From the article linked in post 235:
When you say the food doesn’t look horrible, what are you looking at?
Most of the food photos on their website and yelp! were stolen and/or stock photos.
Regarding pizza, she doesn’t seem to know that toppings need to be added after the pizza dough has cooked for a bit. A recurring theme in reviews is that the topping is burned and the pizza dough is still raw.
Never cross the Pita Jungle Mafia!
And I wouldn’t lay down any money on whether or not those “death threats” actually exist.
The picture of the leftovers from the Phoenix New Times article linked about the grand opening.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bella/leftovers_ABC.JPG
I would say that’s an easy fix but from what I gather she’s not receptive to any sort of criticism however simple it would to enact.
I wonder if she makes the salmon cakes or defrosts them.
And really, the burger that they gave Ramsay looked pretty disgusting. Not because of the unusual ingredients, but because it was a wet, sloppy mess.
Really? I’ve never noticed my favorite pizzeria putting the pizza in the wood-fired oven twice. Seems like they roll out the dough, put on the toppings, then bake.
Well, they’re probably not putting toppings on a frozen pie.
I’ve never seen it done that way either. And I worked at Chuck E Cheese for a summer making pizza and always put the whole pizza in the conveyer belt oven at once.
Looks like his past does include all sorts of thuggish behavior. He’s banned from France and Germany, and is facing deportation from the US.
The article currently linked doesn’t mention drug distribution, extortion, or being barred from entering any countries. Either it’s been changed, or I hit the wrong link.
It isn’t mentioned within the article but in the video.
That sounds more like what happens when somebody tries to broil a pizza. I had a roommate do that once with a frozen pizza. Put it in the oven and set it to “Broil” (i.e. the heat is coming from the top, not the bottom). Burned the crap out of the top, while the crust was insufficiently cooked. If the heat is coming from below, it will cook the crust and the surrounding heat will melt the cheese and heat the toppings just fine. Use the broiler, and you’ll burn the top without cooking the crust.
I worked years ago at both Godfather’s and Pizza Hut, and yeah, we put the whole, assembled pizza in all in one go.
That’s a way of making pizza but not the typical way of making pizza, in my experience. Usually, raw dough and ingredients are placed and cooked in one go. Almost every pizzeria I go to, whether a standard 400-500F deck oven to a wood-or-coal fired 700-1000F+ oven does it this way.
Yeah, theoretically, her technique looks fine from what I saw. I would dearly love to have seen her actually prepare something from start to finish because I’m also dying to know what exactly she’s doing that making a pizza takes her the better part of an hour.
Ladies and gentleman, I offer you this from youtube:
My Fella found it and we laughed like hell.
That is fricking awesome, BrassyPhrase.
+1
Not unique.
The “Yummy Bites” restaurant in Athens, Georgia was doing that as of last summer.
Ah. Thanks, I’ll have to check it at home.
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing, BrassyPhrase!