Finally, the day of my first ever pizza competition has arrived, and I was quite excited! As it was a competition to find the best breakfast pizza , naturally the pizza contest was going to be held very early in the morning, so I had to prepare myself for this a couple of days ahead. I often work late into the night, so getting up early is not always that easy. I set my alarm for 5am, as I had to be there by 6:15am, and it was a good 30-40 minute drive to get to the location. I got up bright and early with the sparrows, and just as the sun was rising, and began to ready myself. I didn’t really know what to expect, had no idea what my competition was going to be like, or how many people would turn up to watch! I was mostly excited, but there were a few butterflies in the gut as well. Arriving At The Breakfast Pizza Challenge Breakfast Pizza Challenge Competitors I was the first competitor to arrive as I got there a little bit early (6am), and the radio team were still setting up the work stations and equipment. All the ingredients were already supplied, so thankfully that was something that I didn’t have to worry too much about, all I had to do was rock up and cook Only a few minutes later my first competitor arrived, Emma, so we introduced ourselves and started having a sticky beak around the work area that was set up for us. Emma was making a breakfast pizza with the lot, basically every big breakfast type ingredient that you could think of all on the one pizza, so she had a quick look around to discover that unfortunately a couple of her ingredients were missing. A quick dash to the shops, and a call out on the radio by the DJ solved the ingredient issue, however a bit of stress had set in to start off the day. In the meantime, Chris, our other competitor had also arrived, so we met and had a quick chat about the upcoming pizza challenge as well. Chris was making a dessert pizza , with strawberries, chocolate, marshmallows and ice cream. The whole day was very friendly, and mostly relaxed, aside from Emma’s issues missing out on some of her ingredients, so we all just had a bit of fun together cooking up some pizzas … The Breakfast Pizza Challenge Begins… We were asked to begin prepping our pizzas, and straight away Emma and Chris began furiously working away and chopping up their ingredients. For me, I had made the Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza so simple and easy that I really didn’t have a lot to do, so I basically started putting some of the toppings on my pizza base and waited for some people to start arriving so I could cook the pizza and make sure it was hot and fresh for the first trials. Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza – The First Trial Breakfast Pizza Cooking In The Pizza Oven The first two pizzas were a bit of a disaster, as the pizza oven was a bit different to what I’m normally used to, and getting used to the Pizza Stone which was in the oven took a couple of attempts to get right. I burnt half of the bottom of each base, but luckily half was still good to use, so I kept one side and sneakily threw out the rest so that no one ever knew Just as I pulled the first pizza out (I was way ahead of the other two, they still hadn’t put anything in their oven yet) , the DJ asked me to come up to the booth and speak on air. So luckily for me I had my first piece to take with me and let him try, while I had a quick chat on the radio about my eggs florentine breakfast pizza creation .

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