Just for Show A coffee too warm.

[Gary Ayala]

Yep, Pizza Sauce is a tomato base sauce ladled on ... mmmh ... maybe 80+% of all commercial pizzas in the USA. I know technically the difference between a pizza and a flatbread is yeast ... but personally, I like to think the dif is a pizza has pizza sauce while flatbread is sans pizza sauce. It is my understanding pizza sauce is similar to marinara, but pizza sauce is thicker to better maintain a foothold on the bread. Pizza sauce is cooked simultaneously with the pizza bread and toppings, while marinara is used more as a final topping/dipping sauce.

Gianluca, as you live in the birthplace of modern pizza, how do you and Italians in general, cook/enjoy your pizza?


One of many commercial pizza sauces available for purchase. They come in different flavors. (The above is $2.92 USD a jar on Amazon.)

 

[Gary Ayala]

Today, coffee in the back.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Gianluca, as you live in the birthplace of modern pizza, how do you and Italians in general, cook/enjoy your pizza?

We use plain tomato (but not all pizzas use tomato).

 

[Gary Ayala]

We use plain tomato (but not all pizzas use tomato).

Maybe I'll make pizza/flatbread tonight. ...

 

[Gary R. Smith]

Is 'pizza sauce' a real thing in the Americas

Indeed it is Gianluca. Every company that sells a prepared marinara sauce usually also has a spicier variety they call pizza sauce.

This thread seems to have strayed wildly from coffee.

 

[Gary Ayala]

Indeed it is Gianluca. Every company that sells a prepared marinara sauce usually also has a spicier variety they call pizza sauce.
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This thread seems to have strayed wildly from coffee.

I dunno ... cold, soggy morning pizza goes well with coffee ...



Todays first cup.

 

[Gary Ayala]

Gary's second cup.

 

[Gary Ayala]

Today's late contribution.

Coffee, via the French Press, being poured into my travel thermos. (Click to Expand.)