The height of pizza nerdery...

I really considered myself somewhat of a pizza nerd... I love trying new things and have spent a number of years working on my dough and collecting some tips.

However, this six-year-long effort to reverse engineer Patsy's pies by Jeff Varasano leaves me speechless. Jeff, by the way, held the US record for solving Rubik's cubes at the age of 14... I'm glad his talents have been focused on delivering the best of the best in pizza pies to the masses.

Wow. I need to take a pizza sabbatical someday and do this to the T... Jeff uses a DLX mixer, his own sourdough starter as well as a slightly complicated dough recipe... the kicker is that he has modded his electrical oven to cook on the CLEAN setting. Yes, boys and girls, he has snapped the safety lock off of his oven with gardening shears so that he can get temperatures upwards of 800° F in a conventional oven which cooks his pies in 2-3 minutes.

Did I say, wow?