i get stuck on food items. anyone else afflicted?
I have always wanted to try Chicago (and Detroit) style. Unfortunately the one time I was in Chicago, my Amtrak layover wasn’t long enough to find that many options and I ended up at some vegan place a few blocks away.
If you’re a home cook, it’s possible to make a very passable Chicago style pizza at home. I’ve done knock-offs of Giordanos’s stuffed spinach and also a standard Lou Malnoti’s.
But I’ll admit that it’s a bit tricky if you don’t have that base knowledge of what you’re going for.
I think this was the resource I used to back-engineer the crusts. The rest is getting the order of ingredients (cheese on bottom to form a fat shield that protects the crust, toppings, potentially more cheese or another razor thin crust, then red sauce.)
Deep dish crust has been surprisingly easy to replicate at home, but for the life of me I can’t get the sauce and especially the sausage anywhere near where I want it. I swear Lou Malnati’s does some outright witchcraft with their sausage. It’s so good.
Plus, it’s amazing how hard it is to find whole milk mozzarella in some places.
