view.

 

[roly_voya]

This is not a problem - Although pizza is a relitively new idea, I think developed by Italia emigreis to USA and then brought bak to Italy, or at least thats what I heard. Anyway ppiont is it is based on a traditional oven flat bread. This is baked on the floor of a traditional oven, so hot surfice to give bottem heat whith hot air over the top and very dry. All you need to do is recreat that effect. To do this take a biscuit tin, place a slab of steel or iron or even stone in the bottem and place on a heat source. Would definatly work on a fire or BBQ, also on taylors stove but you need to check if your gas rings get hot enough. Just put an oven thermometer (available from good kitchen shops) in the tin, turn gas up full and check temp after 20min. Adjust flame if required then place pizza or any other bread on the slab. If you want real authentic tast then a few wood chips in the bottem with give it that wood oven flavour.

PS - a standard metal biscuit tin is ideal and cheap (they do burn though after a while) but any metal tin will do as long as its not to tight a seal as pressure needs to equalise!! The secret is in the slab which holds the heat and evens it out so the bread don't burn.

See all you needed was a boy scout - I learnt to make these for my 'camp cooks badge'

 

[Poignard]

Quote:

Re: Making Bread aboard [Re: StevenJMorgan]
#1150885 - Fri Sep 01 2006 00:10 Edit Reply Quote Quick Reply

Easiest bread to make is pizza.

8oz bread flour
1 egg
sachet of yeast (the easy stuff - don't need to leave it to stand)
3 fl oz warm water
salt - more than you think.

mix it, nead it (until your nails are clean), leave it to stand for an hour in a plastic bag in the sun (?).

Then flatten it, add topping and bung in the oven for 15 - 20 mins.

Easy peasy - and no risk that it won't rise 'cos it's not supposed to

:Unquote
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This was posted by "Ruffles" last year.

 

[tobble]

it may seem like travesty, but you could make a decent sized pizza in a small oven if it's rectangular to fit the oven rather than circular. I suppose the increase in crust:topping ratio could be a point for debate though...

 

[Poignard]

A square meal?

 

[Gerry]

Get a Magma or similar gas fired bar b q. Must be the kettle type with a dome lid. Buy a crepe tray from calor gas, just fits the small size magma. I regularly cook pizza using this combination and the result is Fabulous!!

 

[silver-fox]

Thanks everyone, pizza crisis averted with 2 or 3 workarounds and some sage advice from a divorce lawyer...what a forum

Watch this space for news on the silver fox special onboard wood chip flavoured pizza

 

[trouville]

No problem!And the benifit of pizzas made aboard are that they can be rolled very thin!
So your ovens not hot enough?? Your at sea and MUST have a pizza(God knows why salad and fish are far healthier and easier)Just make a small metal box about 14 inches round or square and just 3 inches high with a false bottem.that is a second botten just one half inch below the oven bottem with lots of 5mm holes

Put that on your Origo. petrol or gas cooker and let it heat for about 10 minets rolle the pizza pate very thin about one eighth inch thick with corn flour on the bottem.add tomatoe *pesto* that you have left over when you make consommie with ripe tomatoses you have been given/found left over at the open market

Crush garlic in a pesel and morter with a bit of parmisan cheese or leftover cheese ends add thjat to the tomateo rest and smeer on to the pizza pate then cheese and anything else you want

Put into DIY oven and bake untill the cheese has melted and the pate is golden brown perhaps 15 mins

You dont need 400 degrees just heat time and patents.My boat pizzas are always very welcome,in frd up with them!!

The secret is to make the pate thin iveno battery have to go now bye

 

[Dragonfly]

get a pizza stone to fit your oven and heat it...voila perfect crust! Or buy a pizza oven /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif we have an electric one cheating i know!

 

[lille_bee]

Let this be a lesson to all you peeps thinking of buying a liveaboard: buy a fifteen-year-old second-hand Moody and your biggest problem will be... how to cook a decent pizza!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Auspicious]

I liveaboard in Annapolis, MD USA (at the moment). The delivery fellow brings the pizza, I put the slices on baking sheets in the oven to stay warm, and eat. Works great. In some local anchorages, the delivery guys will actually come to a local public dock so I can dinghy in to collect the pizza.

<grin>

Probably not a helpful answer, but the pizza is good.

 

[lille_bee]

Those very nice people at "Il Sapore" pizzeria in Nidri will also deliver to the Athos pontoon or the town quay, if all else fails... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif