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A pizza in DeKalb Market Hall Room, joined by Anthony Falco and Andrew W.

K.

Anthony is an international pizza consultant.

The former pizzas are at Roberto's Andrew, you know from hits like Party Hard.

She is beautiful.

The new album, You're Not Alone is out now, and today what we're gonna be doing is the ultimate party hack.

We're gonna be recreating two of Pizza Hut's most iconic menu items, cutting out the middleman.

No delivery charge.

Today we do it all ourselves.

But before we fire up the oven, Andrew, your pizza credentials, their vast.

You have a pizza, electric guitar.

Gee note Speaker, the Chicago Pizza Summit, the professor of partying.

So I need to know what's the difference between a pizza party and just eating a pizza by yourself?

Is there a difference?

Vural difference.

Village difference.

It's the same thing.

Every party is a pizza party, even if there isn't pizza there.

Even if there aren't other people there, Even if there's just a pizza sitting alone in the room, that pizza is having a pizza party by itself.

Today.

We're going in the time machine.

We're traveling back to the nineties Pizza Hut's heyday.

What did they get right about pizza?

Back in the day, the affiliation with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comes up.

Yes, that was awesome.

I feel like they had the best mozzarella and they had the most buttery golden brown crust.

That was like, really the best thing.

What the hell happened?

I mean, I think just there's been a race to the bottom with ingredients.

Well, today we're reversing course.

It's gonna be a childhood staple for doing Pan Pizza Pizza Hut style.

We're also doing stuffed crust Pizza Hut style, and then we're gonna do something the world has never seen before.

They're gonna have to stick around for that exciting development.

Ready, Get started.

I'm ready.

Let's go.

Here we are with Pizza Hut's greatest hit.

It's the pan pizza.

What makes this special?

I put a lot of fat in there, so there's olive oil, and then there is actual butter in the dough riel butter in the dough.

First thing we do is defined the crust, cause if you remember in the pizza pan pizza, there was this really nice ring of crust.

There was very little sauce in a pizza hut pizza.

Something to keep the massive amounts of cheese to the dough.

We've got two different kinds of mozzarella here.

This is fresh mozzarella that I pulled from Kurt.

And then I've got kind of a low moisture pizzeria Shredded cheese here.

I know.

Over here we have a chaperone.

Ease.

At what point is a pepperoni pizza become a pepperoni lovers pizza?

I think you mean by that.

Stop.

Sign it.

As soon as you start like doubling up on pepperoni like there's a pepperoni layer.

And then there's one on top of that during the lovers.

Okay, Good.

The pepperoni lovers lane, That looks nice.

You got kind of like a supreme situation.

Yeah, veggie lover's pepperoni lovers.

Yeah.

Here we are.

Pan pizzas fresh out the oven in a farm on an eyeball test.

I'm impressed with us.

I mean, everyone did really well, I'm gonna go ahead and crown and drew the winter here with this beautiful pepperoni lovers Yeah, but I mean all of these we're all winners, really party, no losers at the pizza party and then off smell.

What's interesting is that has sort of a French toast quality to it is a lot of butter in there.

There's a lot of butter, but it just smells great.

It looks great.

And then the bottom There's the real pizza contest.

Golden brown and delicious, I'd say There it is.

Got a bear it in the slight moisture to Yeah, cheers, boys along the way really did reverse engineer the best of Pizza Hut.

Every bite is like 1995.

Andrew looks like Evan, an out of body experience.

Ever had better pizza?

Wow, it is also unique.

Are you kidding me?

Right now?

I'm not exaggerating.

I'm not just saying that for this role.

I kind of taken aback.

So I'm kind of having a moment to myself because when these moments come, you have to recognize them.

You have to stop an internally experience and show gratitude, or you won't get them again.

It's disrespectful to not acknowledge this level of euphoria, and it's coming from the inside out way.

Need a picture of Pepsi Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in time video game machine in combat.

It's like you were young again.

All right?

Now the pizza chain business, it's dog eat dog.

And if you recall, in the nineties, everybody was doing weird sorts of things and Pizza Hut, especially their Grand Slam, was really in the stuffed crust pizza.

And that's what we're making right now.

How do we start?

Because this is gonna be much more of a challenge than the Pan pizza I expect.

Good instinct is gonna be a lot more of a challenge.

So I've tried to do it many times.

Oh, it's always been kind of a huge failure.

So I'm really hoping this time around I've learned from some of these mistakes and we can execute it.

So this is what you would do if you were making pizza.

Normally, as you define the crust like that, but because we're doing stuffed crust, we're just gonna flatten the edge out.

Two.

We're gonna get like, a flat disk and then pick it up.

And it's kind of like a back and forth kind of you guys feeling comfortable about with this.

Yeah, I'm feeling a little uneasy and insecure.

Yeah, but that's not about the pizza.

That's just yeah, I mean, I'm watching Sean, and I'm like a shotgun up with that of a football shaped Yeah, you kind of simple shit.

And you also have a thin spot in the middle and, like, a little thick in the You want to flatten this edge out and kind of finish doing it without getting in the middle.

It all like, if you can work the hedge is kind of like this role.

The edges a little bit.

I'm not doing very well, but I'm glad he's ignoring me again.

Similar situation.

Thin middle and the flat.

Now because we're stuffing the crust, we really want to get it flattened out on the edge.

A little bit are those are stretched their flat.

It's time for a swap it Are we ready to stuff our crust?

Yes, I made string cheese last night.

I took fresh mozzarella, just shaped it into like Plato, shaped it into snakes, snakes.

So I think the key years that we're gonna want to get a good seal if we can make it into a pizza that comes out of the oven I'm gonna be pretty surprised, Sean.

I'm loving your crimping.

I mean, you've made a pie before.

Now we can make it a top it.

Let's kick it up a little bit.

We got some garlic butter here, and I'm Whoa, Just get a brush The crap.

Where's that come from?

Right.

Whoa.

Did I mention it's on?

Lee ever fucked up?

What?

I've made this before in the past.

Stuffed crust.

It's out of the oven.

Let's pop it up for an ID test these puppies.

It's like when we pop those pan pizzas out.

It really looked like a Pizza Hut.

Pan pizza?

Yes.

This is more of a Frankenstein.

Yeah, I've never seen a pizza that looks like this, but that's not to take away from the tape because it might be delicious.

Still lovable.

To test the stuffed crust, we have to eat it backwards.

It's using duty.

Yeah, I'd say our biggest failure here is you've got some leakage.

It's burst the levee.

And it started to get into the center where we already had a lot of cheese.

We did not need more.

What do you think Pizza Hut was doing that they're able to get that quality control on stuffed crust for all those years, probably it was frozen by being frozen.

By the time the crust was finished cooking, then the Montreuil inside would be just the right temperature of like stretching and pulling without running out.

It doesn't matter because even if it all runs together, it's all good ingredients.

They're all in one place, and they all are going to the same place which eventually is the toilet, I guess, in a respectful way.

Pizza Hut and chains in general, they've gotten very daring with their offerings.

So today, what are we doing to just go out there?

To just get weird with pizza?

Is undisputedly the most fun food in the world.

But the second most, in my opinion, would be tacos and Andrew.

I know you've got a pizza guitar.

Yes, and you also have a taco guitar.

That is right, because I feel exactly the same way.

These are the two parties foods in the world crossed with the party ist instrument, at least the most portable party instrument guitar.

So why not have an electric taco pizza guitar?

Why not have an electric pizza?

Could talk And why not make an electric taco pizza?

Well, all of that inspiration in mind, we are going to be making a taco pizza with nacho bite crust.

Oh, I'm gonna start in the middle with some whipped cream wove.

It has lime zest in it.

It's a great way to apply a creamy base, but have it not run all over the place because, as everyone knows, pizzas flat.

Is this sweet like?

Well, there's I just didn't add sugar.

I added salt and lime zest and it's gonna give it kind of like lie me creamy base for the chorizo to sit into.

So I've got some jalapenos, which I pickled yesterday.

I have my own recipe because I feel very strongly about, uh, jalape o.

So now I've got my re fried black beans.

I'm gonna do little dollops around the edge, right?

A lot of pizza purists might be rolling in their graves.

Seen something?

I think I'm losing followers right now.

You're scoring the crust.

I mean, I think this is how it's done.

I don't know.

So then we're gonna like we're gonna make, like, a little star pattern.

This is fancy.

Yes, a little nacho bites.

Is this indicative of what pizza makers do after hours?

Is this the kind of experimenting that goes during hours were high enough?

How weird have you gotten with this before?

I've done a lot of drugs and made pizzas on acid.

One time I put peeps on a pizza.

That was a terrible idea for take a look at the eye test.

So excited to see this come out and keep its shape.

I mean, yeah, it worked.

It's a taco pizza.

I'm gonna finish it.

Now with a few more ingredients.

I'm gonna add some fresh cilantro on there.

And the whole thing.

Some lime pickled onions, which were really nice.

Some sour cream lattice pattern.

Wow.

Craziness.

I feel like we went back in time only to travel into the future.

Getting really a year 3000 with this one way.

Either made the greatest party food of all time or an abomination.

One abomination again.

Oh, wow.

The flavors are really there.

No lime.

It is.

You have some sweetness.

You have some heat.

Creaminess.

Creaminess is in there.

It just tastes like a party to change as you bite down the butt.

of the slice.

You get different things each in each bite.

You get the nacho bite your ears case good.

It's just confusing.

Like I'm eating nachos, but I'm not.

It's sending a lot of messages.

Thes pizzas that have never been done before, leased by us.

Yeah, and I would say we were at least two for three.

Yes, Andrew, what did you learn today?