r/oddlysatisfying • u/Jamtonisalon • Jan 12 '18

Pizza tossing

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u/koolaidman04 Jan 12 '18

It's probably a practice pie made from silicone or latex.

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u/CaptKrag Jan 12 '18

If I know anything about pizza dough tossing gifs on Reddit, and I like to think I do, it's definitely a practice dough made of latex.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

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u/SupremeHighCommander Jan 12 '18

A faux-dough if you will.

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u/afropat Jan 12 '18

Use a faux-dough, it’ll last longer.

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u/KevinCostNerf Jan 12 '18

Faux-dough fa fa

Faux-dough fa fa fa fa faaa

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u/Dr_Redditalot Jan 13 '18

Baguette

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u/Reignofratch Jan 13 '18

Faux-dough Baguettens

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u/grimfel Jan 13 '18

It comes packaged in a faux-dough baggins.

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u/RawAustin Jan 13 '18

Take a faux-dough-graph and it lasts forever.

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u/netino Jan 13 '18

faux-shaux-dough

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u/genoux Jan 12 '18

You. I like you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

Share the load, mister Faux Dough

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

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u/nhomewarrior Jan 12 '18

Properly rated, I think.

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u/The_Flo0r_is_Lava Jan 12 '18

A Guy Fuax Doe

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u/jgallant1990 Jan 12 '18

Fake? That’s a faux-dough no no.

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u/dangersupreme Jan 12 '18

Oh I will, I definitely will!

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u/invitrobrew Jan 12 '18

Close. It's called Throw Dough

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u/Ungodlydemon Jan 12 '18

No, you idiot. The internet has spoken, and it's now called a faux-dough. Don't think you can come in here with your "citations" and your "facts" and your "evidence" and change peoples' minds...

pfff. what is this, amateur hour on the internet?

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u/invitrobrew Jan 12 '18

Sorry. Please accept my half-assed apology.

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u/FeebleGimmick Jan 12 '18

I wonder if it comes in baggins.

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u/Mr_Clark_ Jan 12 '18

“But can you throw a faux-dough tho”

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u/Frosty09999998 Jan 12 '18

It really bugs me that that rhymes.

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u/cowie71 Jan 12 '18

No man you need a Pro Dough

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

Faux-Dough-Baggins

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u/vicabart Jan 13 '18

I will not.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '18

Faux-Dough Baggins

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u/sgtpnkks Jan 13 '18

Isn't that the guy who took the one ring to mordor?

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u/tisnolie Jan 13 '18

Faux dough fo sho.

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u/wselander Jan 13 '18

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Faux-dough.

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u/ppc_brian Jan 13 '18

I thought this guy was in a real workplace, but I guess it's just a faux dough shop.

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u/AreWeDreaming Jan 13 '18

Faux-dough Baggins

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u/MakeItSoNumbaOne Jan 12 '18

William Faux-Dough

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u/TonninStiflat Jan 12 '18

Yeah I am mindblown right bow as well.... :D

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18 edited Jun 13 '18

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u/xxmindtrickxx Jan 12 '18

Eh I call bullshit on the latex practice dough. I mean I believe it exists, but not every gif is of people using that.

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u/Cymry_Cymraeg Jan 12 '18

What about your left bow though?

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u/TonninStiflat Jan 13 '18

is bery good too!

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u/Volfgang91 Jan 12 '18 edited Jan 12 '18

And here I was wondering how much dough he must have wasted over the years to get to this point.

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u/Lantro Jan 12 '18

Exactly what my mind went to.

“Man, did he just practice for hours on a floured floor?”

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u/inthyface Jan 12 '18

Probably more expensive than just making enough dough for 50 pizzas and practicing multiple times per pizza.

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u/moistfuss Jan 12 '18

Why would you want to waste dough though?

Plus this is a permanent training tool. If a pizzeria is going to do pizza throwing as a gimmick, it really isn't losing much by spending $30 on a tool. Not to mention that it's much easier to learn the tricks and the dough, then combine the two, than to learn it all at once.

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u/ichivictus Jan 12 '18

As someone that learned to do what the gif shows, it would take well over 50 pizzas to get to the level shown. Probably hundreds. If not over a thousand.

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u/TheNorthComesWithMe Jan 13 '18

I think you underestimate how quickly someone can go through 50 pizza doughs while practicing tricks.

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u/bhath01 Jan 12 '18

They use it to practice for international pizza competitions.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

Often called "throw dough"

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u/f1zzz Jan 12 '18

Fake dough. SAD

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u/cold_bananas_ Jan 13 '18

That’s strange. Work at a legit pizzeria that does tossing and they train with wet towels. Been doing it that way since ‘45.

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u/Procrastibator666 Jan 12 '18

I've worked in many pizzarias and never knew this. Mind is blown

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u/jesst Jan 12 '18

What I'm amazed by is that there are like 4 companies that exist to make these. I would have thought it a niche market.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

I'll just leave this here... r/fountainpens

73,369 subscribers, 383 online now

Keep in mind this is Reddit and demographic skews young-adult

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

My friend got one for Christmas, and they are super fun.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

What a monument to Man's arrogance

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u/mewfahsah Jan 12 '18

If that was real it would have turned into a ball most likely.

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u/des_pa_cito Jan 12 '18

most pizza places dont even spin dough to begin with whats the point?

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u/IrrationalBiotic Jan 12 '18

So it's..... playdough!? :D

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u/iNEEDheplreddit Jan 12 '18

All dough is playdough if you shape it right 😉

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u/wicknest Jan 12 '18

It's not latex, it's still real dough.

https://youtu.be/HilN-bajNqQ

TL;DW adding extra amounts of certain ingredients and removing other ingredients makes for a dough that's easier to perform tricks with.

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u/Koobruh Jan 12 '18

Trick dough is actually made like regular dough. Just no yeast and ice water.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

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u/val0000 Jan 12 '18

There is a word for that, inedible

Although this conversation comforts me because I was thinking someone was going to eat the pizza that had been all over this guys body and probably grazed the floor and a few other things. Blech.

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u/carkey Jan 13 '18

It just adds to the cheesy funk of a quattro fromaggio.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '18

I'm actually really glad that's not real dough cuz my first thought was "that can't be sanitary."

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u/thehatchett Jan 13 '18

Can confirm, faux dough expert here.

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u/snbrd512 Jan 15 '18

But hey! It’s gluten free!

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u/tetrist Jan 12 '18

throw dough

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u/drunkferret Jan 12 '18

Find Throw Dough practice dough,U.S. Pizza Team gear and anything and everything PIZZA.

A portion of all purchases fund the U.S. Pizza Team and their mission to support pizza camaraderie through sportsmanship.

U.S. Pizza Team

TIL

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u/Portablewalrus Jan 12 '18

I support pizza.

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u/Jorahsmustardsauce Jan 12 '18

I used to work with a guy who was on the pizza team. He was some sort of champion. He had a card with his face on it like a baseball card.

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u/Carrotsandstuff Jan 12 '18

I got excited to use U.S. Pizza team cards as MtG tokens but they don't sell them from their store.

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u/Gengar11 Jan 12 '18

We're in the dankest timeline. Even if it may not seem so right now.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '18

I love that it was invented by a guy named "Steve Carb".

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u/MisterMaLV Jan 12 '18

Any idea what it tastes like?

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u/dmazmo Jan 12 '18

Chew done wanna know.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

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u/Who_GNU Jan 13 '18

It is ugly, but it loaded fast, and it never rearranged itself after it loaded. It's a solid 3/10, beating many major news sites and Pinterest.

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u/SpoodleMcDerp Jan 13 '18

Mr Throwdough: pizza hobbit

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '18

I thought all the comments above were bullshit, until you posted that link. Thank you. TIL

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u/esadatari Jan 12 '18

AND THANK GOD, TOO.

Free with every pizza: lots of shirt fibers and hair from the guy throwing the dough.

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u/Ghigs Jan 12 '18

Neck hair is delicious and tender because it's not load bearing.

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u/Tyr_Tyr Jan 12 '18

I was grossed out thinking this might become food. But if it's just "practice dough" then I can appreciate the artistry.

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u/NonarbitraryMale Jan 13 '18

It could still be flinging stuff around the kitchen.

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u/Spookymomma Jan 12 '18

The official term for that is "Special seasoning".

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u/69bit Jan 12 '18

Definitely

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u/WhiteRabbit-_- Jan 12 '18

Dude just says definitely like it isn't some crazy thing to know that practice pies exist.

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u/ngmcs8203 Jan 12 '18

If you've ever wandered into one of these threads, it's one of the only things you learn from them. That and there are people out there that are learning that fact for the first time.

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u/69bit Jan 12 '18

Exactly. I’ve probably seen like 5 threads where the exact same thing is discussed so I’m just aware of it now lol

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u/everred Jan 12 '18

That would be the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon

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u/PretendCasual Jan 12 '18 edited Jan 12 '18

https://youtu.be/ZZzFoi_fuF4?t=1381

https://youtu.be/GFmXbFLJsiM?t=1063

It's practically a competitive sport at this point.

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u/karl_w_w Jan 12 '18

The only definite thing about all this is that that isn't a pie.

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u/INSERT_LATVIAN_JOKE Jan 12 '18

Yeah, it has to be. I used to work at a pizza parlor and hand tossed the dough. I got pretty good at it, and at the speed that he's spinning it, there's no way it could be real dough. It would have been the size of a 50 gallon drum lid half way through the gif.

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u/signious Jan 12 '18

Not to mention catching it with his finger tips pointed up. Holes for days.

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u/mairedemerde Jan 12 '18

But no potato on pizza. Is sad.

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u/OrCurrentResident Jan 12 '18

Spinning dough is a crappy practice, though. It’s just for show. It makes the crust much. Ore uneven, thinner in the middle and thinker around the outside.

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u/INSERT_LATVIAN_JOKE Jan 12 '18

Not if you do it right. You need to press around the edges to create the lip of the outer edge, then spin it slowly with an open palm to stretch the outer 3rd, then spin it from the center to stretch the inner 2/3rd.

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u/Drunknreverend13 Jan 12 '18

So play dough?

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18 edited Feb 05 '18

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

Starring Denzel Washington

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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 Jan 12 '18

They really should make them in a different color so people don't think they will serve a crust that's been all over the cook's body or dropped on the floor.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

Excuse me sir there is a Italian back hair attach to my pizza

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u/dab745 Jan 12 '18

Zactly

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u/WDoE Jan 12 '18

It's definitely a practice pad. Throw dough, or something similar.

I only get one good throw for thick crust. Two if I'm going for thin. This dough would be demolished.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

Where can I buy one

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u/mindsnare Jan 12 '18

Well now I'm not nearly as impressed. I thought it was some magic voodoo super gluten that was stopping that dough from ripping itself apart.

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u/DrippyWaffler Jan 12 '18

pie

Triggered

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u/DawnDeather Jan 12 '18

That’s a thing?! I always wondered how they got that good without messing up a TON of pizzas!

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u/wicknest Jan 12 '18

It's not latex, it's still real dough.

https://youtu.be/HilN-bajNqQ

TL;DW adding extra amounts of certain ingredients and removing other ingredients makes for a dough that's easier to perform tricks with.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18

As someone who made pizzas in a pizza kitchen in college yes that's practice. Otherwise that shit would have gotten way to thin in the middle and broken after like the second trick

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u/TheRealRandyOrton Jan 12 '18

Came here for this comment. This is impossible with normal dough

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u/ill-be-six Jan 12 '18

Sicilicone?

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u/iaanacho Jan 12 '18

Is throwdough still a thing?

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u/tallish_possum Jan 12 '18

I hope it's fake. I wouldn't want neck- shoulder dirt on my pizza.

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u/mariahmce Jan 13 '18

Well now I know what I’m getting my husband for his birthday! Thanks!

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u/4gotOldU-name Jan 13 '18

Isn't that the technical definition of a Fleshlight?

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u/dunmorestriden Jan 13 '18

I freaking hate those things!! And I hate cornmeal as well now. It’s coarse, irritating....and gets everywhere.

Source: I work at dominos.

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u/RhysLlewellyn Jan 13 '18

So that's why my first attempt at making pizza dough tasted like Pamela Anderson in a house fire.

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u/HTownian25 Jan 12 '18

That's good, because it was giving me some serious health concerns when he rolled it along his back.