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I am Tosk

In article >,
says...
>
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:34:43 -0600, "Pete C." >
> wrote:
>
> >
> >sf wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:09:04 -0600, "Pete C." >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >notbob wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Not to mention all frozen pizzas suck pond scum.
> >> >>
> >> >> nb
> >> >
> >> >Generally, yes. The refrigerated take-and-bake ones found in some
> >> >grocery deli departments are usually passable at least. But again, in
> >> >the time to bake you can readily cook a homemade meal. Indeed you can
> >> >even make homemade pizza in the time it takes to preheat the oven and
> >> >bake a frozen or take-and-bake pizza.
> >>
> >> If you take a *lot* of shortcuts.
> >
> >Such as?
> >
> >The only shortcut required to make home made pizza in the time required
> >to preheat and oven and bake a frozen one would be omitting most of the
> >rise time for the crust, which isn't a big deal since I only do thin
> >crust pizzas anyway.
> >
> >Turn on oven to preheat
> >Mix crust dough and let it rise / rest a bit
> >Prepare sauce and toppings
> >Roll / stretch crust
> >Brush crust with olive oil
> >Pre bake crust for a few minutes
> >Add toppings to crust
> >Back in oven a few minutes to melt cheese
> >Eat
>
> All that in 20 minutes? Wow, you're a regular whirling dervish. I
> won't get into the quality. My motto is: If you're going to eat crap,
> don't make it yourself.

You can say what you want but in this house there is no way I could make
a fresh pizza in the 4 minutes it takes to microwave one. At best it
would take me 15 minutes to prepare the fixins and another 5 to set up
the pizza, get out the stone, and then 20+ minutes to cook. Then figure
10 minutes minimum to clean up... So 45 minutes, or four minutes..
Hummmm. Not even close

And that's a normal thin crust which we rarely
if ever make. Like I said before, we make deep dish pizzas and they take
even longer.

Scotty