{"id":11218,"date":"2016-03-01T06:12:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T11:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=11218"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:38","slug":"punching-up-the-pizza-with-cast-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/punching-up-the-pizza-with-cast-iron\/","title":{"rendered":"Punching Up the Pizza with Cast Iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I enjoy having a homemade pizza on Saturday nights. This pizza ends up being at least two dinners, sometimes a lunch as well. So it&#8217;s worth the effort we put into doing it up right.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month my wife and I celebrated our birthdays \u2014 just 6 days apart. Part of our Birthday Week celebration was a trip to the Lodge Cast Iron factory outlet store in a nearby city where we bought several new pieces of cast iron cookware. One of these is a 16 inch cast iron pizza pan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.grit.com\/~\/media\/Images\/GRT\/Editorial\/Blogs\/Allan\/Punching%20Up%20the%20Pizza%20with%20Cast%20Iron\/Cast%20Iron%20Pizza%20pan%20160227.JPG?la=en\" alt=\"Cast Iron Pizza Pan\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Around a hundred years ago (or it seems so) I worked my way through the <a href=\"https:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/pizza-dude-skin-flinger\/\">management training program<\/a> of a popular pizza chain store. On my way to management I learned a lot about making pizza by making and serving many thousands of them. One of the secrets of why a take-out pizza tastes better than most homemade is the oven. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grit.com\/food\/punching-up-the-pizza-with-cast-iron-zb0z1602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I enjoy having a homemade pizza on Saturday nights. This pizza ends up being at least two dinners, sometimes a lunch as well. So it&rsquo;s worth the effort we put into doing it up right. Earlier this month my wife and I celebrated our birthdays &mdash; just 6 days apart. Part of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/punching-up-the-pizza-with-cast-iron\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Punching Up the Pizza with Cast Iron&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[121,93],"class_list":["post-11218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share-the-love","tag-cook","tag-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21155,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions\/21155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}