Cinco de Mayo report

[Stan]

Hi All,

I'm still recovering from last Wednesday! We had around 42 people with cars lined up street. Word of mouth spread and the party got pretty big pretty fast. I had gazpacho, manchego, chips, and a large chicken/sausage paella ready when people started getting there. The little Primavera oven was fully fired in about 40 minutes, and pizza making started outside at about 6:30.

It was frustratingly slow at first. The dough was too sticky, and nobody wanted to touch anything. I would cook one pizza while stretching/making another. Once people realized that they could do it too, things took off. I had three people stretching dough/making pizzas while I loaded, cooked, and unloaded. We averaged 3 minutes from dough ball to fully cooked pizza, and easily made 40 pies in around 2 hours. The Primavera was the "little oven that could," and it cooked them as fast as I could get them in there.

Lessons learned:
1. Have designated deputies to help get people into the swing of making their own pizzas.

2. More beer outside for the cook! Oven-cooking is hot work.


A great time was had by all and the cops weren't called. I'd call that a successful evening.

Stan

[fxpose]

Sounds like you all had a lot of fun!
I think you should also get a designated deputy to take pictures of the event.

[Stan]

Good call! Alas, I was so busy and everyone else was drinking so much vino that no pictures were had

[lwood]

Hot work indeed