I really wanted to make a deep dish pizza for our D-themed day at
Slashfood, not only because it starts with the letter
"D," but because I have never made one before. I really only like thin crust pizzas. I generally
find deep dish pizza to be too gooey, with a soggy crust and far too much cheese and sauce ladled in. It is
inconvenient to eat because you cannot - certainly not easily, in any event - pick up a slice and eat it from your
hands, as you can with thinner pizzas. However, I thought I should still give it a try.
I took my homemade dough and pressed it into the pan. It turned out not to be enough dough to reach more than an inch up the sides of the pan. I covered it in cheese, followed by sausage, onions and sauce and topped it with a sprinkle of parmesan before baking. There were no problems filling the pie, but I still was not thrilled with the softness of the bottom of the pizza. I assumed that the cheese was put on the bottom to insulate the crust in some way and perhaps it did, just not enough for my tastes. Overall, I'm glad that due to the size of my dough I was unable to really fill my pizza to proper deep-dish depth. Don't get me wrong: the pie tasted good. It still had a fairly crisp outer crust, but I know that that would not have lasted with higher sides and another cup of sauce ladled into the pizza. Deep dish is just not my cup of tea. Or slice of pizza.
[Photo by Nicole Weston]
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