Syracuse, N.Y. (NCC News) – The intoxicating aroma of pizza one that cannot go unnoticed once it comes in contact with the senses. After all, it is one of the cuisines that the average person would eat at any time of day. The choice of blends people like with or on their pizzas makes pizzas a common food denominator.
The activity of electrocuting wood is a term that people would be unfamiliar with. After all, context clues may lead one to have an attempt, steering them to what it consists of, though a lack of understanding might linger.
Any incorrect guesses would be understandable, as unlike pizza, the knowledge and practicing of electrocuting wood might be limited.
However, one man has intertwined culinary creativity with scientific ingenuity, making it a significant part of his identity.
Wolfgang Dwyer, better known as ‘Wolf’, is the architect behind the curious connection between pizzas and electrocuting wood. For eight years, he and his wife, Linda Dwyer, have been operating the engine of the food truck called ‘Wolf’s Patio Pizza’, stopping at different locations. His near-decade stint in selling pizzas will soon end, deciding to focus his energy elsewhere.
Nevertheless, he outlines the start of his pizza-making business.
“I started in my backyard. I knew how to make pizzas. But I didn’t know how to sell them on the road. We would go to breweries and festivals. That’s how it all started out, just a snowball effect. Now I’m doing weddings, graduation parties; I gotta keep telling my wife to say no,” he said.
Ultimately, when one door closes, another one opens, which is the case for Dwyer and his enthusiasm for electrocuting wood. He constructs things such as tables, frames, and shelves, which he designs. He began to bask in this interest, turning it from a hobby and into his muse.
He designs these objects, giving them to family and friends as well as other people he meets. Yet, he had no drawing capabilities. He calls back on the initial stages of his designing skills.
“So, I’m on TikTok and they show you how to draw. It’s like oh, I can draw? I couldn’t draw a stick figure. And as I’m drawing, as the days go on, I would leave a picture for my wife every morning, maybe a stupid flower, a sunset, good morning, you know stupid stuff,” Dwyer said.
He mentions that giving people designs he creates and seeing their reactions, added with the reception he receives, makes him enjoy electrocuting wood.
“I’ve given my granddaughter a heart that I did, she loved it. It makes your day when you can make somebody happy and it doesn’t cost you that much. You know, I think I paid five dollars for that heart that I took apart, sanded electrocuted, stained it. It’s a little shelf with a heart and she loved it. So, it’s like that makes my day”, he said.
Throughout his years of selling pizzas on the street and electrocuting wood, the excitement that people let out is satisfying. Though these two corollaries emit from two different worlds, they result in happiness, and Dwyer reiterates this sentiment.
“If I can make somebody happy for the day, that’s living,” he added.
Wolf Dwyer will close his and his wife’s food truck business by the start of 2024.
