Square or rectangular pans still make delicious pizzas, but it’s not the way it’s traditionally done. The type of pan you choose will impact your final pizza result.įirst of all, for it being a ‘true’ Chicago deep dish, the pan will need to be round. This will keep in all your fillings and hold up the crust. Instead, you have to bake it in a tin, a bit like a round cake tin. As opposed to an Italian pizza, you don’t bake this pizza on a flat surface. It all starts with the tray that you bake it in. Choosing a pan for Chicago style deep dish pizza All of this is fascinating and there’s even a bunch of science involved to make this pizza. Another typical Chicago thing is the use of sausage meat on the pizza. Others would vehemently protest that, of course.įact is, deep dish pizzas need this crust on the sides to keep everything together and it is just one of the things that makes it unique. The Chicago style deep dish though, is not flat, and does have sauce, but a lot more of it and a lot of stringy cheese within! Some might say it is a quiche, not a pizza, it having crust on both the bottom and sides. Most of us will think of pizza being flat, with a bread like bottom, a layer of (often tomato) sauce, with a whole range of possible other toppings (vegetables, meats), often including cheese. It’s a pretty regional phenomenon and personally I haven’t seen it outside of the city, whereas in Chicago every tourist seems to ‘need’ to eat it!Ĭhicago deep dish is very different from ‘traditional’ Italian pizza. If you’ve never been to Chicago, chances are small you have come across Chicago-style deep dish pizza.
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