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[quote author=ferrari link=topic=10034.msg133528#msg133528 date=1444364826]
I don't understand this Detroit style, Chicago style, New York style nonsense.  Pizza is pizza.  If it takes more than 90 seconds to cook it it ain't pizza.  If it is loaded with sauce, pineapple, artichokes, kale salad, whatever, it ain't pizza.  Call it something else.  Maybe it's delicious, but it ain't pizza.

http://ny.eater.com/2014/3/20/6261635/a-...zza-styles

New York has Neapolitan-American pizza which is pretty close to the original, except cooked in a coal-fired instead of a wood-fired oven, and New York style pizza, which is cooked in a gas oven, and does take longer to cook.

BC
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The funny thing is this.  Many pizza ovens in Italy are wood fired but the smoke never reaches the pizza.  Many families I have stayed with have pizza ovens in the yard, made of stone or brick.  There is a firebox below and an oven above, open in the front.  The heat is intense.  We have also cooked chicken in them, sauces, etc.  no smoke flavor, just extreme, rapid heat.  Gotta watch the chicken.  Italian pizza don't taste so smoke.  Wood fired doesn't matter as long as the heat is extreme.

[Rally]

[quote author=ferrari link=topic=10034.msg133528#msg133528 date=1444364826]
I don't understand this Detroit style, Chicago style, New York style nonsense.  Pizza is pizza.  If it takes more than 90 seconds to cook it it ain't pizza.  If it is loaded with sauce, pineapple, artichokes, kale salad, whatever, it ain't pizza.  Call it something else.  Maybe it's delicious, but it ain't pizza.

http://ny.eater.com/2014/3/20/6261635/a-...zza-styles

New York has Neapolitan-American pizza which is pretty close to the original, except cooked in a coal-fired instead of a wood-fired oven, and New York style pizza, which is cooked in a gas oven, and does take longer to cook.

BC
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The funny thing is this.  Many pizza ovens in Italy are wood fired but the smoke never reaches the pizza.  Many families I have stayed with have pizza ovens in the yard, made of stone or brick.  There is a firebox below and an oven above, open in the front.  The heat is intense.  We have also cooked chicken in them, sauces, etc.  no smoke flavor, just extreme, rapid heat.  Gotta watch the chicken.  Italian pizza don't taste so smoke.  Wood fired doesn't matter as long as the heat is extreme.