>know an italian from italy >makes pizza >no finesse

Yes it does. He's Italian and therefore any pizza he makes is authentic.
You're just appropriating his culture.

Anyone else glaze their crust with egg wash? Been thinking about doing this lately to give it a more golden color, maybe glaze it with a butter garlic wash half way through also for added taste.

>>7182062
I've never used an egg wash on my pizza before, but I have brushed the crust with garlic butter before putting it in the oven.

I do usually put some egg wash on top of my calzones or stromboli when I make that.

Don't Sicilians typically make no-frills pizza like that?

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Here's the pizza he made.

>>7182041
You should do everything by eye, though. You'll never learn if you stay on crutches.

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>>7182120
>baking by eye

>>7182049
kek

>>7182678
this

>>7182120
senpai, it's one thing to improvise with a dish you're sauteing, or a casserole, or a sauce.
and improvising in baking can be good as well. but you can't just willy nilly say "im gonna make bread by eye" unless youve been cooking for 85 years and have been using the same bowl for 50 of those years and know exactly what point in the bowl the ingredients should come up to, or are a professional cook and can eyeball 8oz with 95% accuracy (and even then it's better to have your ratios correct). of course you can make your own food, its a free country, but typically it's a shit idea to bake by "eye". when your leavening is off your cake will be hard, cookies will ooze off the tray, and bread will taste like cardboard, meanwhile you wonder "what happened"

>>7182698
I agree with the general sentiment of your post, but.
>you can't just willy nilly say "im gonna make bread by eye"
I actually do this all the time. Really the most important thing is hitting 2% salt. I know what 500g of flour and 10g of salt look like. Everything else, from hydration, developing gluten, how to handle the dough, and the amount of yeast/starter and subsequent fermentation time is all easily done by feel and paying attention to how your dough is behaving. If you aren't worried about having your bread ready at specific time, it's a good leaning experience to make bread by feel alone.

>know an italian from italy

I would be worried if we wasn't italian desu senpai

>>7182698
85 years, my arse. It's a simple matter to get an instinct for the basic recipes of spongecake, mudcake, madeira, and the like. It is not hard to remember what various quantities of staple ingredients look like.

Bread is the easiest one of all. The quantity of water actually varies depending on your location, so it is in fact better to do bread by eye once you know what a good dough feels like.

Stop telling yourself this cop out bullshit and start actually paying attention.

>>7182089
Every thread. Why. Just why.

>>7183193
italian americans are not italians

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I can't tell wether these kind of threads are actually started by Americans for the sole purpose of shitposting or if it's the Australians doing it for the meta-shitposting banters?

>>7182698
I make my pizza dough by eye and I've only been cooking for 10 years. Turns out great every time. Fite me

>>7183521
Neither americans