Pizza Hut Pan Pizza Base Copycat Recipe
A high-hydration dough proved in a pool of oil, so the base fries against the tin while the top bakes. Two hours, mos…
Cooking Pizza Hut at home, and what its menu costs
Pan pizza - which is a fried bread recipe pretending to be a pizza recipe, and that is the secret.
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Pizza Hut Pan Pizza Copycat Recipe
Three tablespoons of oil in the tin, a dough that proves where it bakes, and a base that fries from underneath. The o…
What Pizza Hut food actually tastes of
Three tablespoons of oil in the pan. Not one. Three. This is the step everybody quietly reduces and it is the entire technique.
The sauce is sweet, uncooked and heavy on dried oregano. Tinned tomato, sugar, oregano, garlic powder, a little salt, blended smooth and used raw. It cooks on the pizza.
Low-moisture mozzarella only. Fresh mozzarella releases water and turns the surface of a pan pizza into soup. Block mozzarella, grated yourself - pre-grated carries anti-caking starch that stops it melting into a sheet.
About Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut's pan pizza is the most misunderstood item in chain food. People try to copy it with a pizza recipe and fail, because it is not really a pizza technique. The dough proves in the pan, in a genuinely startling quantity of oil, and the bottom crust fries while the top bakes. That is where the crunchy, golden, almost doughnut-like base comes from, and no amount of stretching and stone-baking will produce it.
Get that one idea right and the rest follows easily: a sweetened tomato sauce with a heavy oregano hit, low-moisture mozzarella, and a bake hot enough to blister the cheese without drying the rim.
Britain and America have substantially different Pizza Hut menus, and the site's price tables show both. The recipes here follow whichever version the item actually is - the UK cheesy bites and the US stuffed crust are not the same product.
What Pizza Hut charges in 9 countries
The same item, priced from each country’s own menu and converted to one currency so the columns can be read against each other. Pizza Hut sets prices per market, so a gap here is the chain’s pricing rather than an exchange rate artefact – and the widest gap on this list is Super Supreme, which costs $24.08 in the dearest market and $3.07 in the cheapest.
| Item | 🇬🇧 GBP | 🇦🇺 AUD | 🇨🇦 CAD | 🇳🇿 NZD | 🇸🇬 SGD | 🇵🇭 PHP | 🇭🇰 HKD | 🇲🇾 MYR | 🇹🇭 THB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | $4.19 | — | $4.26 | $3.87 | $3.10 | $6.50 | $1.42 | $1.76 | |
| $13.08 | $14.93 | $28.51 | $8.69 | $9.29 | — | — | — | — | |
| $10.70 | $12.80 | $28.51 | $9.81 | — | — | $18.99 | — | — | |
| — | $16.81 | — | $11.50 | $9.29 | — | $24.08 | $3.07 | — |
Only items Pizza Hut prices in at least 5 of the markets we hold are listed, because a row with three figures in it is a gap rather than a comparison.
What Pizza Hut sells nearly everywhere
Ranked by how many of the markets in our price data carry the item with a published price. This is computed from the menu tables, so it reflects what the chain actually sells rather than what it advertises.
| Menu item | Markets priced | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Garlic Bread | 7 | - |
| Margherita | 5 | - |
| Hawaiian | 5 | - |
| Super Supreme | 5 | - |
| Chicken Supreme | 4 | - |
| Cheesy Garlic Bread | 3 | - |
| My Box | 3 | - |
| BBQ Chicken | 3 | - |
| Coca-Cola Zero Sugar | 2 | - |
| BBQ Chicken Melt | 2 | - |
| Americano | 2 | - |
| Melts Combo | 2 | - |
Build your Pizza Hut order, see what it costs
Tick what you would actually order. The total runs as you go, and where we have built the item at home you will see both figures side by side.
Other pizza chains
What else people compare Pizza Hut against, and what we hold for each.
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Pizza Express
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