Honda 367

What is the difference between Detroit style vs. Chicago style?

zeroptzero

I love to make pizza at home with my simple pizza oven. Pizza tends to be a favourite food of mine so I love to comment about pizza and I have a few pizza posts on the food thread. I made a Detroit style pizza a few weeks back at home, it turned out really good but as I noted above it is very heavy and dense compared to the thin crust margherita pizzas that I prefer.

Chicago and Detroit Styles are both deep dish, the Chicago is round , the Detroit is square. The Detroit pizza uses brick cheese, the Chicago uses mozzarella. Detroit's famous pizza places swear by a specific blue steel cooking pan that they said started from parts used in automotive factories decades back. Detroit has cheese on the bottom, toppings on the cheese, reverse layered, then the tomato sauce is drizzled on top or in dollops, unlike the Chicago pizza sauce that is flooded on top. The Detroit style pizza also has a caramelized crust, as cheese is sprinkled on top and perhaps behind the edge to caramelize and crust up.

dlq04

^ interesting.... who knew.... not me

MsPerky

Anyone but Dave know what the LinkedIn sign is made of? Not too hard to figure out.

Honda 367

^ It is piston & rod.

robb

I’ll admit looking at it straight on in the first pic I did not know what it was, once I saw it from the side I did. If I were close up to the front of it in person I think I would of figured it out. It’s really cool art to me I love that kind of stuff. I have a lamp made from an old oil can.

zeroptzero

They looked like pop cans from the front face, but yeah pistons and rods when you see the side shots. Harder to decipher from a picture, likely easier when seen in person. It is very appropriate for the Detroit office. It is a very cool sign.

zeroptzero

Only pizza nuts tend to know the differences in different pizzas. I like most styles of pizza especially ones based on old school recipes that have been popular for decades or more. But the new east Indian recipes that are being made these days to cater to the growing immigrant populations are not my cup of tea - Butter chicken pizza -

I like a great margherita wood oven pizza, New York style, Chicago style, and Detroit style. My favourite lately has been Newhaven style pizza , and tomato pie found in older parts of the northeast USA . A simple bakery style pizza is great for an anytime snack best eaten cold.

robb

I met up with my cousins who came up from R.I. and they hooked me up with some, what we call in R.I. Pizza strips. Soooo good but you have to get them from someplace that knows how to make them a lot of places make them too dry. This was a go to bakery in R.I. that does them properly www.depetrillo’s.com

zeroptzero

Ah that sounds like a great bakery pizza Rob, they are really good eaten cold and any time you want a quick bite