Improved Clinch

A New Market for Pizza Micrometers?

I purchase my pizzas, typically, from small mom and pop shops. One of the reasons I purchase pizzas from mom and pop shops is because I enjoy watching dough get tossed around, kneaded, and slathered with ingredients in a generous manner. No precise measuring required. Each pie that comes out of the oven is unique, unlike say a Pizza Hut pizza which is a standardized product whether purchased in Michigan, or Nome, Alaska.

Which brings us, interestingly enough, to Italy. Italy has decided they must protect the Neapolitan pizza and has developed some state rules for what makes a Neapolitan pizza, Neapolitan.

"It decreed that a Neapolitan pizza must be round and no more than 35cm in diameter.

The centre should not be higher than 0.3cm and the crust cannot rise higher than 2cm.

The law specifies what kind of flour, salt, and yeast and tomatoes have to be used.

The subclauses go even further."

So, I’m wondering, if the pizzas don’t pass micrometer muster, will they be collected and destroyed like counterfeit CD’s and DVD’s?

“Italian law on pizza purity a mouthful."

Via Mike Silverman at Red Letter Day.

Posted by on 05/30 at 04:13 AM