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This is the best rated pizza in the entire world,

and we're gonna be comparing it to the world's most expensive pizza that has more gold than my chain,

the top rated pizza in New York City that uses a 100 -year -old oven and everything in between, and as crazy as it might sound,

we're gonna start at Costco.

I've never actually had their pizza, but based on countless articles I've found online, this is the internet's favorite budget slice.

Do I think Costco pizza's gonna beat the slices we're gonna have in New York or Italy later in this video?

Probably not, but we won't know until we try.

Members only?

Shouldn't be a problem.

Not the best photo, though.

Fun fact, they sell so much pizza here at Costco that technically they're one of the largest pizza chains in the country.

I need to find out why people love it so much.

So you think it could be the best in the world?

Costco is the best.

We watched this pizza be made back there by this robot machine that spreads the sauce perfectly.

The robot is so smart that as it gets closer to the center,

there's less sauce so that your pizza can hold up and doesn't flop over.

They've just got everything down to a T where it's all the same consistent perfect pizza.

Thank you.

Hey, you want an extra drink?

Oh, an extra drink?

There you go.

Oh wow, that's amazing.

Thank you.

I will say this pizza looks fantastic

and our guy Greg seems to think it could be up there with the best pizza in the world.

The smell of this pizza alone is unbelievable.

This is the pizza that brings me back to my childhood.

I feel like it's the very best version of a pizza that you get at a birthday party.

I love it.

The only negatives for me is that there's no crunch in this crust

and the bottom doesn't have that classic pizza char I'm looking for.

This pizza right here exceeded my expectations, but the real question is, can it hold up against the best pizzas in the world?

This is Al Forno.

It's in Providence, Rhode Island, just a few minutes away from the hospital where I was born.

And this is where grilled pizza was invented.

Grilled pizza has a more complex flavor than any slice you've probably ever tasted.

And it's so good that at one point, it won Al Forno the award for best casual restaurant in the world.

How are you?

Good to see you.

The last time I was in this kitchen was when I was 17.

Yeah.

I'm 27.

So fun fact, This was my first ever job.

David was the chef.

Was I helpful?

Give me an honest rating.

Oh, yes, you were.

I remember.

I swept the floor a lot.

You were helpful, yes.

Do you think this deserves to be up there with, like, the best pieces in the world?

Because I actually do.

I do.

Oh, absolutely.

Because of all the care and time that we take in making them.

It seems easy, but it's not that easy, I promise you.

The whole process takes, like, I don't know, three minutes.

And David, Nick will be able to make one, too?

Absolutely.

Was he allowed to make one back in the day?

No, he was not.

Any reason why?

It needs some training.

That right there is what makes a grilled pizza a grilled pizza, those clean, fresh marks that go across it.

So what's the secret?

I mean, what makes this pizza so good?

Fresh ingredients, very simple, cooking it on a live fire like that, right straight on.

David, I don't know if you remember this, but one time I went to use the bathroom

when I was working here and I turned off the lights in the whole restaurant.

Oh, I do remember that.

Yeah, everybody does that when they come.

That was pretty bad.

Do they scream at you?

Yeah, yeah, I think I got yelled at.

What the are you doing?

I love all the little spots that you do when you put them on there.

So unique in the sense that, like you said, every pizza looks different.

It kind of breaks the rules of pizza.

Like, you know, the sauce is not first.

The cheese is first.

The cooking method is different.

Everything is different about it.

We got to rotate it constantly because some spots are hotter than others.

Finish it with scallions.

And you don't really see scallions on a pizza anywhere else.

No. And the pizza's ready.

Another beautiful pizza.

Here we go.

So this is the first time I've been ever allowed to touch pizza in this kitchen.

And this dough is so easy to work with.

It's so nice right now.

It's incredible.

Get these corners over here, you see.

Yep.

And then when you go in there, you're going to kind of open your hands a little bit.

Okay.

Stretch it out even a little bit more.

Here we go.

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And I'm going to drop.

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Perfect.

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I'm going to be honest.

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Mine looks pretty s*.

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No, it looks beautiful.

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I just, I'm not happy with how I dropped it on there, David.

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Oh, you're not?

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That's okay.

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Like I said, every single pizza looks different.

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Can I try it one more time?

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Absolutely.

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That looks good.

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All right.

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That looks cool.

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It's perfect.

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Better this time.

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Absolutely.

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It looks beautiful.

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Beautiful.

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Bravo.

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That's a little better.

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No, that looks great.

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That's better.

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Now I'll pull it back and I'll flip it.

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First a little bit of olive oil.

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Here we go.

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Yeah, like painting it.

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Exactly.

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And then we do the cheese.

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Yeah, that looks good.

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And just dump it in the middle.

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And then spray it out.

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Spread it out.

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Now we're going to do the tomato sauce.

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The idea is that every single bite has a little bit of tomato and cheese.

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Now we do herbs.

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Perfect.

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Just a little olive oil.

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Yep.

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And then we're going to push it back.

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Looks gorgeous.

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You did good.

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pizzas would you come you should have let me touch the pizza

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when i asked it's too late

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now that's it all right check the bottom make sure it's not burning looks good

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and then finish with the scallions garnish the pizza with scallions i don't know

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if mine's just good or jerk

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but i feel good about it i feel good about it show everyone how you eat the pizza here

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or can i use pork and knife yeah you caught it look at

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that you're gonna cut me a slice oh what i've always loved most about this is

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that it looks so thin but it's got a really nice chew to it it's chewy crispy

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It's got like a little bit of that acidic bite to it from one of the cheeses.

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All right, well.

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If you ever need help making the pizzas, you know where to find me.

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This right here is Frank Pepe's.

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This is Dave Portnoy's favorite place to get a slice.

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Dave has reviewed thousands of pizzas through his Barstool Pizza Reviews.

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And this restaurant here is based in New Haven, Connecticut, which many say is the pizza hub of America.

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If you look up best pizza in America, this place is top three on every list.

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What's going on, guys?

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Hey, what's happening?

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How you doing?

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I figured you guys would be happy I'm seeing some Connecticut -style pizza before

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New York City, which...

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Absolutely.

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We love to showcase off our coal -fired oven.

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Frank Pepe is the birthplace of coal -fired pizza in New Haven, Connecticut.

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So right here is a custom 100 ,000 -pound coal -fired brick oven.

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This is the powerhouse of the pizza that they make here.

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So this right here is 2 ,000 degrees inside.

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A new fire starts every day.

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Burns your eyes.

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It's amazing, isn't it?

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Every 30 minutes to an hour, we'll flip the fire just to get the old ash down, add some new coals.

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Remember, just like any fire, you need oxygen to breathe.

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So if you flip this fan on, that pushes air through here and gives really nice airflow into their oven,

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which is what cooks the perfect pie.

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Should we make a pizza?

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We have a bread flour, not a pizza flour.

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So it's a little looser.

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So you want to get under it with a little flour.

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And then you just want to grab it on the edge.

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You're not throwing it up in the air.

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You're not making a circle and throwing it.

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Yeah.

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It'll make a hole in it.

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No throwing dough in here.

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Nope.

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How many pizzas do we make a day here?

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On a busy day, you can do over a thousand.

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Wow.

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People love pizza.

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So, level scoop, put it in the middle.

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You're gonna write like a pencil.

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Oh, that's good.

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You can write my name into it, it's all just circled into it.

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Sliced mozzarella cheese?

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Yep.

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This actually is a big key for us.

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Okay.

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It melts different.

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Then we have our pecorino romano, our olive oil, and then this is the hardest part.

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Okay.

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Just throwing it.

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The key is just throw it.

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You don't want to get scared.

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You get to your point, shake, pull.

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Finesse.

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I like it.

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Okay.

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This is nice, light, airy dough.

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Look at that.

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We make our dough fresh every day.

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And it kind of spreads itself, like you said.

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A little bit of farina on here.

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Toss it right on.

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Honestly, I'll say I could have made it a little more circular.

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It's okay.

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It all tastes good.

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One scoop right in the center.

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Once I put it in the center, I like your kind of like drawing with a pencil.

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Food is always art, isn't it?

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It is.

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It's nice to have that cheese a little bit dry before you make that pizza, though.

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That way you are not going to have this wet, leaking pizza.

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A little bit of pecorino.

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Just a little bit of olive oil to finish it off.

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And then we're good.

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All right, this is the toughest part.

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I don't want to hit anyone with this thing.

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So everybody duck, all right?

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All right, I'm gonna go all the way in.

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All right, about 10 minutes later, my pizza should be done.

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It definitely looks good.

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Let's see.

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Beautiful.

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Wow, that is a good -looking pizza.

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We did the hardest part.

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We actually made the pizza.

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So now the only question is, how does it taste?

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Right off the bat, I have to say, this is a damn good -looking pizza.

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I can tell that crust is nice and crispy, and it's definitely nice and hot.

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If I'm being honest, I just don't see how you can get a better pizza than this

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but new york and connecticut have always been in a fight on who has the better pie

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so let's go see can connecticut's best be new york's best we made it to new york city

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and after searching through over 2 000 pizza restaurants

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i've decided to visit this one

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it's literally called best pizza best pizza serves some classic new

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york style slices everything is baked in a custom oven

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that's bigger than a lot of new york city apartments

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this is an 100 year old oven yeah it's like 130 years old

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and how big is this oven so i'll show I'll show you right now,

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people always flip out when I bring them to this part because this is literally the whole oven.

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The oven goes all the way back?

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Yeah, the size of a one -car garage.

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It's very similar.

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Like if you go to Frank Pepe's in New Haven.

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Yeah.

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And if you go to like a lot of those pizzerias that have been around for 100 years,

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Frank Pepe has the same exact oven as us.

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We just went to Frank Pepe's.

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Sounds like all the best pizzas come out of the same oven.

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Big shout out to Frank Pepe's.

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You call this place best pizza for a reason, right?

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Yeah, I mean, you know, that's what some say.

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We'll let you be the judge.

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Let's make some pies.

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Yo, I'm coming in the kitchen real quick, guys, right behind you.

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This is crazy.

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So the main goal is to kind of not touch your crust when you're making it.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah, the crust kind of makes itself.

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When I'm making the pizza, a lot of pizzerias, you see pizza guys smacking the shit out of the pizza, you know?

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I want to keep the air inside because that's what keeps the slice nice and light.

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So you're pretty delicate with it when you first...

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It's delicate, that's the exact word I teach all my pizza guys.

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Get it up into your hands.

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And then this is when it starts spreading out.

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I haven't seen a technique like this before.

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Yeah, you just kind of flip it.

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Gravity is your friend with pizza making.

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You know, you see people throw it in the air.

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Yeah, and it is a trick and people love watching it, but actually helps the pizza spread out

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We've seen a lot of pizzas in this video.

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This is the biggest biggest pizza biggest one so far.

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Yeah Yeah, I mean, you know when you're if you're if you're talking about how big the actual, you know Yeah pizza dough is

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but to get it to this size without having any little holes or thin parts in it

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It takes time you got to make a lot of pieces and that's what I tell young pizza makers

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First thing is the tomatoes when the pizza cooks the crust Puffs up and it pushes all the ingredients in the middle

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So what you want to do is kind of get everything to the outside rim.

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This is our oregano.

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We use the oregano on the skin

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This is what makes a New York pizza in my opinion Oregano?

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The dried oregano.

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You go to Italy, you go around and eat a New York slice.

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If you keep that in your mind

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You'll be like, oh shit, I taste the oregano.

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This reminds me of New York.

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It's a powerful herb, especially when it's dried.

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Yep So we don't go too heavy.

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Pretty light on the cheese from what it looks like too.

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Big time.

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I'm not I'm not big in like just having a big cheesy slice.

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And you're also putting more of that cheese on the outside, just like you talked about, to make sure it's not being weighed down, yeah?

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Exactly.

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Since it's fresh mozzarella, it spreads a lot, so you don't need to use as much as normal pizzeria is.

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And then we're gonna go right in.

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Coming right behind.

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Going in.

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There it goes.

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You got the launch down to a science, huh?

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Yeah, it's a lot of years, you know?

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The oven's so hot, as soon as the pizza gets in there, it pops right up.

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You can see all those bubbles.

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Oh, man.

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Yeah, it looks nice.

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This is a technique.

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Sometimes we'll take it and dome it and at the top of that fire, just kiss the top of the pie.

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Doming it.

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Yeah, because the top is a dome.

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That's where you get those little black spots on top.

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Yup, and that's where all the heat is.

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So the higher you go, the hotter the temperature.

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For me, I don't want the pie to look perfect.

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I want it to look rustic, you know?

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We try to mix the old with the new, and I think that's what makes our spot special.

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Come on, boys, eat up.

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Grab a slice.

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This is what it's about, right?

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Passing the food around and eating.

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Oh, that's it that's what we're looking for in new york cheers cheers cheers

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that's the sound of pizza that's it baby i would just call

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it the perfect well -rounded slice you're not doing anything fancy

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but you're doing everything right thank you man

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that is the best pizza huh

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i'm busy williamsburg brooklyn come see this handsome guy our next

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stop is industry kitchen home to the world's most expensive pizza

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and i figure if you've got the world's most expensive ingredients it's got to be pretty damn good.

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Are you ready to see how we make our 24k pizza?

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As ready as I'll ever be.

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Should we do it?

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Yeah absolutely come over.

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All right let's go.

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A lot of stuff happening back here.

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This is Luis.

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Luis is going to start the dough.

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It's a black dough.

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It's made with coddlefish ink so that makes it super super black.

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There's a little earthy tones to it and the flavor profile.

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I feel like you might be the only place in the world with a black dough pizza.

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First we start with a roasted garlic cream.

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That's our base instead of a tomato base.

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Definitely not a traditional pizza.

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It's not.

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The second layer is mozzarella cheese.

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So this is a Stilton cheese from England.

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The best of us we can get is a blue cheese.

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How often are you making one of these?

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About 15 to 20 a year.

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This oven is like a gas oven but also we have apple wood.

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So you've got gas and wood in the oven.

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The gas is for the temperature to make the bottom very crispy.

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Then that is for the smoke and flavor of the pizza.

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Fagra, this one is the liver of a goose.

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It's coming from the Hudson Valley.

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It's so decadent.

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It's almost like a fancy butter.

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It's a fancy animal butter, yeah.

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So the pizza's finished its first bake.

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Yes.

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How many slices do we have here?

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Eight slices.

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$250 per slice.

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Oh, .

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Time for the gold.

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So each slice gets a nice big square, huh?

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Absolutely, yeah.

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We are not shy with our gold.

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This is actually 24 karat gold.

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Absolutely, yeah.

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So instead of putting this on a wedding ring

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or on a chain

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or in a watch this is on a pizza it is on a pizza all right

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so we have the gold now we are going with our other ingredients

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so that foie gras just baked in that oven for a little bit

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and now you're placing

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that onto the pizza as well now we have the caviar the beautiful et cetera caviar from iran

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and again you're putting one nice big spoonful on every single slice

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that's correct we're trying to achieve the full favorable umami oh my god this pizza then we have some beautiful edible flowers.

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And this part I love because the colors start to really pop.

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Well we have the benefit of the black dough as a nice canvas of art right?

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And we have some more textures of gold.

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So there wasn't enough gold on there?

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No, no there was not enough gold.

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And we're going to mother the pizza with truffle.

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Oh my god.

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Nick this is your 24k golden pizza.

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One more little surprise here.

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I actually brought one of my best friends from high school who has no idea what he's about to eat.

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He's also kind of a picky eater.

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You ready to eat some pizza?

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I'm ready.

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Let's do it.

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Let's go.

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Wow.

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Thank you so much.

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What do you think?

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Crazy.

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I don't think there's enough gold.

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Believe it or not, this is the most expensive pizza you can buy.

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In New York?

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Anywhere.

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Really?

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Guess how much each slice costs.

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100 bucks?

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250. Have you eaten gold before?

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No. All right, let's go.

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Wow.

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That's insane.

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I taste a lot of the Stilton blue cheese.

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It's like a super powerful, powerful cheese.

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I got a big fat bite of foie gras when I bit in so it's all buttery.

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Did you like the foie gras?

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I loved it.

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Which was foie gras like super expensive.

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Yeah, I love the fact that there's a bunch of different cheeses

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and I love the look of the dough even though it tastes just like regular old pizza dough.

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All around give it a pizza rating.

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You like pizza?

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Pizza rating out of 10.

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I mean in terms of how unique it is, 10 out of 10.

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Kind of unbeatable.

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I think the best slice I've ever had to be honest. Is it?

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It's not every day you have some gold pizza with caviar hats on.

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This is your top pizza that you've ever had?

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I think so.

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Wow.

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I'm gonna tell everyone I had some gold pizza today.

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All right, let's see the damage.

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You got this one?

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Yeah, I'll take it.

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This is the first bill you've ever picked up for us.

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Have a good day.

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For our final pizza, I flew to Italy in search of the number one rated pizzeria in the entire world.

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And I decided to have a little bit of fun along the way.

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Did you really think I wasn't going to pull up to the best pizza restaurant in the world in style?

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There are over 250 ,000 pizza restaurants in the entire world, and behind me is number one.

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This is E Massagneli, a pizzeria just outside of Naples, Italy,

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that was just ranked number one in the world by a panel of 900 judges on the most prestigious pizza rankings list.

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How are you?

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Nice to meet you.

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Head chef Francesco Martucci has invited us into his kitchen to learn how he makes the best pizza in the entire world.

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So my brother here, Pete, speaks great Italian, so he's going to be helping us translate today.

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Let's do the bread first.

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Okay, are you ready?

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Ready.

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So I'm curious, how did you get so good at making pizza?

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That's when he really gets to develop that gluten.

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and a little after the cooking.

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I put it first because the temperature of the oil is much higher than the other ingredients.

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It helps cook the pomodoro.

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The addition of that oil completely transforms the pizza.

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I like the oven with little flame.

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The flame would only cook the external parts and not the heart of the pizza. And voila.

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That was it?

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Yeah.

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That was that fast?

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That pizza just cooked faster than we could film it.

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And it's done.

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That was it.

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It's fast because there's only one pizza in the oven.

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He's using the scissors to cut the pizza.

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This is a very classic Italian style.

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Why do they cut with scissors?

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That is the lightest crust I've ever felt in my life.

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Munch!

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Cheers!

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It tastes like Italy.

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The crust is so soft and light.

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They got the perfect crisp and char on the outside.

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Like the crust.

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The crust.

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The margarita must be fondent like chocolate.

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It must be the whole thing that is fond.

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That's the first time I've heard pizza compared to a chocolate.

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That's a good pizza.

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So who gets the last slice?

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You want to fight for it?

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No, no, no. Luckily, we didn't have to fight, as the chef made us one more pie.

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His specialty, deep -fried pizza, Futuro di Marinara.

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Oh my god.

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That is a crazy crisp.

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Mmm.

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You hear that?

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My question's back on water.

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That is insane.

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This is the best pizza crust that I think I've ever had.

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Thank you.

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But we have to do it in America then.

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Oh my God.

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You know, it's funny guys, I just realized this.

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I was taking a shower and it's 6 .42 pm on Thursday evening.

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It's been like a week since I filmed this video.

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And I just remembered I didn't even pick my favorite slice of pizza.

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And that was like half the reason I filmed the whole video.

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So, sorry about that.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “I Ate The World's Best Pizza”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: pizza, Nick, Frank, slice, David. This video has 409 sentences and 4372 words to shadow. The speech runs for 18:21. The speaker talks fast, about 238 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 66 of its 409 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
pizza noun	/ˈpi.tsə/	A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
slice noun	/slaɪs/	That which is thin and broad.
oven noun	/ˈʌ.vn̩/	A chamber used for baking or heating.
dough noun	/doʊ/	A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
crust noun	/kɹʌst/	A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
rat noun	/ɹæt/	Any of the numerous members of several rodent families that usually have short limbs, a pointy snout, a long, hairless tail, and a body length greater than…
olive noun	/ˈɑ.lɪv/	A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
tomato noun	/təˈmeɪ.toʊ/	A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
ingredient noun	/ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/	One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.
chef noun	/ʃɛf/	The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.
flip verb	/flɪp/	To throw so as to turn over.
flavor noun	/ˈfleɪvə/	The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
grill noun	/ɡɹɪl/	A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and…
fancy noun	/ˈfæn.si/	The imagination.
bite verb	/baɪt/	To cut into something by clamping the teeth.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
spread out verb		Become further apart.
come apart verb		To break, separate.
come over verb		To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse.
come together verb	/ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/	To assemble; to congregate; to combine.
do over verb	/ˈduˌoʊvɚ/	To cover with; to smear or spread on to.
eat up verb		To consume completely.
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.
get over verb		To overcome.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I mean, what makes this pizza so good?
How will you eat the pizza?
Should we make a pizza?
How many slices do we have here?
You ready to eat some pizza?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've never actually had · you've probably ever tasted · I've been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be made · was born · was invented
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the best · the largest · the hardest
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea	Shouldn't be · should have · Should we make

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 105 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thin /ˈθɪn/, breathe /bɹiːð/, birthplace /ˈbɝθˌpleɪs/, earthy /ˈɝθi/, smother /ˈsməðər/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: chef /ʃɛf/, wash /wɑʃ/, garage /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/, casual /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/, shout /ʃaʊt/
Long words — get the stress right: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, diversity /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pizza, slice, oven.

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Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

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Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

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