Posted: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 1:34 pm
In three minutes, your hand-made, personal pizza is ready after being cooked in a wood-burning stove, all inside a new food truck in downtown Waco.
900 Degrees Wood Fired Pizzeria — launched by brothers Justin Duty, 31, and Caleb Duty, 28 — parked at University Parks Drive and Franklin Avenue a week ago, and sold 20, one-size-fits-all pizzas in the first day.
Each pizza is made from scratch with authentic Neapolitan dough, and sauce straight from Italy.
Justin Duty said the food truck is an economical way to determine if a brick-and-mortar version of the pizzeria would be sustainable downtown. Duty said as the seasons change and demands for different products arise, the menu will be flexible. He said they plan to eventually have a TV screen for the customers to watch as a camera inside the food truck projects the pizza being cooked.
“It’s a neat product and there’s nothing else like it downtown,” he said.
Caleb Duty said the food truck offers a little taste of history with the wood-flavor pizzas. The brothers’ father, Roland Duty, owns Poppa Rollo’s Pizza.
“My brother and I have been making pizza since before we could walk,” Caleb Duty said.
Benjamin Allen, one of the food truck workers, said it takes about an hour and a half for the oven to reach 900 degrees.
He said he thinks the most interesting pizza is the $7 Margherita pizza, which features crushed San Marzano tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, Parmesan, basil and olive oil. Allen said it’s as close to the original pizza as one can get.
“It’s cool because no one really cooks with the open fire any more,” worker Larod Griggs said while he prepared the pizza.
The food truck also offers a BBQ Chicken pizza, a Hawaiian pizza, and a Carnivore pizza, plus the opportunity to chose your own toppings.
The truck is closed Sundays and Mondays, and open for lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Saturdays. It opens for dinner Thursdays through Saturdays from 4 p.m. until sold out.
For more information, find 900 Degrees Wood Fired Pizzeria on Facebook, go to http://www.facebook.com/900degreesmobile or call 254-722-4225.
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