/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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because you buy the shit ones. good frozen pizzas are better than shit fresh ones, and about as good as decent fresh ones

>>6510027
I like Red Baron original crust best.

:)

There's no such thing as a frozen pizza so shitty you can't fix it by yourself. Olive oil is usually enough for kinda bad ones. But it makes you wonder why you couldn't just order from a good place. Also >>6510030

>>6510030
I was about to post this, almost word for word.

Dr Oetker and Goodfellas do great frozen pizzas, Chicago Town and Anaka are okay, but some others are totally inedible.

I've heard that the "Gino's" division of Anaka Foods make horrible frozen pizza but I tried some about 8 years ago that just said"Anaka" on there (no "Gino") and they were pretty good. It was kind of a curry flavoured pizza range and they were a quid each. Anyone else remember those?

I like jacks over all the rest. It doesn't even taste like pizza or anything. I just accept it for what it is and I enjoy it.

>>6510207
>great for grilling

wat

>>6510030
>>6510101
this says a lot about american pizza then, if you consider frozen pizza on par with it at times.

frozen pizza is always shit, there are zero exceptions. not "inedible", but "shit compared to actual pizza". 100% of the time.

>>6510210
I never noticed that when I buy them but the ones in my freezer have it on them. Weird. But I guess since they are so thin they think you can throw them on a grill for a few minutes and it will be okay. Kind of weird even to me and I am the one who posted them soooo...Not really sure

>>6510027
Usually because of cheap shitty cheese, but the freezing process also makes many toppings mushy.

>>6510210
Maybe they mean like this.

I just got a George Foreman grill and I'm tempted to try this. Wouldn't the topping get stuck to the top grill though?

>>6510210
You can actually cook pizza on a standard grill.
Hell, you can even cook on on a running car engine if you know what you're doing. You just need to wrap it in foil.

>>6510101

dr oetker's pizza mozzarella my shit

>>6510027
Because an authentic gastronomic experience (pic related) can't just be frozen and mass produced

Because they know they cater to the lowest denominator.

>>6510257
>plate too small
>pizza placed off centre towards the 11 O'clock position on plate
>18th century cutlery for eating pizza
>cheese salad as a pizza topping
>no mushrooms
>comma used as decimal point on beer bottle label
>water in glass that was clearly marked as being intended for the beer
>glass placed at the 12 O'clock position of the plate, requiring me to reach over the food for it

Terrible. Now look at my pic:

>ample sized plate
>pizza placed centrally on the plate
>generous helping of mushrooms
>comes with (ample-sized) colourful box listing all the ingredients
>made by a qualified doctor
>literally has the word "fun" in it's name
>box placed at 12 O'clock position of the plate for easy viewing
>no knife and fork or even slices for maximum fun

>>6510275
Mushrooms are awful and that pizza is not appetizing, but I'll still admit it looks more like food than >>6510257 does.

>>6510275
>>comma used as decimal point on beer bottle label
Why do you americans always have to be so egdy and different?

>>6510027
It's only tomato sauce based pizzas that are shitty
get literally any other kind. barbecue, white sauce, buffalo.

>>6510275
Goddamn, the doc's funghi pizza is the best! They're on sale at my local supermarket now, gonna get me a few and eat them all for dinner and get hideously fat but omnomnom.

>>6510284
I'm not American.

My bottle of San Miguel is not American either and it has the proper decimal point system used in describing the ABV instead of a comma.

>>6510027
Two reasons:
- cheese doesn't freeze particularly well
- there is no incentive to make high quality versions of frozen convenience food. People going for convenience over quality have already made their choice of priorities. Those for whom quality is very important aren't buying convenience food anyways.

>>6510310
>cheese doesn't freeze particularly well
That depends on the cheese and in most cases it's just fine as long as it's cooked.

They aren't.

>>6510316
So good. Not as filling as Digiorno or Freschetta, but certainly top tier in terms of taste.

They're not so bad as long as you add some oregano leaves and more sauce before you bake them.

>>6510334
>more sauce on top of a frozen pizza
That just sounds outright silly.

>>6510257
That looks fucking awful.

not so on topic, but, is prepackaged tomato sauce acceptable when making pizza sauce?

>>6510351
As is? Not really. If you're drunk enough it'll do, but you really need to add more to it or make sauce yourself.

>>6510353
From real tomatoes? I tried, and it's always watery as fuck, full of tomato pieces and never tastes as good

>>6510357
Some basic canned sauces or pastes or ect.
You don't have to start with actual tomatoes. Try also using Google for some recipes and trying them out yourself to see if they have any merit.
Avoid that one bitch's stuff though.

>>6510357
>From real tomatoes? I tried, and it's always watery as fuck, full of tomato pieces and never tastes as good

you need to cook it and reduce the water out silly.

>>6510357
Always use canned tomatoes for sauce. Sauce from canned tomatoes is always better.

>>6510379
Last one looks like it was made by someone with a hangover.

>>6510387
the last one looks like the best tbh

>>6510407
Not really. The crust looks like it would break my teeth if I bit into it, the sauce looks uninteresting, the cheese is horribly placed, and the little green crap bombs the already awful appearance of the pizza itself.

>>6510387
>confirmed for having never eaten pizza
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>>6510412
the crust looks pretty good tbh. the sauce is just a magaritha, so what do you expect?
i admit that the basil looks pretty bad.
its not the best pizza i've seen or anything but it looks much better than the other too

>>6510419
I'd say the middle one is certainly the best looking of the three. And the crust does not look good to me at all.
There are other pictures of this type of pizza around, and they tend to have a better crust than the one shown.

>>6510422
the middle one is way to overloaded. you can see how all the toppings destroy the whole thing.
but then again I'm from europe so i'm more used too the kind on the bottom

>>6510275
>>no knife and fork or even slices for maximum fun
theres a fork on the box you autistic shitbag

>>6510425
>way too overloaded
Looks average to me. You want overloaded? Try looking at a few supreme or meatlover pizzas. I saw one where the layer of toppings was thicker than the pizza itself.

>>6510348
>unevenly rolled crust
you roll your pizza dough as opposed to stretching and spinning?
Pleb.

>>6510433
well for my standards its overloaed. it just doesnt look like a pizza to me, thats all.

>>6510441
>it just doesnt look like a pizza to me
Fairly weird standards you have, but whatever.

>>6510444
>fairly weird standards
in europe thats pretty much the normal standard.

>>6510446
Well one European telling me it's the norm for his area doesn't mean much to me, but it's somewhat interesting nonetheless.

>maggots in a tortilla
How the fuck is that a sandwhich, captcha?

>>6510027
Because you are not making your own and freezing them for later baking.

It's not frozen, but my friend found this in a supermarket a couple of months ago.

For my yank friends, popping candy is pop rocks.

>all these pretentious fuckwits who literally think eating tough, charred dough with a tiny amount of sauce smeared ontop is worth eating

>>6510457
There's a nearby store that sells similar things.
Used to be able to get a fuckhuge take and bake for about $10. In terms of taste it was worth every penny and more. Sadly they stopped selling those and replaced them with pretty good pizzas that just aren't the same.

>>6510461
better than your HFCS, sodium, GMO cheese and tomato bread you diabetic fuck.

>>6510461
How does it feel to live a in a world where everything is so black and white?

>>6510470
Firstly, there is no HFCS in the pizza.
And secondly, you basically mean
>enjoy your salt, cheese and bread.
Oh look, it's pizza!

>>6510275
do you always call knives and forks 18th century cutlery you fucking autist

>>6510522
The tomato sauce (which you failed to mention) contains HFCS.
Silly anon, Google Image search is your friend.

>>6510539
All I'm getting is certain brands of canned tomatoes containing it.

>>6510539
>google image search
Well, I don't know how looking at pictures is going to help, but you've already proven that you're a little bit stupid so I'll cut you some slack.

After searching all I can find are very particular brands that include corn syrup, most of it seems to be ketchups. Silly boy, I'm sure even you know that ketchup doesn't go on a pizza.

>>6510446
>living in shit-tier europe

Never tried freschetta spinach and mushroom? Fuck outta heaaahhh

>>6510550
Raging!

Is this thread a troll? Are there seriously people on the COOKING board of all places defending frozen pizza?

Am I taking crazy pills? Have I entered bizarro world /ck/, or were you people always like this?

>>6510578
What, fedora-tippers who get frozen food from mommy? Yeah. And a large quarter of us are alkies. Go figure

>>6510589
>fedora
Trilby anon, trilby.

These adverts insult my intelligence

Never would I look at this and say "wow is this from Mickey's" - fuck frozen pizza

>>6510533
I do when they look like they were found on the Mary Celeste.

>>6510627
The Marie Celeste incident happened in the 19th Century anon. 1872 to be precise.
Retard.

>>6510630
Yeah I know. Obviously I Googled it before posting, saw that it was a different century and posted it anyway to push your buttons.

I knew you would Google it and you did.

>>6510676
and there's me thinking you were just ignorantly shitposting........

>>6510251
fuck yeah

>>6510101
>Dr Oetker
>Great
If you're into sugary shit crust, sure.

>>6510027
I've stopped buying frozen pizzas and just get frozen lasagnas and frozen garlic bread. Satisfies the craving and is 1000x better.

>at aldi's
>had been craving pizza
>can't afford 20 bux for takeout
>get a small frozen pizza
>goat cheese and spinach and whatever, pretty artisan sounding
>enormously obese woman in a fatty scooter has like 20 fucking pizzas in her cart
>bottom of cart filled with crates of soda
>see nothing resembling a vegetable in her cart
>ask if the pizza here is good
>she delightedly tells me it's all excellent
>ask if this particular one was good
>says she never had it, doesn't know what goat cheese is
>buy it anyway because I devour the shit out of goat cheese
>go home, eat it
>meh

It was interesting but not worth the calories. Even at a restaurant I hardly ever find pizza I like.

>>6510251
>that photoshopped fork

why does it make me so angry

>>6511129
It's not photoshopped you can see the shadows and reflections

>>6511172
>this is your argument

Frozen pizzas aren't that good but I still find myself eating them constantly.

Seems like the healthier ones taste worse in my experience.

>>6511179
> from the guy sperging out over a fork

>>6510251
how lift whole slice so gingerly with fork prong hardly into it

>>6510316
there was a red baron i got a while ago i think it was the brick oven crust. But holy shit. It was unbelievably good. The crust was crispy and had ton of body to it. Not like the usual doughy "Rising crust".

These are fucking delicious I don't give a fuck what anyone says.

>>6511656
Confirmed, have one in the freezer right now.

>>6510207
This

What do you want on your Tombstone, /ck/?

>>6511685
"Loved pizza. Knew so little about pizza that frozen tasted great to him."

I know convenience is important to justify frozen pizza existence, but a simple order online or at a bulk grocery store of cheap pizza pans would allow a guy to pre-make his own frozen pizzas in build and over time save money and earn delciiousness.

>>6510033
me too

Are there Red Baron shills on this board or what?

Every frozen pizza thread, you see people saying how great they are. But they're fucking shit. I would sooner eat a Totino's.

>>6511249
Most likely the brick oven. The actual Red Baraon's rising crust is like trying to find a sober irishman or a mod on /ck/, or at least it is for me.

>>6510348

I want the unevenly whatever the fuck else it says

>>6511894
How does that work out? Do you precook it then freeze it?

>>6510461

>left pic
>all them "My grandma is Italian" Americas

>>6511656

>KEEP FROZEN
>COOK THOROUGHLY

That's difficult

>>6512401
They know their target audience.

>>6512401
Not that difficult.

>>6510027

The people who designed frozen pizzas are more interested in getting consistent results from a wide variety of equipment then good quality.

>>6510257
what the fuck is that?

>>6510207
As soon as I saw the thread I was going to say Jacks. I had the first one last week, it was actually really good. I loved the crispiness of it. Nothing compared to a real pizza but it was tasty at 4am.

>>6510027
Frozen pizzas are so shitty because of a thing called "cost / benefit analysis".

In fact it's not just pizza that suffers due to "cost / benefit analysis". The Ford motor company for example built a car that was just stuffed full of "cost / benefit analysis". They called it the Ford pinto. Pinto exploded almost on contact and quite a few people burned to death as a result. Going away via a car fire is one of the shittiest ways to peg out by the way. The ford motor company had a dilemma. They could either fix the cars and pay.millikns in the recall, or they could keep shut about it and pay off those vicims or their families as the crashes occurred. "Cost / benefit analysis" told them it would be cheaper to pay the claims than to recall all the faulty exploding cars.

In much the same way the frozen pizza company, which could actually make a decent pizza if it wanted to, listens to its own "cost / benefit analysis" and determine that no, you don't get 15 slices of pepperoni, you get 12. And jo they don't use olive oil, they use canola.

And so, your pizza sucks.

Pardon the typos, I'm using a phone.

>>6512561

Yeah well so if the pizzas were jews or something I don't know I shouldn't make that joke I'm German.

>>6512565
I hope you only hesitate because you live in Germany and literally don't have the freedom to legally be antisemetic.

>>6512579

I don't even know how that joke would've continued because I'm just drunk. Isn't my post already a joke I can't tell

>>6510606
not only that but they're also the worst frozen pizza too

>>6511244
stop eating like a noob; eat 1337

>>6510427
That doesn't count unless you take a pair of sharp scissors and cut it out. Then, and only if you actually use your free cardboard fork, is there a fork.

>>6510251

>not getting Penny brand pizza

>>6510676
The man is brilliant. Someone should save this thread, call it

"Portait of the Autist as a Young Man".

>>6510027

>in;b4 read the thread

You're supposed to cook it first, OP. It's not a frozen waffle for fuck's sake.

This pizza is genuinely 8-9/10

>>6512773
>Mushrooms
>Spinach
Not for me.

>>6510457

Pop rocks on a pizza! God Damn Europeans fuggin up our American cusine!

>>6512773

freschetta brick oven is easily the best frozen pizza out there