Let's make pizza or Let's make a pizza

Should we say 'Let's make pizza for lunch!' OK

or 'Let's make a pizza for lunch!'? OK

Should we say 'Let's make salad for dinner!' OK

or 'Let's make a salad for dinner!'? OK

Should we say 'Let's bake cake for dessert!'

All three items you have chosen can be used as countable or as uncountable nouns, so all six versions are correct.

The uncountable forms (pizza, salad, cake) conceptualize these foodstuffs as substances, of which you can have as much or as little as you like. Such substances are measured in amounts.

How much [pizza / salad / cake] should we make?

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Thanks As. Your approach is very specific to the subject in question. And thanks CJ for the explanation on 'substance'.

Ho

To me, Let's bake cake sounds very strange. When I bake a cake it is always a single countable object that consists of batter in a pan or set of pans. And after baking it, you take it out, let it cool, and put decorations on it. That is "baking a cake." I think this combination is too specific as compared to the general nature of the others. eg. Let's have cake for dessert.

All six sentences are grammatically okay. However, you'd never hear these sentences spoken in a lifetime. First, no one makes pizza from scratch anymore. Pizza has become a home delivery item or a go out and eat item. If you make a pizza at home it's going to be of the heat it up, frozen variety. So what you'd hear is something like: "Let's heat up this pizza for lunch."

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All the sentences in the A and B dialog are grammatically okay, but again, you would not hear this spoken. The sentence, "How much beer do you want?", just makes no real-world sense. You either give a person a beer in a bottle or can, or if it's in a pitcher, the person pours it for himself. Beer is not an item that you pour out for a person.

You might hear this type of dialog with whi

Let's bake cake sounds very strange.

Oops! I misread it as Let's make cake. That's not quite so strange, is it?