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The cost of home made pizza

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  • studentphil
    studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
    So making the base yourself proves cheaper still.

    I assume that is using flour and water, maybe butter???

    It is yonks since I made a pizza base- forgot what goes in??????
    :beer:
  • wigginsmum
    wigginsmum Posts: 4,150 Forumite
    squeaky wrote:
    Hm...

    HM pizza dough using value flour = 5p
    ( a standard mix makes two bases in my machine)

    Good call - I was estimating how much flour costs as I haven't bought any for a while. That would bring mine to a total of £0.70 or just over 10p a slice. I can live with that.
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  • Pink.
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    So making the base yourself proves cheaper still.

    I assume that is using flour and water, maybe butter???

    It is yonks since I made a pizza base- forgot what goes in??????


    If you want to make your own pizza bases again :) these older threads might help you:

    HM Pizza bases

    HM Pizza Dough

    Pink
  • squeaky
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    So making the base yourself proves cheaper still.

    I assume that is using flour and water, maybe butter???

    It is yonks since I made a pizza base- forgot what goes in??????

    Yeah, to make a scone base you can get away with SR flour and water only, but a fat helps. A glug of cheap vegetable oil will work just as well, and it's what I normally use. I costed, for a two base mix, 1/3rd of a pack of value flour (27p) = 9p plus a penny for the oil. Total = 10p (not counting a pinch of salt) so it's five pence per base.

    As for a yeast based one - plain flour is fine and, as has been said above, you can source free yeast from most (some?) supermarket bakery counters.
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  • Diamonds_2
    Diamonds_2 Posts: 2,580 Forumite
    I tried making homemade pizza bases a couple of months ago and what a terrible time I had.. the whole kitchen was a blur of flour, I was covered head to toe in it :o we only have a small kitchen and I was so stressed with kids and OH coming to look at the state of me I sent them all out for half an hour. I used that yeast that isn't fresh (can't remember the name of it) with warm water but the base did not rise one bit. I was putting the bases in the oven covered with toppings and you should have seen the state of them, they were also as hard as anything - inedible actually. I was pretty gutted about it cos my kitchen needed a proper scrubbing, I needed a scrubbing and we were all starving and had to have beans on toast or summat. Phil, I like your way of doing it with the baguette.
  • I have tried making pizza bases using wholemeal flour. Ended up crumbly and hard, ended up phoning out for one in the end!!!
  • elona
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    I make pizza dough in my breadmaker and it turns out really well - so far!
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  • Katgoddess
    Katgoddess Posts: 1,821 Forumite
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    I make a chapatis type base for pizza when I'm in a hurry using this recipe.

    Just flour, olive oil and water. You could just use cheap veg oil.
  • studentphil
    studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
    I started using a French stick once when my Mum got a french stick and she did not eat it, so it was going hard and I thought try it for pizza--- comes out well.

    Might need a tiny bit of oil on it if it is hard.

    Greegs charge a pound a slice for french bread pizza, so it just shows what you save if you make it yourself.
    :beer:
  • You can buy ready made cheese and tomatoe pizza at Morrisons for 89p or 3 for £2, less than 70p for a whole pizza.

    Way less than 25p a slice. ( sometimes on sell off day I have bought these for 25p a pizza. )

    They usually come with about 50p worth of grated cheese on top so the value takes some beating hard to make your own that cheap.

    You also don't waste any of your own time.

    I note some replies haven't allowed in costings for tomatoes or cheese or even cost of electicity or their time.
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