Seattle Pizza News

Friend of the blog and Omni Group alum, Derek Reiff, is moving his amazing take out pizza to a more permanent location:

Cult favorite Seattle pizza pop-up will open permanent restaurant | The Seattle Times

Heads up, Seattle pizza fans: If you never scored one of the hard-to-get pizzas from My Friend Derek’s, fret not — that Detroit-style pop-up will soon have a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Tangletown.

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Reiff never set firm hours for this side hustle, so fans had to monitor the My Friend Derek’s Instagram page to see when he felt like making pizza. With his pizzas regularly selling out within 30 minutes, Reiff started entertaining the notion that maybe he could “make enough doing pizza to quit my day job.”

My Friend Derek’s is some of the best Detroit style pizza I've had.

Bread Wisdom from Reddit

A comment from "ashkanahmadi" on a post titled "What’s your biggest bread realization?":

People baked bread for thousands of years using some of the shittiest tools and they were happy with it. Now, it seems like if you don’t have a 200€ cast iron Dutch oven or an expensive lame or fancy steam oven, your bread is gonna be worthless just because it doesn’t look great. So the realization is that you don’t need to have the best tools, or constantly baby sit your bread, or feel discouraged if it’s not some instagrammable loaf. Bread is bread and what people call “ugly or over fermented” would pass as mindblowingly good 200 years ago. The less you mess around with the dough, the happier you will be.

Yet more Gozney links because I'm a shill for them.

I just really like Gozney ovens, OK?

If you've wanted a quick and easy way to make your own starter, the folks at Gozney recently put up a video on how to do that: The Fastest Sourdough Starter Method.

Consumer season is in full swing and with Black Friday coming up, Gozney is getting in on the action. So if you're interested in their ovens, now is a good time: Black Friday Event – Gozney US. (They have a sale maybe once or twice a year?).

Quick Vids

I found this short video of the opening of Sandtown Pizza inspiring, and jealousy inducing.

And speaking of Detroit style pizza, Moto is really getting into the pizza making robot thing as seen in this pizza bot action video