Which one: PLEASE!!?

Question

Ok so my i'm throwin my friend a "going away" party! And my other friend, who is also the one thrown the party, were REALLY low on money! So we were deciding which one would cost less: Buying 9 Domino's Pizza's, OR making our own pizza's! Know making our own may sound less, but would it cost more to buy all the ingredients for 9 pizza's, or cheaper to just buy 9 pizza's! PLEASE HELP: PARTY THIS FRIDAY!!! TAHNK YOU!!!

Answer 1

I looked up on this site, it gives a recipe and how to make the pizza, compare the price, im SURE its cheaper to make at home.  Take a look at the site and there are pictures to help with how it should look and what to do...enjoy!!

Here are the ingredients, cost ($3.48 - $4.48 per pizza) and recipe for my first homemade pizza complete with nifty pictures of most of the process too.. Woo?



Ingredients:

1 ½ cups warm water (distilled if possible)

2 tablespoons sugar

2 ¼ teaspoons active dry yeast

1 ½ teaspoons salt

2 tablespoons olive oil

4 cups white flour

Cost to Make ($4.48 each 12" pizza):

43¢    White flour

$1.75    Mozarella cheese

40¢    Pizza sauce (or make it!)

$1.00    Pepperoni (optional)

40¢    Dry active yeast

46¢    Olive oil

4¢    Sugar

Mixing Directions:

   1. Pour warm water into large mixing bowl.

   2. Add sugar and yeast to water, then stir until dissolved.

      Let mixture sit for 10 minutes for yeast to mature (It will get foamy when ready).

   3. Add salt and olive oil and stir again.

   4. Add 1st cup flour and whisk it in. Do the same with the 2nd cup of flour.

   5. Add 3rd cup of flour and combine (whisk probably won't work now, I used a spoon).

   6. Then add final 4th cup of flour and mix it in by hand, begin to kneed dough.

   7. Add dusting flour as needed while you kneed dough for another 5-10 minutes or so.

   8. Once dough no longer sticks to your hands lightly coat dough ball with olive oil and place into a lightly oiled mixing bowl.

   9. Cover bowl with plastic wrap or foil and set asside to rise for 60-75 minutes (I let mine rise for 75 minutes).

Now onto the pictures for the rest! Woo.

pizza dough before rising

After the mixing and kneeding of the ingredients I balled up the dough, put a little olive oil on the dough ball, and put it in a lightly oiled bowl. Then covered it and let it rise for an hour.

pizza dough after rising

After about an hour and 15 minutes covered in the unlit oven the dough had risen a bunch, it was over twice as big, d'oh..

Note: Make sure the dough is at least twice the volume it was. If it takes two hours so be it, don't get anxious!

pizza dough cut in two pieces

Then I punched down (deflated) the dough, dumped it out and cut it in two pieces. (This recipe makes two crusts)

finished pizza dough balls

After cutting the dough in two chunks I kneeded them a little more and balled them up again.

proof pizza dough

One dough ball I lightly covered in olive oil and placed in a ziplock freezer bag for later use (I later found out the bag was *way* too small and the dough rose more and broke it, use a larger freezer bag than the one pictured!). The other I placed back in the bowl for 15 more minutes to rest and "proof".

flatten out and form pizza dough

Then I worked the dough ball on a lightly floured cutting board, flattened it out, and even tossed it a little over my knuckles to spread it out, woo. You could also just roll it out with a rolling pin too, it's just less fun that way.. It should be fairly thin at this point, maybe 1/8 of an inch thick or so. Basically it fit my 14" pizza pan when done.

Note: You can see the gluten proteins have made it "stretchy" (if you've done everything right so far), and the dough is stretchy and somewhat elastic. It should not break or tear easily if you decide to toss it around a little over your knuckles.

pizza ingredients (mozzarella cheese, pizza sauce and pepperoni)

Now we're ready for the other ingredients like pizza sauce, pepperoni and mozzarella cheese.

Note: I've finally gotten around to putting up a recipe for simple pizza sauce from scratch using whole tomatoes. Check it out here!.

pizza crust with sauce

I placed my dough on my pizza pan, slapped on some pizza sauce and spread it around..

Note: I've heard nothing but good things about using a "pizza stone" (see right column link), and plan to buy one in the future and try it. But to be economical I've only bought a plain 'ol pizza pan for now.

mozarella cheese on pizza crust

Then added a light layer of the mozzarella cheese..

pizza complete with topping before cooking

Then sprinkled a tiny bit of garlic salt and parmesian cheese, added lots of pepperoni, and topped it off with a bunch more mozzarella chesse.

cooked pizza

I had preheated the oven to 450° F and then baked the pizza on the middle rack for a little over ten minutes or so.

finished homemade pizza (mMmm)

And there's the finished pizza cut up and ready to chow down on. mMmm. Check out how the mozzarella cheese is stringy and streches from the pan to the plate. Woo?

Answer 2

BUY THE PIZZA, IT'LL BE LESS TROUBLE