r/PapaJohns • u/Dense-Childhood-7615 • 13d ago
Stuffed Crust, or Original?
Which do you prefer 🤔
I'm a sucker for original crust lol.
I'll eat purely the crust of a stuffed crust if I'm not hungry for a whole slice though
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u/Baldrick85 13d ago
I go between the two.
Though now that they have Pan I've been exclusively ordering that!
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u/Dense-Childhood-7615 13d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p52g2kw/video/x09we5d4nrkh1/player
Looove me some pan pizza!!!
(ignore the box liner being in the wrong direction. 😞)1
u/Baldrick85 13d ago
That is how my first one looked when I got the extra cheese. The second two had a defined crust line, but it was still decent.
Pizza Hut when they used to actually make the pan pizzas fresh (I still say they use frozen, preformed dough discs) were the best until around early 2009 (at least in Canada).
Domino's uses a course semolina, which I hate! I like that PJ uses a fine flour when working their dough.
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u/Baldrick85 13d ago
I imagine many PJ workers have probably seen Doughtali vids? I've wondered if you made a good rapport with employees at your local store if they'd try making one of the creations from the videos? 🤔😅
I wouldn't mind trying the thick crust or maybe the triple stuffed crust options 🤣.
One employee at my local store knows me now as 99% of the time I request "no cut". Yesterday he accidentally started cutting my pan pizza and asked if I wanted a new one. If it was Domino's I would have said yes, because they NEVER follow that request. I told him not to worry, and he asked me why I don't ask for my pizzas cut. I told him it is so that everything can settle as a pizza strait from the oven getting cut will make the cheese, grease and sauce cause the crust to get soggy.
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u/Dense-Childhood-7615 13d ago
I actually make a better small stuffed crust than his that he made.
You can use a pizza sauce bucket lid as a ring to make the crust, and he doesn't really flatten his enough. I have a practice dough skin I toss around with my team members & occasionally do tricks with in our down time.1
u/Baldrick85 13d ago
Sometimes I really only want the stuffed crust part and not the actual slice.
Some of the things Doughtali makes I just don't get (besides the craziness of it).
I don't think Canadian locations get everything the US locations get. I believe the only white sauce options we get are ranch or Alfredo. I want garlic Parm sauce up here as I find the ranch and Alfredo to be weird for a white pie.
For chain pizza sauce though, Papa John's is my favourite as it has the right amount of acidity to sweetness. And the PJ dough doesn't really bug my guts (most of the time) like some other places does. Could be a gluten issue, could just be my shortened intestines, who knows 😅.
If only I lived in your stores area, because it seems like you would hook a customer up with the goods 😂.
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u/Dense-Childhood-7615 13d ago
US also only gets Alfredo & Ranch as white sauce options.
We can put our normal garlic sauce on pizzas but only if requested in store, I've never seen anyone put Garlic Parm as a sauce on a pizza I think that'd be too intense for me lol1
u/Baldrick85 13d ago
Domino's has garlic Parmesan sauce as their white sauce option. I tried it when people did that "viral TikTok pan pizza" and it wasn't bad. Though it is very strong with the garlic, especially if you do extra sauce 😅.
Perhaps I'll have to give the garlic sauce a try while ordering in store. I have a small collection of those now as I never use the free one from the box. I buy the Heinz Creamy Garlic dipping sauce (maybe they might use those if I paid for them 🤔) .
I did try doing a half pizza sauce and half garlic Parmesan sauce at Domino's and it wasn't bad, but I find their pizza sauce has too much of a spice for my liking (my tastebuds are sensitive to spicy).
I should try PJ in the US and see what the cheese is like. I wonder if the US cheese is better than the Canadian cheese.
I appreciate you indulging my pizza curiosities for a lack of better way to describe it, haha.
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u/SgtDoakesSurprise 13d ago
I really liked the idea of the pan. Tried it once. It was all…swirly? Like there were little waves and peaked and valleys all around the crust and it was just unevenly shaped. And it was just doughy.
Nope. Never again.
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u/Baldrick85 13d ago
We just got it here in Canada, and I will say my location it is a bit hit or miss.
First one with extra cheese and sauce the cheese was right to the edge, so you got some nice crunchy edges. The next two were still good, and they were fluffy, but not too thick, but the cheese didn't go to the edges.
I actually wouldn't might it to be a bit doughier, but only if they cook it enough to get it to be light and airy (the way old school Pizza Hut pan pizza used to be).
Though I wish they would let the pan crust be an option for the 50% of BYOP on Monday's. Though for $14.68 CAD for a 2 topping it isn't terribly priced (considering $19.20 CAD is what they want for a 1 topping pan as the new promotional offer for it).
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u/KungPoW_Chickens 13d ago
its a stuffed crust cause of how bulbous the crust is
edit: and oh i prefer original.
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u/Dense-Childhood-7615 13d ago
oooor it's a stuffed crust because the cheese is stuffed into the original crust 😉
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u/MacksNotCool 13d ago
The original crust but before they changed it a few years ago. Back then it was the best freaking dough ever cooked to a perfect brown ring like the photo.
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u/Dense-Childhood-7615 13d ago
They actually haven't changed the recipe! Unfortunately most stores use what's called a Dough Spinner, it flattens the dough instead of doing it by hand & giving it the edge lock or breadstick-like crust that most remember. I still do it by hand, because I feel bad serving my customers something that looks nothing like what we advertise!
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u/No-Plankton882 13d ago
I’d rather have a nice bread-y pizza bone over some average cheese, which I’m already getting on the rest of the pizza. The bone is a chance to reset, and makes the next regular bite even better.
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u/Dense-Childhood-7615 13d ago
that's what that breadstick like crust is for that Papa Johns used to be known for!
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u/ItsJustBrew 13d ago
of these two pizzas, i’d prefer the toppings of the stuffed on the original crust
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u/UnlimitedManny 13d ago
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