AI6YR BenOkay, what kind of idiot buys a Bluetooth-enabled, app-controlled pizza oven which has a "digital temperature hub". MAKE IT STOP!
(not yet AI-enshittified, though. Better get on it, folks!)
THEY SELL PACKAGES OF PIZZA DOUGH BALLS, WHICH ARE FLOUR, YEAST, SALT, AND WATER, FOR $99.00 #dumb
indi 🪡@ai6yr authorized bread! Paging @pluralistic
3Jane Tessier Ashpool@ai6yr to be fair, that is for 24 of them
@3janeTA These folks are incapable of mixing flour, dough, salt, and water together?
WAIT, I HAVE A GREAT STARTUP IDEA
"AI POWERED PIZZA DOUGH APPLIANCE! BLUETOOTH ENABLED! MAKES PIZZA DOUGH AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLED BY AN APP!"
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Led By Gilded Fools
Kevin Karhan 
BobsShadow@ai6yr @3janeTA Flour for pizza dough is much finer than all-purpose flour. Still at $2.19/oz, over $19 per dough ball.
It's only $7.75 plus shipping for 1.5lbs of pizza flour.
https://www.janiesmill.com/collections/shop/products/italian-style-pizza-flour
dragonfrog@rsanders @ai6yr @3janeTA
Where are you getting $2.19 an ounce?
24 dough balls weighting 9 oz each (13.5 lb total), for $99 - about $4.12 a dough ball, or $7.33 a pound of dough.
Assuming 75% hydration, that's about 7.7 lb of flour, effectively $12.80 / lb to get it already mixed into dough and portioned up.
Overpriced but not that insanely so compared to the (already quite pricey) flour you linked.
Cavedale Rhônes@CavedaleRhones @ai6yr @3janeTA I use Janies for a few reasons, and KAF is good flour:
Buying in 10 lb and 20 lb bags gets the price lower and I have freezer space to store.
I found their rolled oats taste better than Bob's Red Mill.
I like that I can mix their bread flour, spelt, and Red Fife when making bread. 6 oz, 5 oz, 5 oz. I like that flavor.
Their all-purpose flour makes pretty good gravey and red chile sauce.
I've got maybe 10 yrs left +/-, so flavor and enjoyment tops price to some extent.
Supporting a small, organic, farm is a fine thing.
Bruce Elrick
DianeTrader Joes sells 16 oz bags of pizza dough for $1.49.
https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/plain-pizza-dough-092334
So buying the same amount of pizza from TJs would cost $20.11.
And yes I think it's even cheaper to do it yourself, though you have to manage getting the dough to rise.
@alienghic @ai6yr wow, I saw but didn’t read the “9 oz”!
W6KME@3janeTA @ai6yr Yeah, that's about 4 bucks per pie, but pre-made. The TJ's dough is a bit less than half that, but you still need to mix it.
There are times I'd rather mix my own dough, and times I'd be willing to pay a couple of bucks to just pull out a pre-mixed ball of dough and cook it. Convenience costs.
The goofy part is a Bluetooth oven. Using an app to do what, turn the gas up or down? I'd read those terms and conditions very closely.
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Simon 🐮
@ai6yr Only one step away from "Only works with certified dough", which of course was predicted by Doctorow in "Unauthorized Bread"
Third spruce tree on the left@Firesphere @ai6yr I preferred the story about where the billionaires died and the rest us got along just fine.
Michael BuschI have to make gluten-free pizza dough from scratch. Even that costs far less than this scam.
Annelies Kamran, Ph.D.@michael_w_busch @ai6yr but if we could get hold of their list of marks, ahem, I mean customers, what riches lie in store!
Laurel Stvan
Allpoints@ai6yr
Just a reminder that your local pizza shop (local, not one of the chains) may sell you just the dough for a reasonable price. I generally make my own, but sometimes I'm too lazy or just haven't planned ahead. So, popping into my local for a dough isn't unheard of.
jbaggs@allpoints @ai6yr I never thought of doing that. An Ethiopian restaurant I frequented did quite the business in injera though, so I shouldn't be surprised some pizza places do this.
Cookiefiend@jbaggs @allpoints @ai6yr I understand buying injera. Teff is not as readily available as wheat flour.
glasspshrNow I gotta check out all star pizza bar in Cambridge
@glasspusher @ai6yr I'm a fan. Diagonally across the intersection is All Star Sandwich Bar. Same owner. Also worth checking it out.
#Cambridge #AllStarPizza #AllStarSandwich #InmanSquare
#Cambridge #AllStarPizza #AllStarSandwich #InmanSquare
@allpoints @ai6yr I’ll be in town next Wednesday
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@glasspusher @ai6yr wasn't aware of that. looks interesting. Sorry that I'm going to miss it. Hope you have clear skies
Paul Lalonde@ai6yr more frightening: someone buys them.
FreddyB Aviation Photography@ai6yr on a sidenote, making dough is such an incredible pain in the ass so a couple of our artisanal pizza places sell their dough and you just stop and get a little bit throw it in no worries and no mess. I am the figurative bull in the flour shop and cannot make dough without a hour of cleaning EVERYTIME. And no its not web enabled lol and if it was I would NOT use it.
These pizza cook fast and its not a set it, have a beer and return. You have to ride heard on those suckers unless you want charcoal
LisPi
Bowreality 🇨🇦
J.L.1285 
@Bowreality That was shocking! I think I can have the dough prepped in less than ten minutes, then just let it sit in the fridge for the day. I’d fail as an entrepreneur with this because I’d be too embarrassed to charge anywhere near that price for such simple ingredients.
@CAWguy 🤫🤣
How do we justify that price when you tell everybody how easy and cheap it is to make homemade dough?
How do we justify that price when you tell everybody how easy and cheap it is to make homemade dough?
@Bowreality We go back to the activated carbon craze and tell our customers we’ve added cancer absorbing nanoparticles to our dough?
@CAWguy Oh boy 🙈