Deep Dish-Getting Close-Need Cheese Help

[PizzaGarage]

That Cedar Valley is some fine cheese, but where do you buy it in the Chicago area? I see Galbani at some supermarket deli's, plus Woodman's sometimes has packaged blocks.

You can buy at Restaurant Depot at least the one by me.  If you want to can drive to their store in Belgium Wi and they also have shipping.  I go to lots of the dairies to try their cheese so I'm used to heading into Wisconsin and usually hit a few places in the same day.  Definitely a good cheese, especially the whole milk.

If you have a LLC you can get into all the pizzeria supply places in Chicago.  You can buy over the counter however at Battaglia, they have a full catalog and you can get commercial items, they are in Chicago, so maybe call there to see if they carry it then stop over. 

[Garvey]

I had about ten failed attempts to cook a deep-dish pizza. So I didn't find out what the secret was, it was too dry for me, sometimes I didn't put enough cheese, sometimes it was too thin. I feel like you have to be born to cook such a recipe. Maybe I'll try a few more times, and your recommendations will help me.

Sorry to hear this!  From having made a bajillion thin crust pizzas over the years and also plenty of deep dish, I think deep dish is orders of magnitude easier to nail, easier to make, easier to prep, etc., than thin crust.

The absolute best advice I could give anyone trying to learn DD is to follow a highly detailed, tried-and-true recipe.  Luckily, forum member Ed aka vcb has provided that very thing here: https://www.realdeepdish.com/RDDHolyGrail.pdf

That, and get a kitchen scale.

HTH,
Garvey

[YourWarning]

Of course, thank you for the information. Now I want to visit almost all Italian restaurants in Chicago, and your post will greatly help me. I would be glad to know about some unusual Italian places where you can eat great Pizza. By the way, I want to share with gourmets (if they are here), when I was in Germany, I decided to go to The Riwa restaurant-bar. I really liked how delicious Pizza, burgers and other dishes are cooked there. I never thought I would like food more in Germany than in the USA.

[Try My Deep DiSh]

I gotta say @Nuke83 .... That Crust looks spot on my man. I was just doing research on some deep dish and your looks exactly like i had back in Chicago from Lou's. Do you have a recipe your willing to share?