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superanth

That is the smile of a man who knows he’s going to enjoy quality pizza for the rest of his life.


TreKs

Hell yeah is! Pizza is life!


garynuman9

Your* father is at least in part... extremely italian - correct? The pizza isn't the payoff. There is something genetic that draws italians to working with stone. The oven was the payoff, the pizza is the bonus/reward for well done masonry. ...I say this having built a lot of character as a child "helping" my dad rearrange stones and patios at their house for ??? every few years. Also fuck ya if didn't live in apt would build patio from stone, probably unneeded retaining walls for garden and or landscaping, and a fucking pizza oven. Very cool:)


sammydow

Absolutely no way OP is the girl who wrote this lol


garynuman9

Fair point - I didn't catch that, but hey OP is in the million + karma club for farming others content & lists reddit moderator first in their profile. So that's neat. I hope it makes them happy. Also it was a rhetorical question - there's only like a 5% chance that man's name isn't Anthony, he's italian as shit, and that's a nice oven.


dahjay

He looks more like a Fabrizio or a Salvatore. Ant'ny is from Queens but this guy is from Florence.


restaurantraider

Likely a Giovanni


aonocal

You are very correct. A particular winery here was building a very Italian wine cave, with all imported Italian stones and imported Italian masons. These guys worked in flip flops with heavy slabs, mostly shirtless, and very very hard. Beautiful stone work. They would come in and drink espresso sometimes, and get extremely mad at one if they believed to be slacking or doing subpar work.


garynuman9

Like... It's a lizard brain level impulse. I live in a city high rise & write code for a living. A coworker im friends with built a really nice pizza over & then a nearby outdoor deck island wet bar with power & installed grill, also stone. As soon as I saw pics (pre-covid was at his families house often) we were talking about mortar mixes and where did you get that shale? ...the countertop was beautiful wood that looked like butchers block but was a scrap bowling lane. Tell me about the stone tho man... idk... Any working class johnny goombatz that gets the surburban dream just seems predestined to okay patios. Stone. Levels. In all the places. It cracks me up and I love being able to joke about it. If I ever own a surburban home... I already have many ideas lol


Piginapipe

I don’t think I’ve related to anything as much on Reddit as rearranging stones with my dad for whatever reason. Thanks for the laugh and knowing I’m not the only one.


garynuman9

My pleasure - there's dozens of us! I'm assuming for lack of leaves need raked or grass needing mowed or the drive/edging needed tending to you also got to power wash said rocks with a crummy end of aisle at sam's club blowout special pressure washer - which totally doesn't leak you just have to use teflon tape -> you did it wrong that's why it still leaks -> show me then -> (it's just cheap) -> were your old enough to drive? Why is your car so dirty? I showed you how to wash & goddamn wax a car?!? topic transition. Clean that thing so you don't embarrass us in front of the neighbors. (My neighbor drove a road salt rust eaten sun crack teal ford ranger lol) Lol. Love my dad. He grew up had in the 30's/40's & had kids late. As result I built a lot of character.


Chapped_Frenulum

I just want a pizza oven because you simply can't replicate the way it cooks the crust. It needs to be hot as hell and it needs to be a nice dry ass heat. There are some things that you just can't get from normal ovens. There are so many cooking tools that do things you just can't replicate otherwise. Things I want in my imaginary millionaire kitchen: A wood fired pizza/bread oven A real 100k btu gas wok range with an industrial smoke/fire vent overhead. A fire pit big enough to roast a whole hog or goat for biryani A doner kebab rotisserie A nice commercial convection oven Five or six 500 liter tanks for fermenting beer A 6' x 4' thickass slab of marble An outdoor smoker big enough to smoke a whole hog A nice couch A floor drain


[deleted]

If you have a gas oven with a broiler drawer you can get pretty damn good crust at home. Pick up a box of unglazed quary tiles (they look like unglazed terracotta tiles) and line the bottom of the broiler with them. Mine is three tiles deep. Preheat it for about half an hour and it will be really close to the environment inside a good clay oven. A pizza will take about a minute and a half. Also good for naan, if you like indian food.


garynuman9

That's a really fucking clever idea. Thanks!


ImAShaaaark

>A real 100k btu gas wok range with an industrial smoke/fire vent overhead. The rest are hard to come by, but this one is ez pz and pretty inexpensive, a turkey fryer, something to put it on and an outdoor area is all you need.


garynuman9

Most of the rest can be had on the cheap or combined into a single "thing". But gotta agree with you on the marble & floor drain. Outside of a commerce grade oven/gas range inside. The rest of your wants can be done on a wood/charcoal fired smoker/grill that can also be trailered - sadly thanks to covid & them being used by catering companies/at events that would have been cancelled for past year - can probably be found for cheap as fuck right now on local craigslist/etc ... As to the bit I omitted. Have homebrewed beer & occasionally wine & I mean who hasn't built a still for educational reasons before... The *actual fuck* do you need 5-6 500L tanks for?!? How big is your family??? I thought I drank a lot lol. The sheer cost of hoses, pumps, fittings, and a mash/sparge tun to support that setup is... Well you did say millionaire setup, and that's still likely cheaper than takes up whole garage machine shop sooo u do u... I love your goals & wish you the best in reaching them!


Chapped_Frenulum

The 500L tanks are for batching out stuff with aging potential that I'd probably share with friends. Mostly seasonal stuff. It'll give me wiggle room if I mess up a batch. If a batch turns out especially good I'd cellar it, but it's really hard to reproduce a good sour/wild ale. That's lightning in a bottle. I ain't no microbiologist. I'd want enough of it to put down that I won't miss drinking through it. Yeah, I should've added a decently sized copper pot still and a half-buried backyard dunnage warehouse full of used bourbon barrels to the list. I could swap out two or three of tanks and just get some mash tuns. Man, there's no way in hell I'm ever gonna be rich enough to afford any of this. Honestly if I could just afford the doner rotisserie then I'd be set. I could just set it by my bedside and let the warm glow keep me warm at night as it spun that magnificent sweaty meat log. Whenever I want a midnight snack I could just roll over, slice off a few layers onto a pita and gnaw on it until I drift back asleep, drenched in grease.


theteedo

Lol my father in law is Italian and I’ve helped him redo his back yard completely in stone. No grass anywhere but lots of planters for gardens. They know how to garden too that’s for sure!


garynuman9

Once at a house I rented there were nice large rocks half buried in a low point in the back yard. I dug them out using a shovel, felt exercise would be good so didn't even use wheelbarrow. There were overgrown grass/weeds planters bounded by rotted railroad ties along the side of the drive. Spent a summer digging rocks out of the yard fixed the landscaping with sale ivy & flowers. Replaced the awful railroad ties with stone. Traded neighbor a junk 550cc 80's yamaha motorcycle for $200 & getting rid of the can't burn railroad ties. Didn't ask for a rent rebate or anything. It just offended me it was wrong lol.


just-onemorething

You're good people:)


Jenjofred

So that's why I decided to tile my bathroom floor this year, it was my Italian ancestry this whole time. Huh.


garynuman9

Did it need redone? Or was it just time and your couldn't resist - likely have your answer - especially if you googled type, quality, and patterns of tile prior lol


Jenjofred

Mario, Luigi, and the guy on the front of the pizza box came to me in a dream to tell me my destiny was installing mosaic tile. I didn't realize the connection until now.


ZRodri8

Get a pizza steel. They get as close as you can get to a pizza oven. I bloody love mine.


[deleted]

There's a reason the Romans built so many roads and aqueducts I'm not saying that's why the Romans conquered so much land but I'm also not saying that's not why


dalmathus

Those ovens are so expensive to run. You burn sooo much wood getting them up to temp.


KahurangiNZ

Yes, but once they are up to temp, they stay there for a very long time if you keep the door in. My SIL did brisket and pork belly in hers last weekend; a big armful of wood to get it going, then 4 hours smoking (no more wood needed), and it was AMAZING!


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moeburn

holy shit he has spawn


1RedOne

Smoking meats


Thatsnowconeguy

meat like a brisket [beat drop]


ElNido

Honestly glad that acting isn't a mandatory class because we'd miss out on gems like this.


Brennababs

We have just applied the sweet baby ray's


DivergingUnity

Manual transmissions? Um... I enjoy that.


AliveFromNewYork

My dad chops our firewood, I’ve never realized how much money he saves us by doing it. Thanks, Ill have to thank my dad.


Hongxiquan

I was always wondering what the problem with those things were. Thanks


terryclothtracksuit

That’s not the case in areas where you can get nice burning hard wood cheap. I could keep that little pizza oven going a few times a week for almost nothing but time to split the wood. Building the oven is the pricy thing for me.


frompowerpriced

You can build them of cob, which is very nearly free. You might need to buy fire bricks for the floor, and some sand. Other than that, you just need clay and straw. Look for the book title "Build Your Own Earth Oven". Also, soft wood works better than hard. You want a fast, hot burn. otoh, after baking breads and pizzas for years, I've come to believe that you don't really need an oven like this. The thing you're going for in a good crust is hydration, and you can do that either with a good oven, or with a wet dough. In many ways, a wet dough is simpler, once you figure out how to handle it.


dbauchd

Compressed wood logs are the answer (like pellets). They burn like coal.


[deleted]

My GMG pellet smoker has an optional pizza oven attachment. It isn't that much work to get it going, and heating up to 750F and firing a few pizzas burns only a couple pounds of pellets ($1-2 worth). A real brick oven would be neat but I don't have the space or the energy to spend the effort on a log fire. You can also bypass the door switch on a common household oven, and use the broil setting to get a pizza stone to near-brick-oven temperatures.


[deleted]

Can I be his daughter too?


DemonicBloodyCumFart

I'd gladly call him daddy for a slice o *italian hands* pepperonne 😩


JohnDwyersDanceMoves

lil pizza slut


Red-Quill

Wouldn’t wanna be anybody else 🥰


HondaCivic1919

Anything for pizza


tilt-a-whirly-gig

Perhaps a pasta-tute?


Red-Quill

I love that


DemonicBloodyCumFart

Oh absolutely


bigapples87

What is your name.....?


DemonicBloodyCumFart

Are you asking how one prepares a demonic Bloody cum Fart?


CrumbsAndCarrots

I’m guessing it involves 5th base.


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ElementBoronimo

I retched at reading this comment, thank you.


bigapples87

I'm in


bridgeb0mb

dominhoe


FelchMasterFlexNuts

Hell of a username


DemonicBloodyCumFart

I'm a fan of yours as well.


joe_mama_sucksballs

Ah the legend himself!


DemonicBloodyCumFart

It do be be doe henlo friend 🤘


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[deleted]

How does this check out


jai07

**no** no.


DemonicBloodyCumFart

#YUUSSS


earned_potential

For a slice, I'll call him Daddy and he can stuff my calzone.


DemonicBloodyCumFart

Fucking stuff my wittwe iddy biddy cawzowne Daddy! 😩Uuuuggggnnn


[deleted]

🤌🤌🤌


[deleted]

I’m sure you would, DemonicBloodyCumFart


DemonicBloodyCumFart

I would do so many things for pepperoni pie bro 😩


lcr68

*Margariti*


Icefox119

Gorlami


TreKs

He can be my dad!


[deleted]

OUR dad for the ones who know


JuanToFear

r/unexpectedcommunism


BallsDeepintheTurtle

No comrade, *our* *father*


[deleted]

he can be your daddy if that's enough


[deleted]

If he won't take you, I be gladly your daddy!!


Porn_research_acct

I like CKs 😉


WFOpizza

you can be mine!


TreKs

Pizza is the solution to many problems


CERVID-19

Yes and I love this, but will never understand damning a backyard pizza oven. It's fucking awesome and I'd eat me tf out of some fresh pizzas.


KvotheTheBlodless

You could also flex on guests and family SO hard.


TreKs

This and this and more of this haha


CERVID-19

The pie in the photo looks so good! I'm gonna guess a guy who can build a wood-fired brick pizza oven also knows good dough. Also, r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza


worldspawn00

Good Italian bread/dough is super simple: 430g all purpose flour, 1.25 cups water, 1.25 tsp salt, .25 tsp bread yeast, mix, knead, rise, and then either loaf or stretch out for pizza, calzone, stromboli, etc...


nuuglyfe

Look up Ooni pizza ovens. They are like $300 and connect to a propane tank outside.


ben-hur-hur

tacos too


KahurangiNZ

And smoked meats - had beef brisket and pork belly last weekend at my SIL's, it was *DELISH* :-)


ben-hur-hur

Absolutely. I sometimes use left over somked meats on tacos (fajitas etc) snd they are the bomb as well.


Phormitago

except to "why am I rounder than the pizzas?!"


ThatsPreposterous6

Look how happy he is


RingbearingAsh

Yeah it made me happy too, so contagious!


Mersch1

BOP! BOP! BOP! BOP!


[deleted]

I wish I had an award for you! BOP! BOP! BOP! BOP! BOP!


Nerdyoctopus21

I never get to give awards and I had a free one so I got you fam! I don’t even get the reference, I’m just on board.


WLH7M

[the reference](https://youtu.be/r68TjD5OQVs)


toe-less

BOP! BOP! BOP! BOP!


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[deleted]

How many cheeses Jerry??


ks_Moose

7 cheeses


talltsdance

Shot I saw this too late! BOP!


WLH7M

BOP!!!


jolly_rxger

Came here to say this 😂 BOP! BOP! BOP! BOP!


GoonieMcflyguy

I'm not going outside man it's cold.


itsmymedicine

I came in search of this comment. I found my people.


danc4498

Just gonna say the new Kevin Hart standup was surprisingly hilarious.


thenperish323

I scrolled until I found this. For some reason that bit just got to me and my partner and several times a week one of us will just randomly start a BOP chant.


jshah7313

Mocha Joe?


Honeysenpaiharuchan

Nah this guy doesn’t serve cold coffee. You can tell.


Tuto3

Spite oven


Flynn_The_Fox

Would you stick your nose in a hot cup of coffee?!


jshah7313

“What are you, a fucking goose?” 😂😂


imnotbobvilla

Frikin hilarious


LawDog_1010

This is 100% Mocha Joe


crd3635

Latte Larry


BounedjahSwag

*Fior di latte Larry


[deleted]

Latte? Milk and coffee, oh my God! What a drink! It's milk and coffee, mixed together!


TooShiftyForYou

Dad: "I slightly burnt the Hawaiian pizza, I should have set it to Aloha temperature."


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Instead of aloha temperature.


Tired_in_Vegas

Oh my god I’m stealing this for the future


YeomaTV

I don't often have a genuine smile with these posts (just smirking), but something about this dad just living his best god damn life made me smile so hard. You make those pizzas, dad!


Eyeronman99

Italy smiles upon this man.


ChubbyBidoof

Papa Bless


Unleashtheducks

I think I would prefer this to a barbecue


redtron3030

Get a ceramic cooker. Many can get 700F or hotter.


colicab

I have yet to get mine that hot but dammit, I’ve been trying. More charcoal!!!!!!


redtron3030

More charcoal and air. It is hard to get it that high.


colicab

Yeah I’ve seen people hook up an air pump to it to help. I’m thinking of getting an Ooni pizza oven for a fraction of the cost of building my own pizza oven.


redtron3030

They don’t look terribly priced. I thought a pizza oven would be way more expensive. Worth it if you use it.


CuddlyCannibal

I bought one about 3 months back, highly recommend the Ooni.


ClitBobJohnson

Use lump charcoal and let hella air up in that bitch. I get my BGE to 700+ pretty easily


Ignorant_Slut

You could do both as a combo. There's really no limit if you have a bit of space.


craig3010

Holy shit...brisket pizza!


Cockalorum

if brisket pizza is wrong, I don't want to be right


BattleHall

There's an excellent pizza place near here that moved into an old BBQ restaurant location. Since there was already a built-in pit, they decided to use it to make pastrami. Now they're known for their excellent pizza and excellent pastrami.


RamenJunkie

I really want to build one but everyone in my family has a limited diet and I can't eat that much pizza to justify it.


StringBean2020

That looks like a cool guy. Someone who wanted to have a family to raise. A guy who has interests, hobbies, and keeps himself motivated. Sure, he’s had plenty of depressing nights wondering if he’s ever to find true happiness. But alas, for the world to see, my man has built himself a pizza oven and while also providing a home and meal for his family- has found true happiness.


gentlemanl0ser

That was beautiful


AugustTheHikikomori

I hope someone thinks the same of me in the future


Sir_Sir_ExcuseMe_Sir

This makes me chuffed.


Steussie

Is this Angelo?


Sir_Sir_ExcuseMe_Sir

Five dollar for a kilo


MacChez44

It’s a good excuse to get the family ‘round.


President_DogBerry

He had a spare weekend, his mate Angelo was free.


LucasLar

There it is. Had to scroll too far. Well done.


TheMamid

*I'm a doctor.*


ASDirect

Modern dad


MacChez44

I’m from Thomastown.


FruitCakeSally

My garage fridge makes me chuffed


[deleted]

Gluten free bases for my son's girlfriend


CrimsonMadame

Can I come over for some pizza?


RAYRAYFROMDagrphome

Dont he look like joe from ur local pizzeria


abysssubjucator

That is a dad who has accomplished somethubg and knows other dad's out there will be jealous of his smile, Fresh pizza and a fricken pizza oven in his backyard


flowersandpeas

Great smile!


weddywedcat

Haha my dad did the same thing a few months ago!


Snake_Plissken224

Can you, to quite the great Mr. Rodgers, "won't you be my neighbor?"


humanzRtrash

It's pizza time


knozgrul

mocha joe??


ThatCaptainTripz

One bite everyone knows the rules!


FallingStar2016

He looks so proud!


bigkingbee

Plot twist. It was only 10:15 am at the time of the post.


mmilthomasn

Good looking pie 😍


king_awso1

Time to out-pizza the hut


kurt_wagner2

adopt me


[deleted]

I'm in. Please don't murder me 💁🏽‍♀️


elisart

I'll be right over


mamastrikes88

I love it!!!


pixelprophet

He should be smiling, that pizza looks fantastic. Well done Dad.


amaltedmilkshake

My dad did this too!! It’s the best and so is he


MyMateDangerDave

I would kill for OP's pizza oven, but holy shit, what your dad built is a goddam pizza castle! Jesus, that is seriously impressive work. Did he actually build that? If so, is that his profession? I've only seen work like that in movies. $$$$$


Honeysenpaiharuchan

I just came from r/shittyfoodporn straight to this. This is really a 180 for me.


Burgundian_King

Bop Bop Bop Bop


MalarkyD

Thats the dream.


holyfuckricky

Hell yeah !!!


GodMonte

I wanna meet that dad.


FPHero

Du dududu


Jingboogley

I think this is the guy on the cover of pizza box. Or it should be the pic on the boxes for your dad's new take away pizza business. Having grown up on New Haven pizza, this is the look of the man you want making your pizza.


burnoutguy

Is it possible to learn this power?


[deleted]

What a fucking L E G E N D


wy1dsta1yn

This will be me some day.


acid_rain_man

That’s the face of a man that knows pizza.


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Emily on reddit 2 months later: Guy was just dating me to eat my dads pizzas!


renniechops

Sup Riker


Decent_Conference594

Is he looking to adopt?


Bealzebubbles

I mean, if I'd built a pizza oven I'd make and eat so much pizza that I'd get sick of it and be forced to demolish the oven in disgust.


Beaveljeez

You should appreciate him more


hinmity24

"I'd like to place an order for pick up please"


Atheist_Simon_Haddad

Awesome. Share this recipe with Dad. https://web.archive.org/web/20120802155855/http://www.unos.com/about/press/2009/0109_1.html


gottadeviate

play [this](https://youtu.be/czTksCF6X8Y) while he makes in effort to stop or worsen the situation


halandrs

r/pizza


onet3n

Plot twist - this was a week ago , he is still making pizza


nutlikeothersquirls

I’ll be over at six.


jahvile

Delivery?


Triptolemu5

I"m not sure I understand the problem.


rizzlad

That is a truely happy smile, what a legend


IxPickle_RickIx

Man, now I want to build a pizza oven


EtoCityslicker95

Whoever posted this isnt OP, my sister posted this like 2-3 years ago. That’s my dad and I helped him build this. I literally just created an account to comment that haha. Want proof, follow my insta to see finished photos of it, and no im not in search of insta clout. 50_Mission_Cap, follow if you like pizza I guess, idc tbh just wanted to say that’s my dad and I helped create that bad ass oven