Pizza Hut launches Detroit style Pizza today

Will it taste better than Little Caesars and Jets?

Is it made with water from Flint?

That picture looks gross. Since when does Detroit Style Pizza have the sauce all over the top? Only Chicago style pizza does that.

The foundation of the the thing seems less a crust than a waffle.

So it's basically just their cheesy bread with marinara spread over the top.

Yum. I’ll try this. I bought a steering wheel food tray so I can eat out but avoid people.

What the fuck is "Detroit Style Pizza"??

Chicago Style is deep-dish.

New York Style is floppy over-sized slices.

But what the fuck is Detroit Style? Never heard of it.

[quote]Never heard of it.

Hu uh.

R6 types fat.

[quote]Is it made with water from Flint?

That could finally give Pizza Hut some flavor again. Last time I tried it it tasted like greasy cardboard. The crust, sauce, toppings - nothing had flavor.

What is a steering wheel food tray, chubs @ R6? R7 has never watched Cooks Country or America's Test Kitchen. DL heart throb, Bryan Roof, made Detroit style pizza. Jet's makes great pizza!

R11, I was just going to post about Cook's Country. I watched an episode this past week and they made Detroit Style pizza.

In it's original version, it uses focaccia as the base. Then it's covered in cheese. Marinara sauce is drizzled on the top in a striped fashion. It seems dry to me as the amount of sauce can't be more than a 1 cups' worth.

[quote] In it's original version,

Oh dear!

That's a shitload lot of nitrates just in one slice. Enjoy your stomach and bowel cancer!

R11, it’s a food tray that connects to your steering wheel. It’s a little high for me. It’s level with my chin almost so it’s awkward eating. I can’t lower it because I don’t fit. People sometimes stare. I don’t care. I have a light blue one and I don’t have a cup holder. Below gives you an idea.

A most American device, R15.

I was a total skeptic on the Cook’s Country recipe - too bready, not enough sauce. And the ATK thin crust recipe is perfect. When I made the Detroit -style, though, fat whores rejoiced. It is easy to make, crispy, cheesy, and delicious.

Of course they're using frozen premade crust. Obviously, there's an audience for Pizza Hut, chain-y and unimpressive as the pizza might be, so it's not a bad addition to the menu.

[quote] It’s level with my chin almost

Exactly how tall are you? How do you see over the steering wheel if THAT is level with your chin?

J'adore Pizza Hut.

Apologies, R13!

Cosmo you and me is always good. (NY accent)

I just like bustin em on ya.

Like all Pizza Hut products, this one will be individually prepared and/or heated, low in sodium, full of farm-fresh ingredients, and not the slightest bit greasy. Can't wait!

Yo, R22! I was born in Brooklyn! I think the area is now called Crown Heights.

Does it come with bullets for toppings?

Cosmo, good thing you got out whenever you did. That area has been a shithole for at least 30 years now.

What makes it Detroit style pizza? Do they bake an unregistered snub nosed 38 in the dough?

I was a fan of the Pizza Hut "pan" crust. This Detroit style pizza looks like focaccia, which is a flat bread. Say what you like about PH, but their ovens are better than what most ppl have at home. Seems like a waste to be making focaccia "crust" in an industrial oven.

R27, on Cook's Country, they explained that the pan the pizza is cooked in was originally used in the auto industry to hold bolts, or screws, or something like that. It really is Chicago Deep Dish with less sauce, IMO. Both have more cheese than sauce as well as cheese being put on top of the crust instead of sauce then cheese a la NY pizza.

In Italy they would scoff at such silliness. And they would tell you this and the majority of pizzas made in the US are not real pizzas. There are actually very few pizzerias in the US that make authentic Italian style pizza.

For all the ignorants...

Detroit-style pizza is a rectangular pizza with a thick crust that is crispy and chewy. It is traditionally topped with Wisconsin brick cheese, then tomato sauce layered on top of the other toppings (rather than directly onto the dough). This style of pizza is often baked in rectangular steel trays designed for use as automotive drip pans or to hold small industrial parts in factories. The style was developed during the mid-twentieth century in Detroit before spreading to other parts of the United States in the 2010s. The dish is one of Detroit's iconic local foods.

The sauce is unique as it uses granulated garlic (rather than fresh) as a primary seasoning.

"IT' SQUARE PIZZA PHYLLIS, OKAY!"

Square is all the rage now. I'm embarrassed to admit we tried this frozen version and its delicious. Crust is foccacia adjacent.

We have Buddy’s here which is a Detroit style pizza chain. Some people rave about them but I prefer a thinner standard crust style pizza.

Detroit style pizza is essentially bread

Basically it's similar to Jet's square pizza (like OP said)

I was born and raised in Detroit and they never had pizza with cheese first then sauce drizzled. This is some bullshit. A marketing invention. We had the sauce then the meat and other shit and then the cheese. LOTS of cheese.

I am not too proud to eat some crap fast food but I agree the sauce drizzled on top ruins it for me.

It will take you an hour to order online; you will get extremely skimpy ingredients and rude, incompetent service (don't count on delivery). But they think adding a new gimmick pizza is going to help them bounce back from failure. There are only 2 or 3 locations left out of a dozen in my small state just a few years ago.

This is why we can't have nice pizza.

Chicago style pizza seems like it would be the obvious choice. Where can you get Chicago style pizza in nyc?

Detroit is a gourmet's paradise if you like garbage. Not judging, Bears and Racoon love garbage.

Reading that description, I don't think "Detroit Style" pizza is unique enough to warrant distinction.

it doesn't look good to me. i used to like pizza hut back in the 90's.

On the rare occasion I have got Pizza Hut I like the thin crust. They changed the formula for the regular crust, now it's too sweet. And the pan pizza is not as delicious as it used to be and sometimes tastes undercooked which makes me leery of a thicker crust pizza like this.

What R7 said. I have never heard of Detroit-style pizza.

I hate thick dense bready pizza. I grew up with it and usually leave it on the plate. As an American, I thought that's how it had to be until I went to Italy and my whole world changed. The pizza crust in Italy is like light airy artisan bread with big air holes in the crumb and delicate crispy crust. It take 2 days from start to finish to make the dough. It's way better than NY pizza in my opinion. But it's not thick and gloppy with 2lbs of toppings so if that's your idea of pizza, you probably wont like it.

R47 is right. The only thick dough pizza I've ever had in Italy were camogli, which are panini style toasted sandwiches.

Pizza in Italy is as R47 describes.

Just great. A thicker pile of nasty tasting shit.

I've been on a quest to find decent Chicago-style pizza in NYC and have not had great success. i was desperate and tried Uno's recently and it tasted like a chain. I'm from the midwest and cannot abide the crust on NY style pizza. It's an abomination to dough. There are a couple places in Manhattan that supposedly have Chicago (thin crust as well as deep dish) but I'm out of borough so it would have to be a special trip and I've never tried. One is called Emmet's and the other Big Al's.

Review Brah gives the Pizza Hut Detroit style pizza a 9 out of 10.

Review Brah said there's a lot of pepperoni on the pizza & I'm surprised.

I can't believe people are acting like we should know what "Detroit pizza" is because it was featured on a tv show.

Does Detroit style mean it has barbecue potato chips and orange soda in it?

This is my first time seeing Review Brah .....is he like the Niles Crane of reviewers?

If Review Brah approves then I may have to try it!

[quote]In Italy they would scoff at such silliness. And they would tell you this and the majority of pizzas made in the US are not real pizzas. There are actually very few pizzerias in the US that make authentic Italian style pizza.

You don't order Pizza Hut for authentic whatever-the-fuck pizza. You order Pizza Hut when you're craving greazzzzy pizza.

[quote] What the fuck is "Detroit Style Pizza"??

You get shot in the head while eating it.

I grew up in Detroit, and yes this is a thing. I'm surprised former Detroiters never heard of Buddy's? Jet's, Dolly's, Shields' are other chains that do this style. This and Coney Islands are about the only foods Detroit is known for. R31 is spot-on in the description. A lot of places also twice-bake the crust, Focaccia-adjacent is a good description. Sauce on top is common.

I had pizza from a mid-Atlantic pizza chain last week claiming it was "Detroit style". The only thing Detroit style about it was its square shape. The crust was all wrong, as was the cheese. I'm skeptical that Pizza Hut will "get it" either.