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In Videos: 'Hell's Kitchen' Uncensored, Season 2 Episode 1

winebill: It's his character on the show, like it or not. Check out the BBC's "Kitchen Nightmares" for scenes of him acting like a normal, intelligent person.

From Slice

Sedona, Arizona: Apizza Heaven

Browned cheese = a bad look.

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From Row to Dough: Pizza Farm Grows Almost All Pie Ingredients On Site

Ah, greenwashing... nothing fresh or "sustainable" can ever do wrong. Instead, let's just change the subject to Domino's, which has absolutely nothing to do with the thread.

From Slice

From Row to Dough: Pizza Farm Grows Almost All Pie Ingredients On Site

Pizza is a beautiful thing because of both its taste and its form, which should be balanced and harmonious. This is especially true in the case of the margherita pizza (really just some bread with a pinch of tomato and a pinch of mozzarella, how boring!) where the ingredients must be in perfect balance to create the proper flavor, appearance, and eating experience. The pictured pizza is completely overloaded with cheese and other stuff, and instead of displaying a nice pattern of white and charred regions, the crust is an unappealing even-brown color. The best pizzas I've ever had came out of my oven. It is it not located in New York.

From Slice

From Row to Dough: Pizza Farm Grows Almost All Pie Ingredients On Site

Looks like more of a mess than a margherita pizza.

From Required Eating

Fewer Laminated Paper Menus, More Periodic Tables

Cambridge 1 in Harvard Square is owned by the same people and has a similar ambience... and it also serves Brooklyn Lager on tap. It doesn't have the science gimmick, though.

From Required Eating

Fewer Laminated Paper Menus, More Periodic Tables

The bar is made of that same stone that was used to make old-school lab benches... though if you order a beer, it comes in a regular pint glass.

From Required Eating

Grocery Ninja: Dulce de Membrillo

Poor man's substitute: rosehip lekvar

From Required Eating

Gordon Ramsay Getting Sued For £500,000

I could barely watch that one episode of Kitchen Nightmares USA without hurling something at the TV. The UK show is fantastic, but the typical FOX jerkasses at FOX who produce the US version have decided to make it a typical US reality show. There is this literally incessant music in the background, mostly pizzicato string "this is silly" music and sometimes overly dramatic orchestra stuff, along with screeching knife and gong and explosion noises to make things more dramatic. There are some flies at the restaurant in this episode and they keep re-playing the same "fly buzzing" stock sound effect and a video clip of a fly alighting from a napkin, at least 10 times in 5 minutes. Instead of showing Ramsay having honest conversations with people in the restaurant, they cut it up into little clips that make him look like he's lost his temper. They constantly cut away to those "confessional" clips of various people from the restaurant sitting in an empty room talking about how things make them feel. Ramsay tells a man to not talk on his cellphone during service, and we're treated to a faded-out flashback of the last time we saw the man using a cellphone during service, as if we're too dumb to remember things that happened in the last act. They pretty much do everything possible to insult my intelligence and work against the excellent material they've got to work with (a dirty restaurant with bad teamwork).

Appropriately enough, comparing the US version to the UK version is like comparing one of the Kitchen Nightmare restaurants in its "before" state to its "after" state. Just horrid, cluttered, disrespectful to the good product it has available, unpleasant, no focus or pride in itself or its viewers.

From Slice

Why Can't You Get a Good Slice Outside New York City? 'Wired' Magazine Says It's the Water

Bullshit. If the water were even remotely important, people would just make up a batch of salts that matches NYC tap exactly and then mix it into distilled water (as is sometimes done for beer cloning).

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From Slice

Sedona, Arizona: Apizza Heaven

Pizza is one of my favorite food and A Pizza Heaven is by far my favorite pizza ever, not only in Sedona, but across the country. Dave's Pizza Rocks!!!

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Sedona, Arizona: Apizza Heaven

That's what REAL pizza is suppose to look like! It's not Dominos or Pizza Hut!

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Sedona, Arizona: Apizza Heaven

Brown is Beautiful.

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Sedona, Arizona: Apizza Heaven

No Browned Cheese=Pizza NOT done. It's called carmelization son . . .

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Sedona, Arizona: Apizza Heaven

I love his "Hustler" oven.

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Sedona, Arizona: Apizza Heaven

Browned cheese = a delicious look.
:P

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Sedona, Arizona: Apizza Heaven

Polly-O is some great great GREAT cheese.

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Sedona, Arizona: Apizza Heaven

Hooray--a viable option to Red Planet Cafe and its outer space theme ... although Sedona in its entirety sometimes seems to carry an outer space theme. I love it!

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Sedona, Arizona: Apizza Heaven

I don't know. I kinda have a soft spot for browned cheese, which is basically how every pizzeria I grew up with did it. I think that, outside NYC and a few select pizza towns, browned cheese = "pizza's done!" I actually miss the taste and texture at times and am pleasantly surprised by it when I do get a pizza like the one pictured above.

From Slice

Why Can't You Get a Good Slice Outside New York City? 'Wired' Magazine Says It's the Water

I disagree with the water theory. The best pizza I have had outside of NYC was in North Carolina - two brothers who moved down from the bronx to open up a place. It's how you make it as well as the ingredients.