Pizza Hut Kitchen Tour

Ain't got much today! Went down to Pizza Hut at Bukit Timah as part of an enrichment course, to have a tour around the kitchen and see how pizza is made at the biggest pizza chain restaurant in Singapore.

NOTE: This is not about a good pizza or place of recommendation. I personally cannot stand Pizza Hut pizza. The toppings are not generous enough, and there's just wayy too much dough (that doesn't taste good for that matter). Or maybe it's just me: I like thin crust pizzas, not those 4:1 dough-ingredient ratio.

The tour was majorly disappointing. The kitchen is really small, we didn't get to play with pizza dough/ make our own pizzas (like I was hoping we would) and it was really quick. Oh, we were served a Pizza Hut meal each, that basically comprised a mushroom soup, a Hawaiian personal pan and Pepsi. Ick. The pizza was actually better than the soup. Warning: stay clear of the soup as much as possible. Don't ask.

Anyway, back to the tour: I sneaked my cam into the kitchen and took some pictures, however, the pictures weren't really good (I didn't know if a camera was allowed you see, so I just took pictures quickly whenever I could :D)

the hardware

So we were given an introduction to the machines that play the parts in helping us create the godly thing called Pizza (not saying that about the pizza there in particular though..). There's the big dough mixer, that well, mixes the flour and oil and everything else you need to make the base for the pizza. Then there's the large oven-machine, where you put the ready-made-but-uncooked pizza at one end and it'll come out at the other end in 7 minutes, ready to be served. Okay, that sounded like some sort of horrible digestive system, hmm.

The last picture is that of the cold room, where all the ingredients are stored. I took a walk in and smelled pepper chicken or something. There's cartons and cartons of bags in which all the topping were stored and a very interesting piece of paper stuck on the wall that read "ANY AMOUNT OF APPLE/ORANGE JUICE THAT IS STOLEN FROM THE COLD ROOM WILL BE REPORTED TO THE POLICE". Okay. I do not want to know what goes on in there.

Then a lady gave us a demonstration of making a regular Hawaiian pizza. That itself wasn't really interesting - all she did was count sprinkle half a cup of cheese over the base, put 15 pieces of ham (yes, they count and make sure it's 15), scatter a cup worth of pineapples over that and end off with another half cup of cheese.

The more interesting part was the colourful array of ingredients displayed. It all looked quite pretty, and we were soo tempted to pick some up with our bare hands and eat them like that. (Hygiene freaks back off! Nothing gets between us and food). There's also a chart against the fridge, that basically tells you how much of what ingredient to put on what type of pizza! Unfortunately I didn't manage to get a clear shot of that (was too bust trying to be conspicuous), so we will never know.

The uh. Personal pizza of my friend's. With heaps of cheese. Uh. Heaps.

That concludes the little tour we had. Pizza Hut has come up with a new Thin Crust Pizza, which I have yet to try. Hmm. Have my doubts about it, but shall go try it someday.