NY Pizza: it IS really all about the water

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Ich... his pizza's look disgusting.

It's the classic Neapolitan style, which some feel is the end-all-be-all.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: CKent

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: amdhunter
Isn't NYC tap rated the highest in the world? I absolutely love the tap water in my apartment.

On another note, New Jersey water is horrible. It was a sweet rotten taste to it. I remember a few years back my neice started to cry because her mother was making her drink it...lol

You say "New Jersey water" as if all water from NJ would taste the same. Please tell me you don't think all water from NJ tastes the same.

Smell influences taste to a great degree, so...

Let me know when you visit the areas of NJ that aren't so close to NYC or Philly.

 

[blahblah99]

Originally posted by: Ns1
In case you haven't seen food detectives...



They compared 3 identical pizzas (same guy made all 3), with LA water, CHI water, and NY water.

In a blind taste test, they choose the one made with NY water as the best.


Probably because LA gets the water shipped in, CHI pumps it in from lake MI, and NY water gets filtered through rock and gets carried to NY by river.

Thats because NY's got the best CULTURE.

 

[evident]

NY is so fucking full of itself. i'm not willing to pay 200% for everything there, including nights out, pizza and everything just to say omfg i was in ny!!!! what a waste of $


pizza anywhere is can be good or shitty. it's not like a cheesesteak where only philly/south jersey knows how to make a decent one.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: dbk
sound like bullshizzle to me.

I wouldn't be so sure... I grew up in western NY on well water. Our well was about 185' deep, spring fed. Bedrock in that area is granite with a lot of limestone... iron and calcium galore. My father eventually put a filter on the tank, and we would change the filter probably every month or two because it would become so full of sediment (mostly rust) it would actually kill the water pressure. Yeah... it was some seriously hard water.

But... I can hardly drink water the same way anymore, particularly from public supplies. I've lived in various parts of NY, FL, and most recently in AL, and spent a good amount of time in MA too... and let me tell you, there is nothing like a glass of straight-from-the-tap ice cold well water.

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
the pizza I make is more delicious than anything I've ever bought from a vendor in any city. It's all in the sauce. Fresh tomatoes + garlic + olive oil + sugar. Keep it simple. Also, start the heat in the pan with just the oil, then add the garlic bits to let them fry for a bit, then put in the tomato chunks and wait for it to cook down. mmmmmm.

If you have extra sauce and leftover toppings just throw it together and freeze in a jar, it works as spaghetti sauce.

I know we've all discussed this before, and I'm a huge proponent of quality in the home kitchen; however, you're not duplicating the same effort at the better pizza houses no matter what you do unless you're sporting an oven that can reach the same temperatures.

Atlanta has a local guy that's a bit nutty about pizza, and he went as far as tweaking his home oven to reach the right temperatures. He used to give everyone tastes out of his house before launching the restaurant.

And, for a lot of people, myself included, fresh tomatoes doesn't necessarily cut it for a pizza sauce. What you're describing is basically the recipe for a simple marinara.

Ich... his pizza's look disgusting.

:Q


mmm...


I get goosebumps looking at this. seriously.

 

[OCGuy]

Wow...retarded.


They could have made 3 different pizzas with the same ingredients, and they would have picked a winner.



Human mind = weak.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: evident
NY is so fucking full of itself. i'm not willing to pay 200% for everything there, including nights out, pizza and everything just to say omfg i was in ny!!!! what a waste of $


pizza anywhere is can be good or shitty. it's not like a cheesesteak where only philly/south jersey knows how to make a decent one.

This is the idea that is funny. Same meat, same cheese whiz, same bread...it is all the fucking same.

It is the weak human mind that makes you think that the same exact fucking thing is better in once place over another.

 

[state 08]

however many people tested it on the show, whether it was just the host, or maybe 5 or so more ppl, the sample size is far to small to make any concrete conclusion.

I'm just assuming they didn't bother having population size be greater than a 100.

Even then,

I want to see a regression analysis with other x variables like: location, amt of pizza eaten per year, etc...

 

[The Boston Dangler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfPAjUvvnIc

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: OCguy

Human mind = weaksauce.

mmmm...

 

[fbrdphreak]

I guess NY has to have *some* claim to fame. Water must be it.

 

[natto fire]

Well, at least it is something you can quantify, and not entirely subjective. Oh wait...

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Ich... his pizza's look disgusting.

It's the classic Neapolitan style, which some feel is the end-all-be-all.

You mean to tell me burnt pizza with no cheese is "the in thing"? I'll pass.

 

[evident]

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: evident
NY is so fucking full of itself. i'm not willing to pay 200% for everything there, including nights out, pizza and everything just to say omfg i was in ny!!!! what a waste of $


pizza anywhere is can be good or shitty. it's not like a cheesesteak where only philly/south jersey knows how to make a decent one.

This is the idea that is funny. Same meat, same cheese whiz, same bread...it is all the fucking same.

It is the weak human mind that makes you think that the same exact fucking thing is better in once place over another.

cheese steak is actually true though, for some reason no one outside of the philly area knows how to make one. either that or every single place i've been to thats not philly makes a bad cheesesteak. good pizza can be had anywhere

 

[TwiceOver]

No wonder Texas isn't known for making pizzas... Their water SUCKS!

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: Ns1
NY water gets filtered through rock and gets carried to NY by river.

The NYC water supply is drawn mostly from reservoirs in the Catskills and the Delaware river then piped down into the city through aqueducts. What is notable about their water is that no filtration process is used and only chlorine gets added to kill microorganisms.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: evident

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: evident
NY is so fucking full of itself. i'm not willing to pay 200% for everything there, including nights out, pizza and everything just to say omfg i was in ny!!!! what a waste of $


pizza anywhere is can be good or shitty. it's not like a cheesesteak where only philly/south jersey knows how to make a decent one.

This is the idea that is funny. Same meat, same cheese whiz, same bread...it is all the fucking same.

It is the weak human mind that makes you think that the same exact fucking thing is better in once place over another.

cheese steak is actually true though, for some reason no one outside of the philly area knows how to make one. either that or every single place i've been to thats not philly makes a bad cheesesteak. good pizza can be had anywhere

I've spent significant amounts of time living on the west coast and in pennsylvania and feel pretty comfortable saying that is completely not true.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Ns1
NY water gets filtered through rock and gets carried to NY by river.

The NYC water supply is drawn mostly from reservoirs in the Catskills and the Delaware river then piped down into the city through aqueducts. What is notable about their water is that no filtration process is used and only chlorine gets added to kill microorganisms.

when the aging aqueducts fail the city is over.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Ns1
NY water gets filtered through rock and gets carried to NY by river.

The NYC water supply is drawn mostly from reservoirs in the Catskills and the Delaware river then piped down into the city through aqueducts. What is notable about their water is that no filtration process is used and only chlorine gets added to kill microorganisms.

when the aging aqueducts fail the city is over.

That's one of the reasons they're building the 3rd water tunnel. When they finish stage 2 of it they can shut down tunnel #1 (went online 1917) for a half billion dollar repair.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: evident

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: evident
NY is so fucking full of itself. i'm not willing to pay 200% for everything there, including nights out, pizza and everything just to say omfg i was in ny!!!! what a waste of $


pizza anywhere is can be good or shitty. it's not like a cheesesteak where only philly/south jersey knows how to make a decent one.

This is the idea that is funny. Same meat, same cheese whiz, same bread...it is all the fucking same.

It is the weak human mind that makes you think that the same exact fucking thing is better in once place over another.

cheese steak is actually true though, for some reason no one outside of the philly area knows how to make one. either that or every single place i've been to thats not philly makes a bad cheesesteak. good pizza can be had anywhere

This is certainly one of the dumber things I've read this fine morning.

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Ns1
NY water gets filtered through rock and gets carried to NY by river.

The NYC water supply is drawn mostly from reservoirs in the Catskills and the Delaware river then piped down into the city through aqueducts. What is notable about their water is that no filtration process is used and only chlorine gets added to kill microorganisms.

when the aging aqueducts fail the city is over.

oops, there's another one.

 

[lokiju]

I saw it last night and said to my wife it was lame they didn't do blind answers.

Have everyone taste it then write down their answer without sharing their answer with anyone else and then see what the results were.

First guy says "I think it's B" and of course all the other guys follow suit.

Now of course it is possible that was the actual case, but there's also a good chance that the first person answer influenced the others.

 

[darkxshade]

The things you say about other peoples water... is racist :|

 

[evident]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: evident

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: evident
NY is so fucking full of itself. i'm not willing to pay 200% for everything there, including nights out, pizza and everything just to say omfg i was in ny!!!! what a waste of $


pizza anywhere is can be good or shitty. it's not like a cheesesteak where only philly/south jersey knows how to make a decent one.

This is the idea that is funny. Same meat, same cheese whiz, same bread...it is all the fucking same.

It is the weak human mind that makes you think that the same exact fucking thing is better in once place over another.

cheese steak is actually true though, for some reason no one outside of the philly area knows how to make one. either that or every single place i've been to thats not philly makes a bad cheesesteak. good pizza can be had anywhere

I've spent significant amounts of time living on the west coast and in pennsylvania and feel pretty comfortable saying that is completely not true.

really? have i been spoiled with the blessings of good pizza being readily available to me all my life? i've had decent pizza in just about every city i've been to in the US. i havent been to TOO many cities, but i was always able to find a decent slice.

 

[Regs]

I think it's all in your head. Like when food taste differently down the Jersey Shore with the old salt water air myth.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: Regs
I think it's all in your head. Like when food taste differently down the Jersey Shore with the old salt water air myth.

That's a nice thought except none of them knew what pizza they were tasting.