Pizzeria LaFerrera 2016 Year in Review

Pizza Stats

After making 256 pizzas, we did some math to see how that adds up.

292

Pounds of pizza eaten

That's the average weight of a football linebacker.

208

Square Feet of Pizza

That's the size of studio apartment in Manhattan.

62

Different kinds of pizza made

That's a lot of dumb puns.

Saucy!

Red

White

Green

Top Ten

margherita

39

salambees

22

goatpointer

19

Trans ham

14

cacio e pepe

12

kraftwerk

9

darth tater

8

cheezus

8

gabbaghouls

7

mount nduja

7

Meat or Nah?

Meat

Vegan

Veg

6

Vegan Pizzas

Some people just don't eat cheese.

10

Square pies

Grandma would be proud.

112

Crusts consumed by our dog

There's probably more that we don't know about.

Ingredients

Making pizza every week takes a lot of ingredients, here's the breakdown of provisions we went through.

104

pounds of flour

That's 21 bags of flour.

64

pounds of mozzerella

That's the weight of an Irish Setter

5.4

Gallons of Water

That's... uh... like 5 gallons of milk.

We used 2 gallons of olive oil,

made mozzarella 4 times from scratch,

went through 6 pounds of salt,

used 14 pounds of sausage,

drank 624 beers,

and 54 bottles of wine were opened.

Tomatoes

During the year we tried out a bunch of different tomatoes, and finally settled on a brand we liked.

Cento

Scalfini

Rienzi

Nina

Tuttorosso

San Marzano

Luigi Vitelli

Mutti

Guests

Every week we tried to invite at least 4 people to come over for dinner, here's a graph of who came with who.

#1

Jade N

Jade came 9 times in 2016.

3964

Miles travelled for pizzas

Berlin is really far away.

98

Different people came

And we'd gladly have any of you back in a heartbeat.

Amaro

The only thing that settles a belly full of pizza is some nice amaro. Here are some of the brands we tried this year. We enjoyed them all.

St Agrestis

Arcane Fernet

Nonino

Sibilla

Sfumato

Fernet Leopold

Underberg

Our go to after dinner drink is still a tiny bottle of Underberg. We've been saving the caps to get a little truck.

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* 108 caps collected

Ünderdog

We made our own amaro, and named it after our dog, Booger.

gentian root
sage
rosemary
mint
chamomille
cardamon
cinnamon
star anise

hyssop
cloves
orange zest
allspice
szechuan peppercorn
oak chips
polish vodka

Popup

Our friends at The Meathook invited us to host a popup at their sandwich shop. It was a ton of work but a lot of fun.

MVP

Sam P

Runner up: Jessica A

45

pizzas made

That's on top of the 256 we made at home.

36

pizza pans purchased

We're ready for our next popup.

56 people came.

Jason drank 2 five-hour-energy drinks,

and 4tbsp of DayQuil.

Basic Instinct Running Time : 2 hours 8 minutes.

3 gallons of melted ice cream.

$312.00 raised for Booger's College Fund.

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