How fucking expensive are white flour, pureed tomato and cheap mozzarella in your parts? Last time I made pizza at home, the basic ingredients (without any fancy toppings) cost like $0.5 per portion, and I live in Germany, not some poor third world country.
I tend to buy pizza sauce, which is more expensive than pureed tomato. Cheap pizza sauce is about US$2-4 but I sometimes splurge on more expensive pizza sauce.
I make pizza from scratch regularly, 1,50 Euro per Pizza is absolutely doable. Even with a topping or two. My personal favorite is pepperoni (the vegetable, not the sausage), which is cheap. My kid likes salami best. These two together will cost me about 2,60 Euro w/o counting the energy for the oven. That’s 1,30 per serving.
Unfortunately you don’t buy groceries by the portion in the US. Not sure if that’s done in Europe either. The cost of the ingredients you buy is baked into the cost of the pizza. Just because you have leftovers doesn’t make it cheaper.
That’s only true if you don’t use up the leftovers. Flour lasts a long time and has countless uses, there’s lots of recipes that use pureed tomatos (which also last a fair amount of time in the fridge, and months in the freezer) and nothing could be easier than using up cheese.
Alternatively, just make more pizza. If you have a party, it shouldn’t be too hard to use up most of the ingredients.
I’m sorry but you can’t make a pizza for a $1.50 unless he live in Cambodia
Lidl and aldi sell pizza for less than that
How fucking expensive are white flour, pureed tomato and cheap mozzarella in your parts? Last time I made pizza at home, the basic ingredients (without any fancy toppings) cost like $0.5 per portion, and I live in Germany, not some poor third world country.
it probably cost me $10+ to make a pizza at home in the USA.
8oz Cheese is expensive. a couple of tomatoes cost the same.
I mean yeah a magherita is cheap but if you want some meat or shrooms or something on it…
True. As everyone knows, Pizza Margherita was invented by Cambodians. /s
But seriously, homemade Margherita is so cheap that it’s not particularly hard to fit several toppings into a $1.50-per-pizza budget.
I tend to buy pizza sauce, which is more expensive than pureed tomato. Cheap pizza sauce is about US$2-4 but I sometimes splurge on more expensive pizza sauce.
As long as you don’t claim that it’s impossible to make half-decent pizza with cheaper ingredients …
How big are those $4 pizza sauce portions, anyway? I use maybe 50-100ml of tomato sauce for one pizza.
14 oz. how are you using 100ml for a pizza? Perhaps my pizzas are bigger than yours?
My pizzas are flat and not completely dripping with sauce or cheese. As Italy intended.
Italians would be disgusted with my fondness for garlic. Now that I think about it, I can make 4 pizzas with 14 oz of sauce, or 1 deep dish pizza.
German here, too.
Deep Dish Pizza is not Pizza.
I make pizza from scratch regularly, 1,50 Euro per Pizza is absolutely doable. Even with a topping or two. My personal favorite is pepperoni (the vegetable, not the sausage), which is cheap. My kid likes salami best. These two together will cost me about 2,60 Euro w/o counting the energy for the oven. That’s 1,30 per serving.
Unfortunately you don’t buy groceries by the portion in the US. Not sure if that’s done in Europe either. The cost of the ingredients you buy is baked into the cost of the pizza. Just because you have leftovers doesn’t make it cheaper.
That’s only true if you don’t use up the leftovers. Flour lasts a long time and has countless uses, there’s lots of recipes that use pureed tomatos (which also last a fair amount of time in the fridge, and months in the freezer) and nothing could be easier than using up cheese.
Alternatively, just make more pizza. If you have a party, it shouldn’t be too hard to use up most of the ingredients.