Mystic Pizza

I made some pizzas using crusts I made using Martha Stewart's recipe from Everyday Food. I topped them with mozzarella cheese, tomato slices and basil. I used too much cheese and when the crusts rose and the cheese melted everything slid off the crust onto the pan. Charred cheese is a treat so it wasn't a disaster.

It looked like a time-lapse movie subject.

So I made pizzas again and used too much cheese so it would all slide off the crust. I put the convection oven on the counter and set up the camera and recorded the cheeseslide.

The sun was coming in through the kitchen window and lighting everything up. The reflections on the door of the oven make things kind of hard to see well. You get to see me reflected in the door now and then.

So I did it again some time later. This time I waited till the sun wasn't going to light things up and I hung a dark towel in the area the oven's door was going to be reflecting. We can see into the oven a bit better this time. I baked two pizzas this time. Mine is on top with the bonus cheese. Jerry's is on the bottom with enough cheese for the pizza without making a mess.

The mess is what all this was about.

I had the camera snap away at one frame per second and I play them back at 24 frames per second. We see the pizzas bake in less than 45 seconds.