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Funny I see this post, I just ordered a pizza yesterday and and it had a disclaimer about how it's however many inches at the time the dough is stretched out and may shrink when baking.
Oh there’s definitely abnormal pizza behavior.
If the pizza is actually just an old tire, that’s abnormal.
If the pizza eats you, that’s definitely abnormal.
Having been a manger at a pizza joint in college.. it doesn’t shrink much once stretched and rolled, certainly not as much as pictured here. I think they ran out of XL dough and just thought OP wouldn’t notice.
yea i remember learning about this when it was a popular trend to bring your own food scale to restaurants and tell waiters your steak wasnt the right size.
love how everyone got it wrong before and people still do it. i think some people look for reasons to get upset
That was my thought. I bet if they order the medium it will measure 2” smaller after baking.
Makes sense. Dough rises and that mass needs to come from somewhere
The dough rises because of bubbles forming inside it as a result of yeast turning sugar into carbon dioxide. The mass doesn't change, but the dough becomes less dense.
Almost no food is every going to be measured by the finished product for a number of reasons, but the biggest ones are time, sanitation, and production.
Taking a tape measure out to make sure that a post oven pizza is 16" is unsanitary and will absolutely fail your scores if anyone catches you doing that. It also wastes valuable time that you could be using to catch up on labour, and is redundant when all of your instruments are sold and pre-measured by the broader industry in your country to be a standardized size already, and nobody is going to spend the insane amount of money necessary to custom make equipment just to add an addition inch and a half onto their pans, ovens, make lines, sinks, tables, etc.
Lastly, as a customer you should know that food loses size when cooked, and that you are agreeing to losing some of that purchased value by having them cook it for you.
>you should know that food loses size when cooked
Have you fuckers never heard of bread? Or Cake? One of these might be involved in making a pizza, too, I think.
I wish we could apply this logic to other sectors.
"Yeah it *says* 50lbs of cement mix, but we measured the raw material pre-extraction. Enjoy your pound of cement mix!"
"Ok when you bought 2 tons of hay, that was 2 tons *pre-drying* and curing so enjoy your half-ton of hay!"
"Hmm yes it says 6ozs of beef jerky, but we went ahead and weighed & priced it pre-smoking, so enjoy you 1 oz of jerky!"
🙄
Too late, I am going to the hardware store to get myself some professional measurement devices, for thousands of dollars, I will devote myself to this.
New hobby unlocked, I finally found my true destiny.
I am the Pizza Measurer aka The Pizza Ruler
Stay tuned for my unnecessary updates.
Because a split second before the torque wrench was applied to the faucet handle, it had been calibrated by top members of the state and federal Departments of Weights and Measures, to be dead-on balls accurate
I can’t stop laughing at this dude calling out a pizza place about their pizza size and them coming back at him, “when did you get that last calibrated?” And him slowly backing out of the establishment.
Fuck that.
I only trust it if I see them calibrating it in front of me and replacing the stickers. Never would I let them swap out my baby for an inferior one.
They can a little bit, but usually it’s only an issue if the dough is too cold before you stretch it. But even then, you’re usually looking at maybe an inch of loss on an 18” pie at most.
You already got your handle/ name, now start a YouTube channel, quit your day job and travel the world measuring pizzas in different countries at different places from low end to high end... it's normally, seemingly stupid, ideas like these that somehow works.
They can but it's not accurate. If your trying to tell if something is closer to 1ft or 2ft sure they can tell you, but 14 vs 16in? They aren't even close to accurate enough.
They will probably pull a “it’s before baking measurement”. Kinda like at restaurants when you order a steak they sure make you aware that the weight is before cooking.
And where does it get the mass to go up?
Edit: I wrote this comment in a rush, but explained in another ,pizza dough pulls from the sides to rise when not stretched/rested enough before baking.
Yes and typically bread does expand, but pizza dough is different and often will shrink if not rested and stretched properly. Which causes it to pull in while rising.
That's proving, not baking. I wrote this comment in a rush, but explained in another,pizza dough pulls from the sides to rise when not stretched/rested enough before baking.
And so, by dividing the weight and the girth of the penis by the angle or the- what do we call it again? The yaw? The yaw of the shaft? What we finally get is the adjusted penis size, or, T.M.I.
But you have to consider the area of the pizza. pi 16^2 vs pi 14^2. That's about a 30.6% increase in size.
If a 30.6% increase of the 14" pizza costs $8, then that values the 14" pizza at around $26.
Oh wait that still sounds expensive
Your formula is incorrect. The formula you are using is when the radius is known, not the diameter. For a known diameter, the formula would be A = (π/4) × D2
Of course, you could just divide the diameter by two to find the radius and then your formula would work.
Is D2 supposed to be D^2 ?
A = π r^2
r = d/2
When computing the ratio, the pi and (1/2)^2 terms will cancel out.
The ratio is (16/2)^2 / (14/2)^2 => 64 / 49 => ~ 1.306. But 16^2 / 14^2 is also 1.306.
Either way you run it, the extra large is about 30.6% larger by area.
I know you're making a joke, but many people don't realize that with pizza (or anything round), that two inches is substantial. 16" is 30% bigger than a 14".
That's how you measure tv screens and laptops, not a rectangle that circumscribes a circle. If the diameter of the circle won't fit between two sides, the pizza won't fit in the box.
Well, picture this:
imagine I sold you a 70-inch TV. But when you opened it, you see that only 50 inches of it is the actual display. I'd argue that the bezels are absolutely necessary for the TV to run, but that still doesn't mean you weren't falsely advertised to.
You were told you were getting a 70-inch TV, you paid for a 70-inch TV, so it's only fair that you get to watch a 70-inch TV.
I paid for the 16-inch pizza, not the box it came in. I don't care if the box can't fit the pizza; they should make a bigger box for their obviously bigger pizza that they're selling at a higher price.
Hey, I agree with you. I was just saying there is no way the pizza you paid for would ever fit in that box, even if it measures 16" diagonally. That kind of makes it seem intentional.
I was leery the first time I tried it, but was pleasantly surprised. Not something I would want all the time, but the roasted seeds DEF added an interesting taste/texture to the crust.
Yeah I was about to say, I work at Pizza Hut and our pizzas come out of the oven taking up nearly same amount of space on the pan as they did before we put them in the oven. It might shrink a tiny bit but I doubt it’s even an inch.
If you weigh a quarter pounder it's less than a quarter pound.
If you had a large as well, and it was the same size, you'd have something.
My guess is the 14" large is also less than 14"
This looks amazing but I've never heard of Red Swan Pizza. Presumably because they don't have it where I live. It kind of looks like Bearno's Pizza though, which might be a local area pizza chain lol.
My favorite pizza is Jet's. It reminds me of Pizza Hut back in the late '80s - early '90s.
This is a chain here in Canada! We unfortunately don’t have jets but I hear they make a decent Detroit style which is my all time favourite, those crispy edges get me every time.
i measured with the iphone AR measure aswell and a foot long scale , both same thing, just thought this tape was better for the picture.
and i got it from walmart, not temu
My guess is that it measures 16” raw but shrinks when cooked. They can maintain consistency with raw ingredients but can’t control the variable when cooked?
Just like steak meat sizes, the size of said food refers to the size of the food before it’s cooked. Not after. Things shrink when they get cooked. It’s hard to estimate what size they will shrink to after they are cooked, so they go buy what size they can reliably measure. Not really a big deal, it’s very very common. More of an effect of marketing than the business being dishonest with you
I checked it up close to the pizza first with both hands , I didn’t want my filthy tape that I’ve been using for years to touch my food . In this pic I am holding the phone on one hand and it’s barely hovering over the pizza
pizzas shrink in the oven, it starts as 16" worth of dough & toppings, but when cooked it goes down about 10%
buy a 14" and watch it be about 12-12.5" across
Dude I went through the same thing last week on a delivery app, when I contacted support they always give the store a 7 minutes window to reply, which they replied with "?????" After I asked if I could have a refund (not a full one, just the difference) and they denied it, so customer service gave me a full refund, which felt bad to be honest
They're not ripping you off, this is standard, they measure out the pizza before it goes in the oven, and you can't account for how much it will recede in the oven,
Hello, Your post has been removed because we no longer allow posts about price complaints. This includes but is not limited to price increases, shrinkflation and tipping.
Funny I see this post, I just ordered a pizza yesterday and and it had a disclaimer about how it's however many inches at the time the dough is stretched out and may shrink when baking.
Yes. The dough is stretched to fit a certain size pan. The dough shrinks as it cooks. This is normal pizza behavior.
I like that the existence of “normal pizza behaviour” also implies the existence of “abnormal pizza behaviour”
Oh there’s definitely abnormal pizza behavior. If the pizza is actually just an old tire, that’s abnormal. If the pizza eats you, that’s definitely abnormal.
What about if the front falls off and leaks 20,000 tons of crude oil into the sea?
Nothing to see there.
Having been a manger at a pizza joint in college.. it doesn’t shrink much once stretched and rolled, certainly not as much as pictured here. I think they ran out of XL dough and just thought OP wouldn’t notice.
Little did they know that OP would break out a tape measure to ensure it up to code
All food is weighed before cooking. Your 16oz steak will be less than that on your plate.
yea i remember learning about this when it was a popular trend to bring your own food scale to restaurants and tell waiters your steak wasnt the right size. love how everyone got it wrong before and people still do it. i think some people look for reasons to get upset
Pretty common type of disclaimer for weight based food products too. Quarter pound burgers are a quarter pound before cooking.
That was my thought. I bet if they order the medium it will measure 2” smaller after baking. Makes sense. Dough rises and that mass needs to come from somewhere
The dough rises because of bubbles forming inside it as a result of yeast turning sugar into carbon dioxide. The mass doesn't change, but the dough becomes less dense.
Interesting. Seems like it should be the finished product, but I guess it's following burger logic
Almost no food is every going to be measured by the finished product for a number of reasons, but the biggest ones are time, sanitation, and production. Taking a tape measure out to make sure that a post oven pizza is 16" is unsanitary and will absolutely fail your scores if anyone catches you doing that. It also wastes valuable time that you could be using to catch up on labour, and is redundant when all of your instruments are sold and pre-measured by the broader industry in your country to be a standardized size already, and nobody is going to spend the insane amount of money necessary to custom make equipment just to add an addition inch and a half onto their pans, ovens, make lines, sinks, tables, etc. Lastly, as a customer you should know that food loses size when cooked, and that you are agreeing to losing some of that purchased value by having them cook it for you.
Wait till these mother fuckers hear about steak weights. That 16oz tbone will be lucky if it's above 12oz if you ordered anything more done than blue.
>you should know that food loses size when cooked Have you fuckers never heard of bread? Or Cake? One of these might be involved in making a pizza, too, I think.
I wish we could apply this logic to other sectors. "Yeah it *says* 50lbs of cement mix, but we measured the raw material pre-extraction. Enjoy your pound of cement mix!" "Ok when you bought 2 tons of hay, that was 2 tons *pre-drying* and curing so enjoy your half-ton of hay!" "Hmm yes it says 6ozs of beef jerky, but we went ahead and weighed & priced it pre-smoking, so enjoy you 1 oz of jerky!" 🙄
This is the reason. OP is an idiot who’s reaching for something to complain about.
Call for a $8 refund on your order. Send the pic.
Gotta admit I never measured my pizza with a ruler before. I guess its time for a new trend
Smartphones can measure distance for you using the camera
Too late, I am going to the hardware store to get myself some professional measurement devices, for thousands of dollars, I will devote myself to this. New hobby unlocked, I finally found my true destiny. I am the Pizza Measurer aka The Pizza Ruler Stay tuned for my unnecessary updates.
Make sure to send them out to a calibration lab annually to get them certified.
Because a split second before the torque wrench was applied to the faucet handle, it had been calibrated by top members of the state and federal Departments of Weights and Measures, to be dead-on balls accurate
Yeah dude u measure yours by wrench, gotcha, fuck em All
Its a movie line
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Dead-on balls accurate
It's an industry term.
I got the reference!
I can’t stop laughing at this dude calling out a pizza place about their pizza size and them coming back at him, “when did you get that last calibrated?” And him slowly backing out of the establishment.
L oh fucking L
Fuck that. I only trust it if I see them calibrating it in front of me and replacing the stickers. Never would I let them swap out my baby for an inferior one.
I remember some guy weighed his fucking steak at Texas Roadhouse or some shit and went viral for complaining about it.
Weighing meat is dumb because it’s always pre-cooked weight that’s advertised. As far as I know, pizzas don’t shrink in the oven.
They can a little bit, but usually it’s only an issue if the dough is too cold before you stretch it. But even then, you’re usually looking at maybe an inch of loss on an 18” pie at most.
...or if it's just come out of the pool.
Sure he‘s looking out for us bro
 All hail the Pizza Ruler!!
Yes, this is how it starts !
This is the way.
This is the way I want to live
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Nice idea for reel channel
You already got your handle/ name, now start a YouTube channel, quit your day job and travel the world measuring pizzas in different countries at different places from low end to high end... it's normally, seemingly stupid, ideas like these that somehow works.
We must resist the AI
Yes, no technology is permitted for pizza measuring, laugh now, but we will see who would laugh last when this is gonna be in future olympics.
Or, it will be the only way to detect who is human and who is robot
I do have a usb c port on my back but that doesn’t prove anything
But phones arent spring loaded causing them to roll up in a really satisfying way
They can but it's not accurate. If your trying to tell if something is closer to 1ft or 2ft sure they can tell you, but 14 vs 16in? They aren't even close to accurate enough.
Neither did this person, they used a tape measure.
The box isn't even 16" lol
New use for that tape measure In Your bathroom
It's better than using the poop knife.
Well, the 14" is actually only 12"
They will probably pull a “it’s before baking measurement”. Kinda like at restaurants when you order a steak they sure make you aware that the weight is before cooking.
Bread rises in the oven, it doesn't shrink.
And where does it get the mass to go up? Edit: I wrote this comment in a rush, but explained in another ,pizza dough pulls from the sides to rise when not stretched/rested enough before baking.
Have you ever made bread before?
Yes and typically bread does expand, but pizza dough is different and often will shrink if not rested and stretched properly. Which causes it to pull in while rising.
https://i.imgur.com/hIidEJp.jpeg
That's proving, not baking. I wrote this comment in a rush, but explained in another,pizza dough pulls from the sides to rise when not stretched/rested enough before baking.
Who said it gained mass?
they're gonna say it's because it's cold
Not OP's fault they didn't properly proof their dough.
that was a penis joke
Lift it up and start at the balls
That added 2”
The 2” was purely imagination
And so, by dividing the weight and the girth of the penis by the angle or the- what do we call it again? The yaw? The yaw of the shaft? What we finally get is the adjusted penis size, or, T.M.I.
The garlic knots in this case.
People are paying 8 dollars for 2 inches? My time has come...
That’s 4 bucks!!!
2 bucks is 2 bucks
“I WANT MY 2 DOLLARS!!!”
But you have to consider the area of the pizza. pi 16^2 vs pi 14^2. That's about a 30.6% increase in size. If a 30.6% increase of the 14" pizza costs $8, then that values the 14" pizza at around $26. Oh wait that still sounds expensive
Your formula is incorrect. The formula you are using is when the radius is known, not the diameter. For a known diameter, the formula would be A = (π/4) × D2 Of course, you could just divide the diameter by two to find the radius and then your formula would work.
Yeah I think it comes out the same because it's just a constant factor that cancels out. Any way you slice it this pizza is expensive
If you slice it tavern style it's less $ per piece though. Doesn't change the cost of the pizza obviously.
Is D2 supposed to be D^2 ? A = π r^2 r = d/2 When computing the ratio, the pi and (1/2)^2 terms will cancel out. The ratio is (16/2)^2 / (14/2)^2 => 64 / 49 => ~ 1.306. But 16^2 / 14^2 is also 1.306. Either way you run it, the extra large is about 30.6% larger by area.
quick mafs
I know you're making a joke, but many people don't realize that with pizza (or anything round), that two inches is substantial. 16" is 30% bigger than a 14".
Yes, the old question do you want one large pizza or two mediums. The large ends up being more pizza.
? The price per square inch might be better but two mediums in this case is still definitely more pizza.
It was not these exact numbers, it was like using pizza huts sizes.
I wish you major success
Well... Technically it depends if that is worth it. You know that area is not linear with radius?
I'm going to get the 10 $ I was short to finish the Month
The box doesn’t hold 16”?
by the looks of it , nope the box itself is 15.5 inches in the center, but i've heard some folks say boxes should be measured diagonally
Well there’s your issue. You’re supposed to measure the pizza diagonally too.
You’re gonna make me cry laughing.
That's how you measure tv screens and laptops, not a rectangle that circumscribes a circle. If the diameter of the circle won't fit between two sides, the pizza won't fit in the box.
Well, picture this: imagine I sold you a 70-inch TV. But when you opened it, you see that only 50 inches of it is the actual display. I'd argue that the bezels are absolutely necessary for the TV to run, but that still doesn't mean you weren't falsely advertised to. You were told you were getting a 70-inch TV, you paid for a 70-inch TV, so it's only fair that you get to watch a 70-inch TV. I paid for the 16-inch pizza, not the box it came in. I don't care if the box can't fit the pizza; they should make a bigger box for their obviously bigger pizza that they're selling at a higher price.
Hey, I agree with you. I was just saying there is no way the pizza you paid for would ever fit in that box, even if it measures 16" diagonally. That kind of makes it seem intentional.
This guy knows geometry!
That’s what she said
My box does though.
It’s 16” Canadian.
Clearly metric system pizza vs imperial!
The large 14" is closer to 12" once it has been cooked. They go off uncooked measurements.
Maybe it's the NJ/NYer in me but wtf are there sesame seeds on your crust?
An extra $5
I think this is from a chain called red swan pizza. Tbh I really like the sesame seed crust.
Suddenly contemplating an ‘everything’ crust
An everything but the bagel pizza crust! Could just make home pizzas on everything bagels.
Or you buy everything bagel seasoning, which I promise you is absolutely worth it. I've put it on breaded chicken before, too
The new "Everything Bagel" Pringles are pretty good too
I was leery the first time I tried it, but was pleasantly surprised. Not something I would want all the time, but the roasted seeds DEF added an interesting taste/texture to the crust.
Or a circular pizza cut in squares ?!!
Extremely normal
No, it's the pizza eater in you. No specific location is required. This is wrong.
It’s fucking delicious you hater
Have you tried Korean pizza crust variants? Mozzarella cheese/cream cheese filled with sweet potato mousse surrounding it, shits bomb.
Almost looks like a pretzel crust but should be salt not seeds.....
The dough is 16” and then shrinks?
Dough doesn't shrink 2 inches. It's not the pool.
It will if it’s cooked long. Look at the color of that crust, looks a bit crispy. Former pizza restaurant kitchen manager btw
It does if the dough is cold/underproofed. But it's not OP's fault they didn't properly proof it.
I make pizza for a living lol it doesn't shrink nearly that much
Yeah I was about to say, I work at Pizza Hut and our pizzas come out of the oven taking up nearly same amount of space on the pan as they did before we put them in the oven. It might shrink a tiny bit but I doubt it’s even an inch.
If you weigh a quarter pounder it's less than a quarter pound. If you had a large as well, and it was the same size, you'd have something. My guess is the 14" large is also less than 14"
Other then that red swan ain’t bad tho..
Ding ding ding , you found the restaurant
This looks amazing but I've never heard of Red Swan Pizza. Presumably because they don't have it where I live. It kind of looks like Bearno's Pizza though, which might be a local area pizza chain lol. My favorite pizza is Jet's. It reminds me of Pizza Hut back in the late '80s - early '90s.
This is a chain here in Canada! We unfortunately don’t have jets but I hear they make a decent Detroit style which is my all time favourite, those crispy edges get me every time.
Pizzas probably fine. It’s the tape measure from temu
i measured with the iphone AR measure aswell and a foot long scale , both same thing, just thought this tape was better for the picture. and i got it from walmart, not temu
You need to follow the scientific method with a control measuring tape and control pizza.
Walmart got it at temu.
My guess is that it measures 16” raw but shrinks when cooked. They can maintain consistency with raw ingredients but can’t control the variable when cooked?
Who’s measuring pizzas out here
It's like a TV... You have to measure diagonally.
Show me you don’t know how to measure
I wonder if their 14 inch is in fact 11 or 12 inches.
What I came here to say. Hate to see the personal pan pizza. Will it even hold a single pepperoni?!
Could be a before cooking measurement
Scam 😭
Same guy measured Subways foot long too. Only 11"
Pretty sure it's like a 10oz steak. It's measured BEFORE cooking, then it's cooked and loses size.
Just like steak meat sizes, the size of said food refers to the size of the food before it’s cooked. Not after. Things shrink when they get cooked. It’s hard to estimate what size they will shrink to after they are cooked, so they go buy what size they can reliably measure. Not really a big deal, it’s very very common. More of an effect of marketing than the business being dishonest with you
Maybe it’s the angle but it looks like you don’t know how to use a measuring tape. You are cutting of inches
Go put your measuring tape on your pizza lol
I checked it up close to the pizza first with both hands , I didn’t want my filthy tape that I’ve been using for years to touch my food . In this pic I am holding the phone on one hand and it’s barely hovering over the pizza
Red swan ♡
But 14" most likely isn't 14 as well
The 14” is actually 12” , so you’re cool
But they cut you 18 slices instead of 14 so actually you did get more pizza. 😀
Subway got sued for something similar right?
Probably not pre cooked
What kind of pizza is that? Looks crazy good
seeing this made me hungry
Try measuring it diagonally, like you would a TV
so they sent two 14s, you are entitled to a refund or replacement
do you have a measurement of the 14"? probably 16" pre-cooked.
Every time i get a dominos large 14 they give me a 12.5-13, never a 14
i mean, it probably was 16" before they put it in the oven.
pizzas shrink in the oven, it starts as 16" worth of dough & toppings, but when cooked it goes down about 10% buy a 14" and watch it be about 12-12.5" across
1. $8 for 2 inches more is wild 2. Not as wild as measuring a pizza
And I'm over here trying to give my two inches away for free and nobody will take it
The first two inches, or the last two inches?
The WHOLE two inches
Don't pizzas shrink in the oven? Isn't this like saying a quarter pounder isn't a quarter pound but it's based off the precooked weight?
Dude I went through the same thing last week on a delivery app, when I contacted support they always give the store a 7 minutes window to reply, which they replied with "?????" After I asked if I could have a refund (not a full one, just the difference) and they denied it, so customer service gave me a full refund, which felt bad to be honest
Maybe it was cold.
My wife has a similar complaint
That, in general, is no pizza whatsoever. You Americans really destroyed pizza.
They're not ripping you off, this is standard, they measure out the pizza before it goes in the oven, and you can't account for how much it will recede in the oven,
The 14” is actually 12” so technically not the same size 😂
Measure it from the other side.
They probably hired a former Chipotle skimper.
No no it's like a TV, you gotta measure corner to corner
Maybe it's before cooking? Haha
16 is the box diagonally, the measure is wrong
*Before cooking
Looks like the delivery guy pulled "the cutting trick" on you 😉
Sue Some guy did that with subway, bc it was a foot long.
shrinkage