#105 - The Lazy Genius Makes Pizza Part 2

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Education, Arts

4.8 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

We’re continuing our pizza conversation this week by talking about cheese, toppings, sauce, tools, and how you bake it. If last week’s episode on pizza dough didn’t convince you I’m a nerd over pizza, this one will. I’m realizing I have so much to say that I could have an entire series or even whole separate podcast on pizza. I love it so much and keep learning every time I make it. I hope the more you make it, the more you’ll learn and love it, too! Links You May Find Helpful Jump over to listen to The Lazy Genius Makes Pizza (Part One) if you haven’t listened to that yet. If you want to take cues from my pizza sauce recipe, you can find it on the blog. Thinking about trying caramelized onions on your pizza? Here’s a recipe to make them in the crock pot and on the stovetop (I usually leave out the balsamic vinegar, but that’s just me). Since I make pizza almost every week, it’s important to me to have a pan I love. I use this cast iron pizza pan. My friend Michael believes his pizza steel is best, and my cooking sister Bri McKoy uses a pizza stone. Use whatever makes you happy. Having a pizza peel handy also makes pizza assembly a breeze. I use this wooden one (and store it with my cutting boards). They also make aluminum ones, so again, find what works best for you if you want to invest in one. And as I said last week, a bench scraper is one of the best tools to have in your kitchen. Amen. Bonus tip from Michael — how to make hot honey: Warm up honey in a little pan, add in chopped dried chiles, and warm that together for about 15 minutes on the stove. Then let it cool and put it back in a bottle. He drizzles that on pizzas when they come out of the oven or by the slice and swears by it. Download the transcript of this episode. This podcast is hosted by Kendra Adachi and executive produced by Kendra Adachi, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone! You are listening to the Lazy Genius podcast. I'm Kendra and I'm
0:06.3	here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the
0:09.6	things that don't. Today we're talking about pizza. It's episode 105. The Lazy
0:15.0	Genius makes pizza part two, which means we had part one last week. We talked
0:19.8	all about dough. I went a little deeper than I expected if I'm honest, but the
0:23.9	truth is I am really passionate about baking dough and pizza and all the things.
0:29.0	I surprised myself with how much I had to say. I hope it wasn't super annoying.
0:33.8	But be that as it may. We are going to dive into the next part of making pizza.
0:37.8	Cheese and toppings, sauce, tools, how you bake it, all the things. I am realizing I
0:43.8	have so much to say that I could have like an entire series or even in like a
0:48.1	whole separate podcast on pizza. I love it so much. And I keep learning every
0:52.4	time I make it, the more you make it, the more you'll learn too, which I think is a
0:56.4	huge part of the fun. Maybe you'll become a pizza nerd like I am. So we are
1:00.3	going to talk sauce, cheese, toppings, tools, baking, and then time savers in that
1:07.0	order. Let's start with sauce. You can buy pizza sauce from a store and be
1:11.6	in great shape. There's no shame in not making your homemade pizza completely
1:16.4	from scratch. When I actually when I say homemade, I really just mean that you
1:20.8	like assemble it and bake it at home. Your dough could be from like a cool,
1:24.5	local pizza place. The sauce is from a jar. The toppings were already cooked from
1:29.8	like a little deli or a grocery store salad bar you picked up. It's still homemade
1:34.7	because you made it at home. So you don't have to make your own sauce. Now if you
1:38.6	want to, if you want to make red sauce, I will put kind of my recipes, it's
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