Have you ever tried to make a homemade pizza and it was a flop

United States
August 26, 2010 11:46pm CST
When I was younger and my hubby and I were really stretching money and groceries, we tried to make a pizza with the pizza mix crust, ketchup instead of sauce, American cheese and bologna. Looking back now I can laugh at that adventure. If you haven't tried it, don't. It tastes really bad. We ended up throwing it outside for the animals and they would not even eat it. That night we ate ramen noodles instead. Have you ever tried to be creative when making a pizza and it totally flopped? Tell me your pizza stories. :)
7 responses
mercho
@mercho (33)
• Argentina
28 Aug 10
I've never had problems when making a homemade pizza, I use only "natural" ingredients, because I don't trust in those mixes, I use yeast,flour,and for the sauce only smashed tomatoes and some spices,and mozzarela to finish it.
lindaharding627
@lindaharding627 (1442)
• United States
29 Aug 10
That sounds good but I have never really made dough from scratch. I wouldn't know how to go about it. Even if I make a homemade crust, I use bisquick or jiffy mix lol. That is something mom never taught me.
mercho
@mercho (33)
• Argentina
29 Aug 10
my mom never taught me either, grandma did lol... I think is better, it has that flavor that nothing else can gives you, and of course if you have guests they will apreciate more your effort...
ANSHULMAHAJAN
@ANSHULMAHAJAN (703)
• United Arab Emirates
27 Aug 10
One thing is there if go To a restaurant foe anything we always think why can't we make this at home, that's where alll the problem starts....... Hahahahah we tried that somany things and ... Piazza was one of the thing that day the first pizza was not cooked so well before we could take that out it alll fell on the floor. The next was outer cooked and that too it was happening in front of guests ... We ended up ordering if from outside....
lindaharding627
@lindaharding627 (1442)
• United States
27 Aug 10
I have been there and done that. The crust is really doughy if you don't let it cook long enough and it doesn't taste good at all. We have ordered out before too after having a pizza flop.
doggieMJ
@doggieMJ (55)
• United States
11 Sep 10
when i was a litte kid, i tried making pizza with a slice of bread. it will only work with ketchup if you use american chesse and use chicken as a topping, it actually didnt come out pretty bad! i also love making the crust myself, from scratch, (remember that im 13) , and then putting marinara sauce and mozzerella chesse!! 10x better than pizza hut!! :D
hardworkinggurl
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
27 Aug 10
Hey I love ketchup. but on pizza oh I just can imagine it being so great as I would have been just like your dog and sniffed and run away. I have used ketchup in spaghetti though and yuck, yuck it was horrible. I suppose it has to with heating the ketchup that then makes it taste really yucky.
lindaharding627
@lindaharding627 (1442)
• United States
27 Aug 10
I love ketchup too but I never tried it in spaghetti. I think I will stay away from it in spaghetti too lol. As you said it doesn't taste good heated.
xenzhi
@xenzhi (59)
• Philippines
27 Aug 10
I tried making homemade pizza once before as a child. I don't have the necessary ingredients to make one so I ended up using a slice of bread as my pizza base. I used ketchup as well and for the toppings, well, I just put together whatever I could find lying around in the refrigerator. After that I placed the "pizza" in the toaster but it ended up getting slightly burnt. It was still edible though since it tasted kinda good when I tried it. XD
lindaharding627
@lindaharding627 (1442)
• United States
27 Aug 10
I am glad yours was edible because ours sure was not. I don't think ketchup works too well as a sauce. It is meant to be used for dipping. The combination that we tried was bad because American cheese is oily and the ketchup was sweet but the bologna is salty. I learned from that though :)
smilemoon
@smilemoon (766)
• United Arab Emirates
26 Mar 12
Yes, I tried it before but now I forgot how did I make it LOl.
emarie
@emarie (5442)
• United States
28 Aug 10
I have, I've made it several times. The problem with mine is that it was a square and the crust was never as good as those take out places. I made homemade crusts. It turned out okay. I've used ketchup before too when I ran out of tomato sauce but I added some salt and seasonings to make it level out. Browned some breakfast sausage too once to place on and I used regular onions instead of red onions. I've never gotten too creative. I always had Mozzarella cheese in the house from WIC so I never used American. Next time if you're in a pinch you can use tortillas for the crust.