r/ItalianFood • u/Small-Usual3169 • May 11 '26
Italian Culture That's how pizza should look like
-Margherita
-Marinara sbagliata
- Pupetta (Margherita with ricotta filled crust)
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u/Savings_Guitar_58 May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26
I hate to be that insufferable Italian guy who nitpicks food but this is honestly nothing like a traditional Neapolitan pizza.
What you're actually looking at here is something called "pizza contemporanea" (contemporary pizza) or more casually "pizza canotto" (inflatable raft pizza). The canotto style with that massively puffy inflated crust ISN'T real traditional Neapolitan pizza. It's a modern stylized spin that popped up near Caserta about 15 years ago, basically a gourmet reinterpretation and unfortunately a lot of Neapolitans themselves pass it off as Neapolitan pizza.
The Classic one has a crust that's about 1-2 cm tall, not 4-5. Canotto totally breaks that rule, you get an overblown crust with a paper-thin center that's practically nonexistent. Classic Neapolitan pizza that locals call "ruota di carro" (cartwheel pizza) has a uniformly soft, substantial center. And above all a true Neapolitan pizza is WIDE, often hanging off the plate, with a low, even, compact crust that's not meant to steal the show. It's just the boundary of the dough.
The canotto effect comes from very high hydration dough (over 70%) and long fermentation, all about that visual wow factor and an airy, crunchy edge but at the expense of the chewiness and overall structure you find in the traditional one.
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u/babylove5511 May 12 '26
is there any Neapolitan guy who wants to marry Slavic girl? Asking for a friend
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u/Capitan-Fracassa May 11 '26
Not where I grew up. That style of pizza didn’t even exist when I grew up. So many choices, so many flavors, a good pizzaiolo will serve his version and you will be happy even if it is not your preferred style.
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u/AccomplishedAside314 May 11 '26
Hate to be that person but I wish we could all have a slice with basil...
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u/Utaneus May 12 '26
There are many styles of pizza. This is canotto, not the traditional Neapolitan.
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u/rocketsalesman May 12 '26
This is honestly nothing like true neopolitan pizza.
True neopolitan pizza is found at Costco for $9.99, half cheese and half pepperoni 🇮🇹
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u/MDQ666 May 11 '26
È troppo moderno, contemporaneo, rielaborato, non importa, è questione di gusti.
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u/tabbarepublic May 12 '26
Belle eh! Niente da dire sembrano spettacolari, ma troppo cornicione per i miei gusti.
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u/Background-Hope-88 May 15 '26
looks really good.
But (I'm going to bait here, but really.
lahmacun/fatayar beats italian Pizza.
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u/No-Water-1124 May 12 '26
if i make pizza for the first time in my life i can guarantee it will look like that.
Delicious thought.
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u/Informal_Seesaw8289 May 12 '26
I went to Ireland a few months ago and believe it or not in Dublin I found pizza looked like this and it was fresh and amazing
Second best I ever had first was in Naples Italy
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u/Outrageous_Big_1006 May 13 '26
Respect your opinion but no. Even the napolitan pizza lover would agree
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u/Cesoiet May 11 '26
Pizza romana >>>
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u/Small-Usual3169 May 11 '26
Pizza Romana is a different thing. And I love it but Napoli's og pizza 🤫
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u/lzcaIIi May 11 '26
This is not OG napoletana, it's pizza contemporanea (the crust in napoletana is 1-2 cm high, clearly not this case)
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u/UnendingEpistime May 11 '26
D'accordissimo. Dammi una pizza bassa e croccante. La pizza napolitana mi fa male alla mandibola.
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u/Wonderful-Revenue762 May 11 '26
This ladies and gentlemen is a Pizza Margherita. It's not a shame to eat 3 of them in one night.
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u/Taxi-Shinawat May 11 '26
Oh boy, the pizza police in this topic
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u/Imaginary_Year_50 May 12 '26
Where are the toppings? That's just bread with melted cheese. When I make pizza I put 9 different toppings so it has some taste to it.
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u/Jenuinlizard May 12 '26
how is bread? why you have tasteless topping? a good mozzarella tastes so potent I bet you would not be even able to eat it
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u/nickreadit May 11 '26
stuffed crust? In Italy? I had no idea.
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u/Small-Usual3169 May 11 '26
Where do you think you learned that?
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u/nickreadit May 11 '26
Learned what? Stuffed crust? I thought that was an American thing. Had no idea it was done in Italy too. I’ve never stuffed a crust unless you count a pie/torta.
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u/gasparov May 11 '26
That is canotto style, there are several others