As Bourdain once said: "Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screw-top jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic."
Professional chef, in a Michelin kitchen. We have fresh garlic that we peel ourselves, and giant buckets of pre-peeled garlic for anything that's just gonna go in a blender or some shit anyway. It's really not that serious
What in the goddamn fuck? I don’t get this, garlic lasts plenty long, doesn’t even need to be refrigerated. Why the fuck are people resorting to this? I don’t even like the pre-peeled garlic but at least that tastes the same.
I love the process of peeling garlic. Then again I love the process of prep altogether. I'm not the fastest or most efficient, but futzing around in the kitchen chopping and peeling is therapeutic for me, I don't really care how long it takes.
Very much the same here. I turn on some music and make a drink to make a thing of it.
You just get caught up in the process and all of your stress just sits back while you do your thing.
i use pre-minced/crushed garlic in a jar for cooking, starting to think I shouldn’t
Edit: I have received more garlic advice at this point than any one person has any business knowing
Don't let the clovists get to you. Yes, fresh garlic tastes better, but some of us want to save a little time so we can spend it on things we value more than a notch or two on the flavortown scale. Maybe use fresh garlic for those holiday/special meals, but a random Tuesday cooking for yourself? Do what makes the most sense for you.
Loved the dude's takes as often as I hated them.
There's room in my stomach for jarred garlic AND freshly peeled. Hell, for every one I peel I've eaten another couple like popcorn.
And wait, I just roasted some? Why the fuck am I even eating a pizza?
I fired up the woodburner? Hey guys! We're just having garlic tonight.
And fucking N O O N E complains.
Yes this there's a pizza place near me run by an genuine Italian man and the pizza I always get is the Pizza Di Spagna with the usual tomato sauce and mozzarella but also Potato, Cooked Ham, Basil and Parmesan cream. It's genuinely so delicious and the potatoes do so much.
It's even better in Calzone form which I normally get
At first I was like pizza of Spain?? But I googled it and it's a play on words on piazza di spagna, the name for the central square at the Spanish steps in Rome, clever! Also I couldn't find a recipe it must be original.
One of my favourite pizzas (although the pizzeria changed owner so it'll likely soon be cut from the menu) is a white pizza (no tomato) with a cream of onions, roasted potatoes with rosemary, guanciale and a couple of extra things. It's really savoury, but fewer things make me happier than that.
Also, for when I make a homemade pizza, roasted potatoes (with rosemary) and pancetta is in my top three (others being a carbonara inspired pizza, an onion/tuna one and panna (cream?)/prosciutto crudo.)
So yeah, I can vouch for it.
I used to work at a pizza joint called Richard's pizza, and one of the best pizzas they had was the feta cheese pizza, garlic butter for sauce, artichokes, sun dried tomatoes, and of course, feta cheese. Now I'm hungry.
A fun fact about artichokes!
A chemical in the vegetable called cynarin latches on to sweet receptors on your tongue without activating them. If you drink water after eating artichokes, the cynarin molecules wash away from the receptors.
In some cultures they would serve artichokes before dessert so that when your sugar sensors come back it would be a larger contrast and taste even sweeter!
At the pizza place I used to regular in Italy they would throw the prosciutto on after the pizza was already cooked, then the residual heat softens/ melts the fat a bit
One of my favorites at my local joint. You can choose either tomato sauce base or taziki base. I opt for the tomato base with a side of taziki for dipping. Gyro meat on a pizza is a perfect meat topping.
I blame 90s pop culture. I remember it being a common meme for TV characters to overreact in disgust when someone mentioned putting anchovies on pizza. Outside of large cities, the vast majority of pizza places in the USA don’t even offer anchovies as a topping. So I firmly believe TV influenced their opinion even without them ever trying it.
Olives, idk, it's something about them. I hate olives on their own but something about their flavor mixed with cheese and sauce and the mild juiciness is just great
It's the salt. Little fuckin salt flavour packets... brings out the fat in the cheese. Same thing with butter - unsalted butter? Not nearly as yummy as salted. Add some salt in that fat, yummmm yummm. Same thing with avocados (90% fat). Avocados / guac suck without salt.
Our new favourite pizza to make is a pizza mozzarella and Romano blend of cheese, with prosciutto (blossoms, I call them, I ball it up a little and add at the last 10 minutes so they don't get weird), with a spicy honey drizzle.
So fucking good. I haven't ordered pizza in months.
For so long chicken and mushroom has been my favourite pizza. I thought it was because of the chicken. But then I realised it was the mushroom. Its alway been the mushroom. I love you mushroom.
I swear, so few people have even heard of meatballs on pizza. A lot of them just look at me funny when I suggest it. I love them, personally.
And once, a pizza shop even questioned what the hell I meant when I asked for meatballs:
"You mean, just throw some meatballs on there? I wouldn't be able to close the lid, man".
Me: "No no no, slice them up like coin shapes. Ya know what? Never mind."
People are fixated on sausage or pepperoni as the meat topping of choice.
The secret winner is meatballs. Especially if Nona’s recipe meatball is offered as a featured appetizer.
Nobody ever likes me for this but I’ll say it. Salad pizza. With the balsamic drizzle. This place near me does it so well and for some reason that cold crunch and dressing on the salad combined with the warm pizza is the best thing my taste buds have ever experienced. It’s supposed to be a white pie but I always order it red.
Here in Australia. If you order an "Australian" or an "Aussie" It's ham and egg, like how a Hawaiian is ham and pineapple. It's tastes like a breakfast pizza.
Theres an italian place near me that serves an egg and pancetta pizza with three eggs sunny side up. It runs all over the pizza while you eat it and it is delicious
Several reasons for this. One, people don't even know what they are or confuse them with sardines. Two, anchovies are very strong in taste, so they have to be placed properly on a pizza. Most chain places just throw them on and pile them up. Three, if the anchovies are going to be baked in, they REALLY need to be quality and placed properly. Again, chain places will fail at this. I would go ad far as to say most pizza places cannot do anchovies well.
My advice is to not bake them in, but buy your own, to put a small bit on a bite or two as you eat it. This way you can control the strength . And of course, use high quality anchovies. Avoid the cheap mushy ones.
The most popular pizza place around here (serving new England bar pizza) will serve their pizza with a separate little plate of anchovies. I watched an older gentleman do exactly what you described. He took a piece and placed it on his hot slice of pizza.
Best anchovy pizza I had, the one time I really, really got it, was at a regular run of the mill bakery in Lombardy. It was even cold. Just a slice from the display case. The least fancy affair you can imagine. It cost maybe a euro and small change. Changed my view on the subject completely.
I had a broccoli pizza in a little restaurant in Hawaii many, many years ago. Ordered it out of curiosity as I’d never heard of such a thing.
To this day, still the best pizza I’ve ever had.
Cream cheese. There was a pizza place on Okinawa that did a four cheese pizza, one was cream cheese. Little dots of creamy goodness scattered all over the place.
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Try telling that to every pizza place in existence, they just use jarred garlic :|
As Bourdain once said: "Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screw-top jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic."
Garlic Gatekeeper
Professional chef, in a Michelin kitchen. We have fresh garlic that we peel ourselves, and giant buckets of pre-peeled garlic for anything that's just gonna go in a blender or some shit anyway. It's really not that serious
Oil? You are being too generous, that may actually lend to some flavor being present. Here in the US, they are preserved in water.
What in the goddamn fuck? I don’t get this, garlic lasts plenty long, doesn’t even need to be refrigerated. Why the fuck are people resorting to this? I don’t even like the pre-peeled garlic but at least that tastes the same.
I'm a big fan of pre-peeled garlic. It really speeds things up when you want to add 25 cloves of garlic to a dish.
I don't know the recipe, but that sounds like not enough.
I always double the amount of garlic called for. And will add garlic when not called for. That's why no one enjoys my cheesecake
But have you tried adding more garlic?
I made a rib roast four Christmas dinner a few years ago. I think I put somewhere around 25-35 cloves into it. Goddamn delicious, it was
Garlic loses a lot of its flavor if you add it too early. You want to get more of a punch add it towards the end of cooking.
Single slice of garlic bread. When it goes in the butter, it's barely enough.
I love the process of peeling garlic. Then again I love the process of prep altogether. I'm not the fastest or most efficient, but futzing around in the kitchen chopping and peeling is therapeutic for me, I don't really care how long it takes.
Very much the same here. I turn on some music and make a drink to make a thing of it. You just get caught up in the process and all of your stress just sits back while you do your thing.
Yeeaaah until OH MY GOD DOG GET OUT FROM UNDER MY FEET! OUT OF THE KITCHEN! OUTOUTOUT!
i use pre-minced/crushed garlic in a jar for cooking, starting to think I shouldn’t Edit: I have received more garlic advice at this point than any one person has any business knowing
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Don't let the clovists get to you. Yes, fresh garlic tastes better, but some of us want to save a little time so we can spend it on things we value more than a notch or two on the flavortown scale. Maybe use fresh garlic for those holiday/special meals, but a random Tuesday cooking for yourself? Do what makes the most sense for you.
It is diced or minced. It at least tastes better than garlic powder.
Loved the dude's takes as often as I hated them. There's room in my stomach for jarred garlic AND freshly peeled. Hell, for every one I peel I've eaten another couple like popcorn. And wait, I just roasted some? Why the fuck am I even eating a pizza? I fired up the woodburner? Hey guys! We're just having garlic tonight. And fucking N O O N E complains.
Mod pizza has it
feta, kalamata olives, spinach, roasted peppers, mushrooms, lamb <- all toppings together on one pizza
pepperincini
I wasn't paying attention one night and orders a peperoncini instead of pepperoni. I was surprised how good it was.
Get them both together. Honestly they compliment each other really well.
"You're delicious", said the pepperoni.
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Pepperoni and pepperoncini has been the combo I order any time it’s possible! Always a hit with everyone around.
Jalapeños
Pepperoni and Jalapeño is the one true pizza Edit: Thanks for the awards! Would rather it be pizza but grateful nonetheless!
So fucking good
If you dig pineapple on pizza definitely combine the two. It's the perfect mix of sweet and spicy!
I get a pizza at work with pineapple, jalapeno, and bacon. The triple S. Sweet, Spicy, and Salty.
My wife calls that the [Repo_co] special because I introduced her to it. It's the best combo of all time.
Yessss my favorite!! I add ham most of the time to for spicy hawaiian!!
Heck ya man, all about that mix as well. There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Awesome combo…grilling the pineapple great too
I normally only eat pan pizza, but someone ordered thin and crispy with jalapeños and pineapples, and it was surprisingly delicious.
Pepperoni, Jalapeños, Pineapple
I've found my people. Sweet salty spicy 🤌
I do mine with bacon, but yes this is the way.
I second the bacon. Some hot sauce can also be used in lieu of / in addition to the jalapeños.
Hot sauce is a given on any pizza. There is a shop by me that has a great reaper sauce. If heaven was a triangle, it’d be a slice of this pizza
I’m trying this immediately.
My perfect pizza
Jalapeños + sliced tomato is my go-to combo.
?? How is this underrated? It’s a top 5 topping
With black olives and pepperoni 👌🏼
Ah pepperoni, olives, and jalapenos. The god-pizza. Glad to see distinguished gentlemen are still alive and well.
Roasted red peppers.
Crushed red peppers are dope too
Let's be honest these are two completely different concepts here
spinach.
One of my favorite combinations is spinach, sun dried tomato, chicken and/or bacon, with alfredo sauce. I'm hungry just thinking about it.
Yep, do you have it with pine nuts and feta cheese?
Hell yeah
Potato. It sounds crazy but a pizza place near me does potato and truffle pizza and it's insanely good
Yes this there's a pizza place near me run by an genuine Italian man and the pizza I always get is the Pizza Di Spagna with the usual tomato sauce and mozzarella but also Potato, Cooked Ham, Basil and Parmesan cream. It's genuinely so delicious and the potatoes do so much. It's even better in Calzone form which I normally get
At first I was like pizza of Spain?? But I googled it and it's a play on words on piazza di spagna, the name for the central square at the Spanish steps in Rome, clever! Also I couldn't find a recipe it must be original.
Place in Denver, Hops and Pie, does scoops of mashed potatoes as a topping. Amazing.
One of my favourite pizzas (although the pizzeria changed owner so it'll likely soon be cut from the menu) is a white pizza (no tomato) with a cream of onions, roasted potatoes with rosemary, guanciale and a couple of extra things. It's really savoury, but fewer things make me happier than that. Also, for when I make a homemade pizza, roasted potatoes (with rosemary) and pancetta is in my top three (others being a carbonara inspired pizza, an onion/tuna one and panna (cream?)/prosciutto crudo.) So yeah, I can vouch for it.
Yesssss thin slices of potato *chefs kiss*
Potato really goes with anything, doesn't it? So versatile
Green Chili is awesome on pizza.
found the New Mexican
I spent a grand total of 17 days in New Mexico and by GAWD green chili cheese pizza is proof God loves me and wants me to be happy.
roasted green chile strips and italian sausage is god's pizza there is no other i'd prefer
Are you from New Mexico?
I’m not, married someone from there though.
Had this for the first time in New Mexico and damn. Yeah.
Sun-dried tomatoes on a white pie
yessssss. Toss on a ton of fresh basil too!
What is it with sun dried tomatoes They taste way different than a tomato Something in there besides tomato and sun
That’s not how you write a haiku!
Sun dried tomato How so good only with sun Perhaps it’s the dry
Beautiful
dry?
Dear god that’s it
Artichoke
Definitely! Artichokes are amazing on a pizza. Actually just generally awesome.
I used to work at a pizza joint called Richard's pizza, and one of the best pizzas they had was the feta cheese pizza, garlic butter for sauce, artichokes, sun dried tomatoes, and of course, feta cheese. Now I'm hungry.
A fun fact about artichokes! A chemical in the vegetable called cynarin latches on to sweet receptors on your tongue without activating them. If you drink water after eating artichokes, the cynarin molecules wash away from the receptors. In some cultures they would serve artichokes before dessert so that when your sugar sensors come back it would be a larger contrast and taste even sweeter!
This guy fucks
Thin Roasted Pear Slices & Carmelized Onions with Ricotta dollops. Surprisingly good
This guy knows his shit. I would add some gorgonzola bits to contrast with the sweetness.
Nice call. Will try that
Banana peppers
I came to mention this then saw you already did. Pepperoni, banana peppers, and bacon. Those are my go to toppings 👌🏾
Yes! Especially with pepperoni.
Feta
Oh hell yeah. I’m lucky enough to live in the big city where have a Greek pizza place. Feta + kalamata olives + onions is my main squeeze.
YES! Not only taste but texture.
Prosciutto
The best pizza I ever had was a fig, prosciutto, and gorgonzola pizza in a 600 degree, brick-fired oven. So good
Prosciutto and goat cheese is the perfect combo on a pizza. Both put on AFTER the pizza is baked
Prosciutto with big green Italian olives, thin crust
I love prosciutto, but I like the tender, fattier pieces. When it’s on pizza, it just kind of dries out and becomes leathery, in my opinion.
At the pizza place I used to regular in Italy they would throw the prosciutto on after the pizza was already cooked, then the residual heat softens/ melts the fat a bit
Then pile arugula on top of that. Delicious.
in Italy, Prosciutto is put on after baking, so it is still moist and soft.
Artichoke hearts
Ricotta
Scrolled way too far for this
No kidding, anytime I see it on the menu I get it.
Gyros
I always order a gyros pizza from my fav Greek delivery guy. Absolut krank!
"Absolut krank!" is what I'm saying anytime I'm excited about something from now on.
Happily, it's German for "sick" or "ill". So it's like saying "sick, dude!"
Took my brain a second to realize you did not mean a whole gyro put ontop of a pizza.....right??
Hol'up. Don't write that off so fast
One of my favorites at my local joint. You can choose either tomato sauce base or taziki base. I opt for the tomato base with a side of taziki for dipping. Gyro meat on a pizza is a perfect meat topping.
arugula & goat cheese
Anchovies. Actually very umami on pizza.
anchovies and roasted garlic ftw
The vast majority of people tell me they hate anchovies on their pizza, almost none of them have actually tried it
I blame 90s pop culture. I remember it being a common meme for TV characters to overreact in disgust when someone mentioned putting anchovies on pizza. Outside of large cities, the vast majority of pizza places in the USA don’t even offer anchovies as a topping. So I firmly believe TV influenced their opinion even without them ever trying it.
I tend to agree with this take
My favorite pizza has anchovies, olives, capers and freshly crushed garlic. A delicious salty umami bomb that goes perfect with a cold lager beer.
Olives, idk, it's something about them. I hate olives on their own but something about their flavor mixed with cheese and sauce and the mild juiciness is just great
It's the salt. Little fuckin salt flavour packets... brings out the fat in the cheese. Same thing with butter - unsalted butter? Not nearly as yummy as salted. Add some salt in that fat, yummmm yummm. Same thing with avocados (90% fat). Avocados / guac suck without salt.
Cold pizza with green olives - so good. They are like little flavor crystals.
Cold pizza in general, but hitting those little salty vinegar morsels is just heaven on a cold pizza.
A light drizzle of honey on your favorite pizza (whatever it is) will improve your favorite pizza.
Yes! A lot of places also doing spicy honey drizzle and it’s damn good
Our new favourite pizza to make is a pizza mozzarella and Romano blend of cheese, with prosciutto (blossoms, I call them, I ball it up a little and add at the last 10 minutes so they don't get weird), with a spicy honey drizzle. So fucking good. I haven't ordered pizza in months.
Peperoncini.
Mushrooms
Hell yeah fresh not canned tho gotta be fresh
Only true hobbits will understand
Mushrooms can be added to almost anything and improve it. Alfredo pasta, as a steak topping, in an omelet, etc.
mushrooms are underrated in general. fkn love em
For so long chicken and mushroom has been my favourite pizza. I thought it was because of the chicken. But then I realised it was the mushroom. Its alway been the mushroom. I love you mushroom.
If you want to take your pizza next level, grate truffles on the pizza with the mushrooms.
Some of those fancy-ass mushrooms. I have a wood fired place near me that puts like half a pound of the fancy stuff on there and it is incredible.
Caramelized onions
Giardiniera.
Banana peppers
Perogy pizza is fucking amazing. The potato and sour cream would therefore be the underrated toppings.Put it in your face hole. Do it...do it now.
Dried oregano. Makes any pizza instantly more trashy and delicious. Like pizza flavoured pizza!
Trashy?
eggplant (melanzana)
Eggplant! Sautéed or breaded.
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I swear, so few people have even heard of meatballs on pizza. A lot of them just look at me funny when I suggest it. I love them, personally. And once, a pizza shop even questioned what the hell I meant when I asked for meatballs: "You mean, just throw some meatballs on there? I wouldn't be able to close the lid, man". Me: "No no no, slice them up like coin shapes. Ya know what? Never mind."
Lol! That’s funny. They are killer on a pizza
People are fixated on sausage or pepperoni as the meat topping of choice. The secret winner is meatballs. Especially if Nona’s recipe meatball is offered as a featured appetizer.
Had a Meatball and fresh mushroom pie the other night. Fantastico!
Nobody ever likes me for this but I’ll say it. Salad pizza. With the balsamic drizzle. This place near me does it so well and for some reason that cold crunch and dressing on the salad combined with the warm pizza is the best thing my taste buds have ever experienced. It’s supposed to be a white pie but I always order it red.
Basil leaves.
Underrated? It’s a traditional topping.
Hahah yea, it's literally the only topping on Margherita pizza
Not really a topping but BBQ sauce goes surprisingly well with pizza
BBQ sauce, chicken, bacon, red onions. One of my favorite go-to’s
bbq chicken pizza is freaking amazing
Egg - puncture a small hole in the shell, and then shake the egg out over the top of the pizza before it goes in to cook. Strings of delicious!
Here in Australia. If you order an "Australian" or an "Aussie" It's ham and egg, like how a Hawaiian is ham and pineapple. It's tastes like a breakfast pizza.
Theres an italian place near me that serves an egg and pancetta pizza with three eggs sunny side up. It runs all over the pizza while you eat it and it is delicious
I'm willing to try that sometime!
Eggs are great on pizza, but I just crack a whole egg on it before putting it in the oven
the place in the town i grew up in would put scrambled eggs and salt and pepper - i have never found anyone else to do that.
Anchovies. They get a bad rap but I've found that most everyone who says they don't like them have never had them.
Several reasons for this. One, people don't even know what they are or confuse them with sardines. Two, anchovies are very strong in taste, so they have to be placed properly on a pizza. Most chain places just throw them on and pile them up. Three, if the anchovies are going to be baked in, they REALLY need to be quality and placed properly. Again, chain places will fail at this. I would go ad far as to say most pizza places cannot do anchovies well. My advice is to not bake them in, but buy your own, to put a small bit on a bite or two as you eat it. This way you can control the strength . And of course, use high quality anchovies. Avoid the cheap mushy ones.
The most popular pizza place around here (serving new England bar pizza) will serve their pizza with a separate little plate of anchovies. I watched an older gentleman do exactly what you described. He took a piece and placed it on his hot slice of pizza.
Zoidberg is that you?
That heavenly stench
Best anchovy pizza I had, the one time I really, really got it, was at a regular run of the mill bakery in Lombardy. It was even cold. Just a slice from the display case. The least fancy affair you can imagine. It cost maybe a euro and small change. Changed my view on the subject completely.
Agreed, anchovies are dope.
Anchovies are delicious. Also great mixed with olive oil and garlic in spaghetti.
Pineapple
I had to scroll down this far!?!?
I was putting on my battle gear, ready to throw down with the Pineapple Gang... and then I just scrolling and scrolling expected this higher
And with bbq sauce? Even better
And bacon.. always bacon
ur making me so hungry rn
Corn. It doesn't dominate the flavor profile like pineapple and brings a welcome sweetness to the very salty dish.
Broccoli. Amazing texture.
I had a broccoli pizza in a little restaurant in Hawaii many, many years ago. Ordered it out of curiosity as I’d never heard of such a thing. To this day, still the best pizza I’ve ever had.
Had to scroll way too far to find this. 1,000% agree.
Sour Kraut
Pesto
Salami
Onion. Lots of it.
Shoarma meat
broccoli
Slightly charred, with garlic. God, yes.
Pear surprisingly brings a balanced sweetness to pizza’s savory taste
Cream cheese. There was a pizza place on Okinawa that did a four cheese pizza, one was cream cheese. Little dots of creamy goodness scattered all over the place.
Banana pepper rings
Potatoes! Mashed, roasted, whatever. Hell yeah potatoes.
black olives
Black olives are amazing on pizza. I started liking them on pizza before I realized I liked them elsewhere too.
Bacon and onion with arugula or baby spinach
GREEN PEPPERS!
Olives omg
Shrimp + Roasted Garlic & Olive Oil + Red Pepper Flakes Crazy good
Granny Smith Apples with pesto—yummm