Pizza Cook-Off Association

A little over 4 weeks until our first event of 2024!!
Sign up now on the PCA website https://www.pizzacook-off.com/cookoff-calendar-public/february-9-2024

Don't have an outdoor pizza oven? No problem....check out our newest sponsor Steel !! So many wonderful products...click below to go to their website!

Baking Steel | Pizza Stone Made from Ultra-Conductive Steel The Original Baking Steel® - A pizza stone, made of ultra-conductive Steel.

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Happy New Year Everyone!!

We are super excited to begin the 2024 year by announcing the newest PCA Sponsor, the Baking Steel!! Having studied Culinary Arts, owner & founder, Andris Lagsdin is very passionate about food – pizza in particular!

To quote from his story and inspiration on his website:

As fate would have it, one day, I was reading pieces of Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold. In his book, Nathan stated that the best tool to use for making the perfect crust would be a piece of steel. And that, my friends, was my “AHA” moment! You see, I grew up with and worked for a family-owned, steel manufacturing business, Stoughton Steel.

As soon as I could, I hustled out to our plant, found a piece of quarter-inch, high-quality steel and brought it home for some testing. According to Modernist Cuisine, steel is a more conductive cooking surface than a brick oven’s stone. Because of that conductivity, it cooks faster and more evenly at a lower temperature, resulting in a beautiful, thin, crispy crust. Real-life tests with my steel confirmed that theory completely for me!

I had spent plenty of time over the years with countless pans, pizza stones, gadgets and gear trying to perfect my pizzas in a home oven. But I was always disappointed. Who knew the solution had been waiting for me all along in a pile of steel over at the shop. Talk about serendipity!

I’m lucky to be living out this dream of combining two great interests of my life into one amazing product! Now, like pizza lovers everywhere, you can “create the crust you crave.”

The Baking Steel will be added to the PCA website very soon, but until then....check out their website at https://bakingsteel.com/. There you will find a variety of sizes of the Baking Steel, as well as many other great products, recipes, and free on-line cooking classes!! For those pizza lovers....definitely worth checking out!!

We are really looking forward to taking the PCA to the next level in 2024!

All the Best & Happy New Year!!
Jerry

Happy New Year, 2024!!! 🍕🍕🍕
We would like to wish all of our PCA Members, Judges, Cook Teams, and PCA family a very Happy, Safe and Prosperous New Year!!
We also want to thank all of our wonderful Sponsors!
ALFA Ovens - USA
Urban Slicer
Carolina Cookwood
Mike's Hot Honey
Portion Padl
Fire Within
Gozney

Be safe!

Jerry & Ewa

Best wishes for a joyous Christmas filled with love, happiness and prosperity!
And may all that is beautiful and meaningful bring you joy this holiday season!

Merry Christmas!!
Jerry & Ewa

Hello Everyone!
I am excited to announce our next event for 2024… “The Fire Ant Festival”, which will be held on Friday, March 22nd in Ashburn, GA!!

This will be the 2nd annual event with the good folks at the Fire Ant Festival. Robby Royal will be the promoter on this event, and the cook team registrations will be done on the Fire Ant Festival website after the first of the year ..... so mark your calendars!

I hope everyone is gearing up for our first event in 2024 in Cordele GA, which will take place on Friday, February 9th.

I have attached the flyers to both of these events. Anyone interested in competing, please go to the PCA website and check out the rules tab: https://www.pizzacook-off.com/rules

Also, I will be conducting a Cook’s Class here at my home in McDonough on Saturday, January 27th. The class will be limited ….so please email me if you’re interested. Here is what you will learn:

Prepping pizza dough from scratch – including recipe
Preparing Pizza Sauce – including recipe
Stretching dough
Transferring pizza into the oven
Making your own pizzas
Several tips, dos and don’ts regarding competitions

Wishing everyone a safe & Happy Holiday Season!!
Jerry

Less than 2 months away.....sign up on the PCA website to compete!!

Hello Everyone!

I am excited to announce the addition of a new PCA sponsor…. Mike’s Hot Honey!! Mike's Hot Honey is America’s leading brand of hot honey. Founded in 2010 by Mike Kurtz, the brand was born from a desire to create and share the highest quality honey infused with chili peppers. Mike began drizzling his signature hot honey on pizzas at the Brooklyn pizzeria where he worked, and customers started to ask if they could buy bottles to take home.

Mike’s Hot Honey became a word-of-mouth sensation, sparking the creation of a new category of honey. Headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, Mike’s Hot Honey can now be found on restaurant menus and retail shelves across the US.

Here is a link to their website, and it also can be found on the PCA website’s homepage in the Sponsor’s section. https://mikeshothoney.com/

Happy Holidays!!
Jerry & Eva

Hope to see everyone at our next event in Cordele, GA on February 9th!

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Happy Thanksgiving!!!🍕🍕🍕

Hello Everyone,

We had an outstanding Judge’s Class yesterday! Although the weather tried to put a damper on things, everyone was interactive and fully engaged and a good time was had by all!

Congratulations to our newest certified PCA Judge’s!!

Mark Waters
Mary Smith
Danny Smith
Deborah Sleeth
Guy Sleeth
Ed Reilly

For those that want to learn all my secrets to making a good pizza, I am going to post some Cook’s Classes soon! I will teach you how to make a simple, but delicious dough recipe, and pizza sauce recipe as well. I will also teach you how to form the dough balls, stretch the pizzas, and most importantly, transfer them to the pizza oven! So if this interests you, please get in touch and we’ll set up a time and date that works for you!

As always, many thanks to my sponsors!





Have a great upcoming week!

Have you tried our new Spicy Cupping Pepperoni?

Happy Halloween Everyone!
Today is also the last day of National Pizza Month but don't stress cause Every Day is PIZZA Day!

# CarolinaCookwood

I am looking for 1 more person interested in becoming a Pizza Cook-off Judge. The class is Saturday, November 11th, from 11am to 3pm. Cost is $50. Feel free to contact me for more info. Here are a few pics from previous classes.

National Pizza Month 🍕🍕🍕
Oct 1, 2023 – Oct 31, 2023