Video: Heston Blumenthal's Quest for the Perfect Pizza

In the comments of Kenji's latest Pizza Lab post, SE'r Godot mentions Heston Blumenthal's quest for the perfect pizza from his series In Search of Perfection. It's a great opportunity to resurface these videos from a couple years ago for those who missed the episode.

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6 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, September 13, 2010 at 7:20 PM
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Video: Heston Blumenthal Makes Pizza

Reader Z. B. emailed with links to the following videos, saying, "Wonder if you've seen this? Interesting idea with the tomato vine and upside-down skillet." I've actually seen the upside-down skillet thing when Nick Kindelsperger wrote about this broiled pizza hack for Serious Eats last year. It's a cool trick that British überchef Heston Blumenthal, came up with, using the skillet as a superhot base to cook the pizza on. But the tomato vine trick is new to me and pretty cool. Readers, Blumenthal posits that much of the flavor we associate with tomatoes is in the vine, and...

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3 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, August 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM
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