What is the difference between buffalo chicken and BBQ chicken pizza?

Buffalo uses cayenne hot sauce and usually a cool finish (ranch or blue cheese). BBQ uses a sweet smoked sauce. The photo here is the barbecue pie. The method is the same: leftover chicken, a sauce, cheese, a hot floor. The recipe for the sweet one is BBQ Chicken Pizza.

How do you make buffalo chicken pizza?

Toss shredded cooked chicken with hot sauce, not a puddle of it. Spread a thin swipe of sauce on New York Pizza Dough, add Low-Moisture Mozzarella, then the chicken. Bake at 500°F (260°C). Ranch or blue cheese after it comes out, or the pie steams.

Barbecue chicken pizza, the sweeter cousin of a buffalo chicken pie

Hot sauce, not barbecue

Buffalo chicken pizza

Buffalo chicken pizza: shredded chicken, cayenne hot sauce, mozzarella, a ranch or blue cheese finish. How it differs from BBQ chicken pizza.

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Buffalo chicken is a bar pie that crossed onto delivery menus. The picture on this card is barbecue chicken, because that is the chicken pizza we have on film. Do not put that sweet sauce on a buffalo pie. The build is the same. The bottle is not.

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Cook the chicken first. Raw chicken on a 12-minute pizza is a bad idea. Shred it, toss it in cayenne hot sauce, and keep the extra sauce off the dough. Sauce under the cheese, chicken on top.

Low-Moisture Mozzarella browns and does not weep the way fresh mozzarella does under a wet topping. A Baking Steel Original preheated 45 minutes. If the centre is wet, you used too much sauce. That is the same failure as any other soggy pie.

Common questions

What is the difference between buffalo chicken and BBQ chicken pizza?: Buffalo uses cayenne hot sauce and usually a cool finish (ranch or blue cheese). BBQ uses a sweet smoked sauce. The photo here is the barbecue pie. The method is the same: leftover chicken, a sauce, cheese, a hot floor. The recipe for the sweet one is BBQ Chicken Pizza.
How do you make buffalo chicken pizza?: Toss shredded cooked chicken with hot sauce, not a puddle of it. Spread a thin swipe of sauce on New York Pizza Dough, add Low-Moisture Mozzarella, then the chicken. Bake at 260°C (500°F). Ranch or blue cheese after it comes out, or the pie steams.