Category archives: Actuality

The Pizza Baby in the Pizzeria
Actuality

The Pizza Baby in the Pizzeria

The Pizza Baby in the Pizzeria. Baby pizza is not in pizzeria. This is the complaint received from a consumer association a few weeks ago.

It's true, there are very few pizzerias that churn out baby-sized pizzas in Italy. Almost all of them are located in the north of our beautiful country

Because you can't find pizza baby

Unfortunately, in southern Italy there is the discipline of Neapolitan pizza, a standard of weight of the balls is used which varies from 200 to 280 grams.

This is the reason why you cannot find a smaller sized pizza. But even in northern Italy it is not at all easy to find a baby pizza on the pizza menu.

The Pizza Baby in the Pizzeria

Until now this seems to have never been a problem, usually the father and mother cut a wedge which is usually enough for the baby, who seems to be more attracted to fries with ketchup or mayonnaise, or from a hamburger given the young age.

It is really difficult to be able to please all customers since everyone has their own tastes and habits.

Conclusions on pizza baby

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Pizza and Figs Pizza with Pineapple Pizza With Pata Negra
Actuality

Pizza and Figs Pizza with Pineapple Pizza With Pata Negra

Pizza and Figs Pizza with Pineapple Pizza With Pata Negra. Last night I attended a philosophical discussion of some pizza chefs, almost all disagree about the use of pineapple on pizza.

Not just pineapple, but the use of fruit in general as a topping for pizza. What this poor fruit will have done (pineapple) to attract all these negative judgments I just can't understand it.

Absolutely divergent opinions

At some point in the evening someone asked my opinion, after a short reflection I pointed out that exactly 50 Years ago, I said 50, do not 10 or twenty, fifty years ago when there were few pizzerias in Italy, and the pizza that was consumed was mainly that of the oven, I always ate focaccia with figs during the summer.

So we are talking about pizza and fruit. In other countries, pineapple focaccia was eaten, and also grilled meat accompanied with grilled pineapple, see Brazilian churrasco.

Pizza and Figs Pizza with Pineapple Pizza With Pata Negra

So we want to talk about who adds the Spanish Pata Negra ham? So we are facing an unfair or incorrect phenomenon, but something that satisfies our culinary curiosity.

Listen to me, there is nothing right or wrong about the type of ingredients that are usually added to pizza, but simply of different tastes.

Conclusions

If you are a pizza lover, sign up for one of our practical courses to become a pizza chef. You will find all the information this link.

If you are among those who often prepare pizza at home, save this page among your favorite sites, there are over 300 pizza recipes. You can find them at this link.

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The best-selling dessert in the pizzeria
Actuality, Culture

The best-selling dessert in the pizzeria

The best-selling dessert in the pizzeria. Until a few years ago, many pizzerias insisted on offering dessert pizzas to their customers, now this trend seems to be heading towards a certain sunset, not all customers are happy to eat another pizza for dessert, even if it could be very good.

The fact is that after a pizza, eating another one to end a dinner is an unlikely hypothesis. Can you imagine how many calories a pizza can have with an overflowing layer of Nutella spread on top.

How fashions change

Let's face it, everyone has experienced a dessert pizza at least once in their life, but now we are more oriented towards something smaller or perhaps lighter.

Following is the result of the "Consumers" report, the most requested dessert in a pizzeria is the old Tiramisu which never seems to set.

The best-selling dessert in the pizzeria

Not to forget, in our professional courses to become a pizza chef that we organize in our pizza school, we prepare many important pizza desserts. Discover our professional courses.

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Job Requests For Pizza Makers
Actuality, Advice

Job Requests For Pizza Makers

Job Requests For Pizza Makers. unbelievable, there is a huge demand for qualified pizza chefs. Every week I receive phone calls from all over the world requesting qualified people from our pizza school.

These calls come from all over the world, just today someone from Australia called me looking for a good pizza chef.

How to get in touch

The most important thing is to have attended one of our practical courses to become a pizza chef. The pizza chefs who successfully finish one of our practical courses, he has no difficulty in entering the world of work.

Find out more about our professional practical courses, follow this link.

Job Requests For Pizza Makers

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Silvio Cicchi

 

 

 

How many Pizzerias are there in Italy
Actuality

How Many Pizzerias Are There In Italy

How Many Pizzerias Are There In Italy. Come on, come on, are truly monstrous numbers. From the data we have available on the internet, there are 127 thousand companies in Italy that sell pizza.

These pizza places are divided as follows: 76457 are catering businesses, 40000 they are restaurant-pizzeria, 36300 instead they are bar-pizzeria.

Other fantastic curiosities

What are the most requested pizzas by Italians? Margherita is certainly the most requested pizza, with fiordilatte in northern Italy, with mozzarella from hoax al sud. The ranking continues with ham and mushrooms, the capricious, artichokes, devil and ton.

In the next article we will list other useful curiosities. Keep following our site.

How Many Pizzerias Are There In Italy

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How To See All Our Video Pizza Recipes
Actuality, Advice

How To See All Our Video Pizza Recipes

How To See All Our Video Pizza Recipes. As you know, our website contains more than 300 video recipes of various pizzas, all prepared by pizza chef students who attend our professional practical courses who come from all over the world.

Our videos are viewed countless times every day, the audience is very large, but most people use our channel youtube to get advice every time you have to prepare pizza at home.

Our youtube channel

just so, we have a youtube channel entirely dedicated to over 300 pizza recipes, convenient for those looking for suggestions, to get inspiration or to renew your menu.

My advice to never miss a video recipe again is to subscribe to our channel immediately, you will be immediately notified whenever we publish a new video of how to prepare the novelty pizza.

How To See All Our Video Pizza Recipes

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You are true pizza lovers?

An opportunity to be seized on the fly, if you really like pizza and want to know it better, join one of ours Professional practical courses in our school of pizza.

You will find all the information regarding our professional practical courses at this link.

Conclusions on pizza

If you have not already done, download my latest recipe book called Non Solo Pizza. A fantastic collection of recipes that have always been monuments of Italian cuisine. You will find the collection at this link.

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The Cost of A Margherita Pizza
Actuality, Advice

The Cost of A Margherita Pizza

The Cost of A Margherita Pizza. In this period we do nothing but discuss what the right price of a pizza is, specifically of one pizza margherita.

Let's try to clarify once and for all how much it costs a pizza chef to prepare a margherita pizza step by step.

Let's look at the price of the ingredients

Let's start from the base, the disc of pasta, which before the war in Ukraine had a cost of approx 10 cents, today at the date of writing this article the price of a ball for a pizza base has almost doubled, passing to about 20 cents.

Tomato pizza: About eighty grams of tomato go on a margherita pizza, the average price of tomato for pizza goes from 50 to 70 cents per kilo, so you spend on average for each pizza 10 the 20 euro cents each pizza.

The Cost of A Margherita Pizza

Extra virgin olive oil: with the current market price of extra virgin olive oil, that goes from 8 to 16 euro for each liter, it spends on average 20 euro cents for oil.

Let's now move on to the most expensive topping used in the preparation of pizza, that is the mozzarella fiordilatte. The price per kilo varies a lot depending on the place of origin, but to make an average price let's say that mozzarella is worth about 8 euro per kilo. On a pizza they are used 100 grams of mozzarella, so the total price is approx 80 cents.

Other miscellaneous expenses

Basil is missing, therefore we also consider the two basil leaves, But above all, there is no VAT, the cup, the electricity costs if you use the electric oven, or wood if a wood-burning oven is used, all these expenses are not easy to quantify, because they vary with the different amount of work for each pizzeria.

We know with certainty that the cost of ingredients for a margherita pizza can vary from one euro using medium products and could go up to 2 euros using top ingredients, but it is very difficult.

Conclusions

Given the sale price of pizza margherita that goes from 5 to 7 euro, I would say it is a fair price. I remind you that we are talking about a popular food.

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Serve the customer the pizza cut into wedges
Actuality, Advice

Serve the customer the pizza cut into wedges

Serve the customer the pizza cut into wedges. Lately, often going to dinner in a pizzeria, I notice that the bad habit of serving the pizza already cut into wedges at the table is gaining ground. In your opinion it is right or wrong?

But have you ever been served a plate of spaghetti already shredded?? I know this is going to seem really absurd to you, you can't serve a customer a plate of shredded spaghetti.

But then why the pizza yes?

During my professional practical courses in our school, addressing my students, I always recommend arranging the ingredients on the pizza evenly, trying to give it a decent look.

Last night they served me a pizza with rocket and raw ham, alas, already cut into wedges. Well you can never imagine what a horrible look it looked, try to imagine the rocket and the raw ham cut with the pizza cutter. A total havoc.

Serve the customer the pizza cut into wedges

Please don't follow this example, if you really like to cut pizza, first present it to the customer, then if you are asked to cut it you will.

For other tips like this, add this site to your favorite sites, to always have other useful tips at hand.

Conclusions

If you like pizza and are planning to enroll in a professional pizza chef course, follow this link.

For those who were not yet aware of it, my latest recipe collection called. is already available for download: Non Solo Pizza. You will be able to find it at this link.

For those who do not have the time or resources to come to our school, I remember that here on my website a fantastic online pizza chef course is available for everyone, very simple, just download it on your mobile and it's ready to go. You can find it at this link.

Greetings

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How Many Pizzas Can A Pizza Chef Make In An Evening
Actuality

How Many Pizzas Can A Pizza Chef Make In An Evening

Article updated on 17 Set. 2022

How Many Pizzas Can A Pizza Chef Make In An Evening. All my students who participate in mine professional courses to become a pizza maker, before the course ends they have a request stare at me.

The question they want to ask me takes a while to measure themselves and to see the state of preparation they have reached. Maestro, but how many pizzas he can prepare at most a pizza chef in a working evening?

Verification of the skills of a pizza chef

Know that it is not easy to answer this question, Because? Precisely because not all pizzerias are the same, and when I say the same, I mean we're going to have to look into the space available who has the pizza chef, the equipment, the capacity of the oven, the convenience of always having all the ingredients at your fingertips.

Then we have to consider if you are working with a wood stove or an electric oven. As you well know, the wood-fired oven requires a lot of maintenance during its work, a small piece of wood to keep the flame alive, which must always be lit., a larger piece of wood to always keep the temperature high. All the time that is taken away from the preparation of the pizzas.

How Many Pizzas Can A Pizza Chef Make In An Evening

So it is not really possible to calculate how many pizzas a pizza chef can prepare in an evening? Let's say yes. A good pizza chef who does not prepare square pizzas and is attentive to details, senza che bruci le pizze a metà 🙂 dovrebbe preparare circa 30 pizze per ora. Si può arrivare anche a 35 pizze l’ora se si è fortunati con qualche ordine ripetitivo, cioè che prevede 4 pizze uguali, senza molte varianti per intenderci.

La cosa cambia completamente se si avvicina un aiutante al pizzaiolo. I have seen pairs of well-knit pizza chefs get to produce too 100 pizzas in an hour, One in front of the oven and the other for the preparation and seasoning.

What if they were 3 the 4 pizzaioli?

Having only one oven available, unfortunately this places a limit on the production of pizzas. It is not true that doubling the number of pizza chefs doubles the pizzas produced. 3 or 4 pizza chefs having only one oven available can produce 120 pizzas circa ogni ora.

If you want to become excellent pizza chefs, vi suggerisco di iscrivervi ad one of our practical courses individuali presso la nostra scuola della pizza. You will find all the information at this link.

Greetings

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Rising in the Summer with the Heat
Actuality, Advice

Rising in the Summer with the Heat

Rising in the Summer with the Heat. As I always recommend, every holy day, during our professional courses to become a pizza chef in our school, Pay attention to the leavening.

Leavening is one of the 300 and more chemical processes that occur during the pizza preparation phase, it is so fast that it can be seen with the naked eye.

What to do in hot weather to control leavening

It is clear that before rolling out the ball we must wait for the leavening to have reached a sufficient stage, and this happens very quickly in the hot summer.

It is also true that the perfect pizza is not obtained when the leavened dough is in its descending phase, when it starts to smell of acid so to speak.

Rising in the Summer with the Heat

Someone should explain to these guys who pass themselves off as pizza chefs that refrigerators have long been invented, the fridge in addition to the classic use made of it for maturation (I really hope it gets done) it is also used to check the dough.

Going around pizzerias I see scandalous things, pizzas with shapes more similar to a square than to the classic round pizza. I understand that when you are in a hurry you don't mind these little things, but ... we are sure?

Summary on leavening

Leavening it's important, but you don't have to get the dough to "pierce" otherwise we are no longer talking about pizza.

If you need a freshen up, or a refresher course, I strongly suggest you sign up for one of ours Professional workshops that we organize weekly in our pizza school. They are individual courses.

Conclusions

My latest collection of recipes that have always been monuments of Italian cuisine is already available for download, is called: Not just Pizza. What should have all the pizzerias in your menu. You will find it here

If you need suggestions for the next time you prepare pizza at home, I invite you to follow my collection over 200 pizza recipes. You will find it at this link.

See you in a few days for more news on the fascinating world of pizza.

Ciao

Silvio Cicchi