Stress Testing the Kitchen, 12 Pizzas Cooked for Construction Party
July 2011I've been practicing with my pizza oven and have cooked quite a few pizzas for data center friends with four pizzas cooked at the most. Last night we had a party for our construction party. With all these people, 1/2 of the people there are in the picture below. We needed to cook more than 4 pizzas. 12 is what we cooked, but I had enough dough for 15.
Luckily I had help cooking the dozen pizzas. I can cook a pizza in 6 minutes, rotating the pizza after 3 minutes, then load another pizza, cooking 2 pizzas at the same time. I needed some help preparing, cutting, and serving the pizzas while I focused on cooking. Margaret and Maddy were our hired help, and are part of the kids swim group.
Our construction company was Lavallee Construction, http://www.lavalleeconstruction.net/.
Now that I cooked 12 pizzas, I'll see if I can cook 20 pizzas. In theory I could cook the 20 pizzas in an hour, but find about 10 an hour a good enough pace. I never thought I would say I feel comfortable cooking 10 pizzas an hour at home. Tonight is an easy night, I just have three pizza doughs for cooking.
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