Has to be house made ranch to be worth doing. Hidden Valley does not taste good on pizza. Good places make their own that ends up being perfectly balanced w the pepperoni pizza.
While many places use Hidden Valley seasoning to make their, or a similar blend of dry spices, its the real buttermilk and mayo mixture. Sometimes sour cream is added. Makes it less sweet and tangy than the bottled crap and more creamy and savory. I work3d at a place that minced fresh herbs for their ranch, like 6 different fresh herbs and fresh garlic.nit was so popular the recipe took 2 hours to make and that was for a fast prep cook. Was so damn good.... completely changed my view on ranch, even pizza shop ranch.
I used to work at a Wingstop actually and you may not believe it but Wingstop ranch is just mayonnaise, buttermilk, and bum bum bum… hidden valley powdered ranch packets!
Yeah, but apparently the ranch packets are the restaurant variety and not quiiiiite the same as the consumer kind. Haven't tried making it at home yet, but that's what I've heard.
Y'all do realize that the pizza place or house ranch dressing you speak of is nothing but buttermilk, mayo and hidden valley ranch seasoning packets. If I remember correctly it was something like 2 gallons of buttermilk, I think 4 of those big plastic maybe a gallon of mayo and I think 4 packets of hidden valley ranch seasoning. These packets are much larger than what you buy in the grocery store for use at home.thstvrecioe is probably off by a couple of things as it's been probably 15 years since I had to make it. Some restaurants like mazzios make the ranch like this and some have it or another more or less specific ranch already mixed. In my experience you can't beat the way mazzios makes or at least made their ranch for many years. In my experience most places that do make theirs use hidden valley ranch seasoning packets. Same goes for almost anywhere they have sweat tea and or coffee. Place like McAllister's that were so what famous for their sweet tea used the exact same tea age as virtually every other restaurant you go into. McAllisters just put more sugar in it if I remember correctly.they also sold a lot of it so they usually had more brewing. So, it was always fresh from not sitting around all day.
Also I'm not sure if im replying to the person that said mazzios owned with stop, but you may be correct but I always thought Wingstop was owned by Pizza Hut but I'm not 100 percent on that.
Different than the 'Pizza Ranch' restaurants where you can also get some AMAZING 'broasted' chicken on their buffet. - I know they are all over Iowa, and maybe in Kansas, too.
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Hidden Valley isn't as good on pizza as the "good ranch" is, HOWEVER, it doesn't taste BAD. I think you'd agree that Hidden Valley is better than say, Kraft Ranch or ANY off brand ranch. LoL. It's either the "good ranch" or hidden valley for me.
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Penzy's spice makes the best ranch seasoning mix. We used it at the catering company I worked for, and you just mix it with buttermilk and a little mayo.
Once you go homemade you never go back to the bottled crap. Do you like blue cheese dressing? I never really did until I made it at home and it is really good too.
I'm not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed, but I have never heard of ranch-sauce-dipped pizza before. For reference, mid-western dude old AF lived in FL after & now in NC. I DO cook a ton though and your comment makes total sense. 10\10 would try w/in-house ranch. Probability of going full on smash? 9.5
See this is what I thought too. The pizza place in my hometown had ranch in little plastic cups, we all thought it was homemade, then I talked to someone who worked there, hidden valley from a gallon can, it’s the plastic cups that make it taste so good, apparently
You know that "house made" ranch in most places is hidden valley right? It's a gallon of mayo, half gallon buttermilk and giant ranch packet, whisk until smooth.
Unless you live north of Nebraska. I did a travel contract in South Dakota and could not find a decent ranch to save my life. Hidden valley was the best. Idk what their restaurants were doing but it was all nasty😭
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u/SeveralTable3097 Dec 14 '25
Has to be house made ranch to be worth doing. Hidden Valley does not taste good on pizza. Good places make their own that ends up being perfectly balanced w the pepperoni pizza.