Talk:Pizza

Baking directly on metal

Many home cooks and professional pizzerias bake directly on metal (in fact it's called a "pizza steel" for home cooks), and stating it burns the crust is incorrect. In fact, the article cited specifically is about Neopolitan style pizza which bakes at temperatures much hotter than other styles.~2026-23780-27 (talk) 02:50, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Etymology

The Etymological Dictionary of the Italian Language goes as follows:

"Detto per "pinza", che dura in alcuni dialetti, probabilmente da "pìnsere", pigiare, pestare, onde anche lo spagnolo "pisar", calpestare: sinonimo di "schiacciata" (v. pestare). Specie di focaccia.."

("Used as "pinza", which is still common in some dialects, allegedly from "pìnsere", to press, to mash, whence Spanish "pisar", to stamp (on sth), as well: synonym for "schiacciata" (see pestare). Sort of focaccia..")

Now, the source used in the Wikipedia article has it that "pinza" means clamp, "as in modern Italian "pinze", pliers, pincers, tongs, forceps". Albeit technically true, this explanation is actually misleading because the word "pinza" does not refer to the meaning of clamp in this context. It refers to the past participle of the verb "pinsere", which is basically "pinsa" (feminine form) and of which "pinza" was a vernacular variation: it is supposed to be intended as "pressed, pinched (dough)", due to the method used to work the dough by pressing and pinching it by hand. That's why the Etymological Dictionary of the Italian Language alleges that it is a synonym for "schiacciata", which literally means "pressed" in modern Italian as well.

Similar to this meaning, Italy has several flatbreads that translate as "pressed" or "pinched", such as the Sicilian scaccia, the Tuscan schiacciata or the Roman pinsa. ~2026-25385-87 (talk) 07:15, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 April 2026

i want to write about pizza it is delicious and juicy and almost everybody like it. There can be many kinds of pizza there can be chese pizza, peparoni pizza, hawaii and many many more you can also customize your own pizza and make your own flavors and put all the topings you want on it f.e. If i dont like peparoni i can make a pizza without peparoni. My personal favorite is probally a peparoni pizza with bacon on it, so a pizza with tomato sauce, chese, peparoni and bacon. it is very simple to make a pizza. ~2026-25705-80 (talk) 09:43, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

 Not done No change specified. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:55, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Wikilink

Please put the Neapolitan pizza wikilink as the first use, not the second, in Pizza#Varieties and styles. ~2026-37166-54 (talk) 02:00, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

Interesting. Reason? Augmented Seventh (talk) 02:05, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:MOS#wikilink.

"Frozen pizza" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Frozen pizza has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 July 20 § Frozen pizza until a consensus is reached. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 20:12, 20 July 2026 (UTC)