Chicago's DANKEST Secret: The Pizza Puff
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- Pizza Puffs have got to be Chicago’s most slept on delicacy. I get it, it’s no frills. The humble pizza puff is an amalgamation of modern-day food science and our unending quest for convenience in everything we do. Maybe it’s not the best food to tout as one’s own? False.
The pizza puff has got to be one of THE MOST AMERICAN things that you can put in your body. Long story short, an Assyrian immigrant named Elisha Shabaz got a job with a Mexican man selling tamales in a street cart sometime in the early 1900s. Flash forward 20 some odd years and Shabaz ends up buying the tamale business from the Mexican man and runs it with much success. Sometime in the mid-1900s, a Pizza craze hit Chicago and hotdog stands had to compete. Hotdog stand owners asked Shabaz if he could make something that could compete and BOOM! The Pizza Puff was born.
Walk into ANY hotdog stand here in Chicago and you’re going to see a pizza puff, or sometimes called “Beef/Sausage/Cheese Pies''. I’m not here to bash Shabaz and his legendary company (his little tamales are famous and dank in their own special way, too), I’m only trying to find a way to recreate the magic at home... but yes... this version slaps. You’ll just have to tell me if you think it slaps harder than the O.G. Let's cook 🤘🏼 Adam
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TIMESTAMPS:
Pizza Puff 101 (0:00)
The Filling (0:52)
The Cheese (3:45)
Support Us On Patreon! (4:01)
The Dough (4:37)
Prepare The Puff (5:40)
Fry! (6:13)
Bakey-Bakey (6:44)
Taste Test (7:03)
Parmesan-itize The Puff (8:03)
Final Thoughts (9:20)
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Fries with mild sauce in a small paper bag with the pizza puff on top with mild sauce 😊 delicious 😋
Miss the burnt roof skin and being healed by a cup of Mario's (or Annettes) Italian ice.
Gina’s on Roosevelt for me. Or Freddy’s in Cicero.
Budackis!!! I grew up a few blocks away and have always enjoyed eating there.
Adam, I love your show. I moved from Chicago 4 years ago and your videos make me feel back home. I'm making this recipe this weekend for my Chicago girl and I. Been a while since I had a good pizza puff. I haven't tracked any down here in NC. Thank you sir!
sick! Lmk how it turns out. Remember to roll that dough flat and bake them long enough to cook through. A little "gum" is acceptable (and dank).
@@AdamWitt oh yeah I'm craving that gummy dough. That's one of my favorite parts. I have the grocery list written already and will comment after I make it. Big ups my man.
Update: turned out good, I used ground coriander instead of seed and used a little too much, had I not made that mistake I think it would've been flavored very close to the classic pizza puff.
"skin mittens" 🤭😂 you're the best!!! my new fave food channel ever!🤗
Lol. Thanks mate. Welcome.
Skin mittens was crazy 🤣
Been missing this from back home definitely had to subscribe. I’m making this asap
welcome duder.
A lot more fennel and a bit more chili flake is exactly what Italian blends lack you really spoke to me there
Grew up on those in Valpo. Sold them at a local gas station. So many memories...lol
Grew up in the region. Now I'm living in Indianapolis. There are a couple of spots here that have them, but if you don't get it fresh, prepare to have ur gut rearranged from that lil packet of grease 😁. Overall, one of my favorite all time snacks
That is one awesome, unique, Italian-American Chicago inspired pizza puff! I need to make this for as a young guy I ate pizza sausage rolls in NY all the time. Adam, you have mad chopping skills I hope one day to possess.
I dunno why MJF has a cooking show, but it's pretty good.
It aint going down easy unless it's cheesy!!!
Serious though, this looks really good!
Did u pick that towel off the floor that you were cooking with and wipe your mouth lol 😂
AWESOME MAN!!!!! I’m north of Chicago but we have some great places for pizza puffs, I never tried making them but now, NOW!!!!! I think imma gonna have to 😎👍🏻👍🏻
woooo
It looks like something I would brake my dirt for.
The first pizza puff was off the charts but the second one ... looked utterly vulgar and I would eat the hell out of it. And by the way, I'm so impressed with the foil-on-the-cooktop hack. Cleaning the cooktop makes me so peevish and this trick really mitigates the pain.
This video is the reason I am a subsribers!
It looks so delicious. It has been more than 30 years since I had a pizza puff. I need to make these.
My childhood fave 😊
one of mine too
that's a neat way to add fat to a dough, i usually struggle to get even bits
This looks amazing
In middle school they had what were referred to as “pizza snacks” in the lunch line. This recipe reminds me of those glorious pizza snacks! Gonna have to make these and relive my tween years!
Heckkkkk yeah.
I grew up on pizza puffs in the 80s! We went to Nikki's on Archer Ave (its still there going to take my husband in a couple weeks see if the pizza puffs are the same, THANK YOU for this video I have already duplicated Italian beef and the REAL Chicago pizza--tavern style! SO glad because the food here in Michigan is JUST AWFUL
On next to the pizza puff!
Amaze! Happy to help. Thanks for watching.
first pizza puff i had was in the 90s at tasty freeze when I lived in Midlothian as a kid
Didn't realize there was a brand other than Italco making the ultimate hot pocket
Come on down to the south side, oak lawn that is, Grassanos giant Pizza puff or as they call it now Panzerotti. It is giant and a step up from the puff. Been eating it since the 90's myself
Ok nevermind my pizza puff pizza 🤣
Italco foods are the OG pizza puff. I recommend dipping it in some nacho cheese sauce.
Looks like a hot pocket, but better. The tortillas seem easy to make, I want to try that but avoid frying anything!
I totally miss the pizza puff. 💕😊
I heard the dough should have corn meal.
ive never seen any one mess up the historic s symbol lol but great vid nonetheless lol
Delicious
Where you finding that full fat mozzarella?
check with your deli counter.
Man that does look good. And you're right about this being an american melting pot classic~! Food culture is where all of us come together, it has no language and no discrimination. I love that about food.
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Never eat anything bigger than your head.
RIP JOHNNY- O'S IN CHICAGO. IYKYK
This is where hot pockets got their idea from
You aren't from Chi-town UNLESS home has really changed! Still it looks okay. (Not the pizza puff I remember).
Stop calling it tortilla!
Lard is King 👑
Coat it on baking potatoes it's the best..
Since when did pizza puff have potato in it
The recipe link doesn't work.
GET AWAY FROM SUGAR
This is not a pizza puff
Love the content but that was definitely a palm of salt, not a pinch of salt.
"Dank" and "Puff" in the video title and KingCobraJFS is nowhere to be found? What gives?
Do I really need msg