Slices of New York-style pizza
A supreme-style pizza
Frozen versions
A wrapped frozen pizza
Pizza is available frozen, as round traditional pizzas or in portion-size pieces.
Methods have been developed to overcome challenges such as preventing the
sauce from combining with the dough and producing a crust that can be frozen and
reheated without becoming rigid. Modified corn starch is commonly used as a
moisture barrier between the sauce and crust. Traditionally the dough is partially
baked and other ingredients are also sometimes precooked. There are frozen pizzas
with raw ingredients and self-rising crusts. A form of uncooked pizza is available
from take and bake pizzerias. This pizza is created fresh using raw ingredients, then
sold to customers to bake in their own ovens or microwave ovens. Another approach
is using a fresh dough, sold with sauce and basic ingredients, to complete before
baking in oven.
Health matters
Detriments
Some mass-produced pizzas by food chains have been criticized as having an
unhealthy balance of ingredients. Pizza can be high in salt, fat and calories. There
are concerns about negative health effects.
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Food chains, such as Pizza Hut, have
come under criticism
[when?]
for the high salt content of some of their meals, which
were found to contain more than twice the daily recommended amount of salt for an
adult.
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Records
The largest pizza was at the Norwood Pick 'n Pay hypermarket
in Johannesburg, South Africa. According to the Guinness Book of Records the
pizza was 37.4 meters (122 feet 8 inches) in diameter and was made using
500 kg of flour, 800 kg of cheese and 900 kg of tomato puree. This was
accomplished on December 8, 1990.
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The most expensive pizza was made by the restaurateur Domenico Crolla, and
included toppings such as sunblush-tomato sauce, Scottish smoked salmon,
medallions ofvenison, edible gold, lobster marinated in the
finest cognac and champagne-soaked caviar. The pizza was auctioned for
charity, raising 2,150.
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Similar dishes
A tarte flambe
"Farinata" or "cecina".
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A Ligurian (farinata) and Tuscan (cecina) regional dish
made from chickpea flour, water, salt and olive oil. Also called Socca in
the Provence region of France. Often baked in a brick oven, and typically
weighed and sold by the slice.
The Alsatian Flammekueche
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German: Flammkuchen. French: Tarte flambe
is a thin disc of dough covered in crme frache, onions, and bacon.
The Macedonian Pastrmajlija is a bread pie made from dough and meat. It is
usually oval-shaped with chopped meat on top of it.
The Anatolian Lahmacun (Arabic: lam bi'ajn; Armenian: lahmajoun;
also Armenian pizza or Turkish pizza) is a meat-topped dough round. The
bread is very thin; the layer of meat often includes chopped vegetables.
The Levantine Manakish (Arabic: ma'ujnt) and Sfiha (Arabic: lam bi'ajn;
also Arab pizza) are dishes similar to pizza.
The Provenal Pissaladire is similar to an Italian pizza, with a slightly thicker
crust and a topping of cooked onions, anchovies, and olives.
Calzone and stromboli are similar dishes (a calzone is traditionally half-moon-
shaped, while a stromboli is tube-shaped) that are often made of pizza dough
rolled or folded around a filling.
Garlic fingers is an Atlantic Canadian dish, similar to a pizza in shape and size,
and made with similar dough. It is garnished with melted butter, garlic, cheese,
and sometimes bacon.
See also
Food portal
Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba a pizzeria in Naples, Italy, which is widely believed to
be the world's first pizzeria
List of pizza chains
Pizza cheese
Pizza delivery
Pizza farm
Pizza saver
Pizza theorem