[Frozen Pizza] Best frozen pizza?

[Chakravartin]

3d wrote:
How about ordering some pizza from a pizzeria you like, wrapping it in tin foil and freezing it?

When you freeze and re-heat pizza, the flavors change dramatically and thawing/reheating changes the texture of the crust.

Even starting out with the best pizza in the world,* you'll end up with something mediocre at best at the end so you might as well just buy something mediocre to begin with if you're gonna freeze it.




*I've had the best pizza in the world. And I've tried freezing it.

[haikuman]

It depends on how much you drink before you eat the Pizza.....:devil: :priate:

[Grace62]

Chakravartin wrote:

When you freeze and re-heat pizza, the flavors change dramatically and thawing/reheating changes the texture of the crust.

Even starting out with the best pizza in the world,* you'll end up with something mediocre at best at the end so you might as well just buy something mediocre to begin with if you're gonna freeze it.


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Yes I agree with this. That's why Amy's I think is particularly good frozen pizza, they use a corn meal crust that freezes and reheats much better than other types of crust.

[Stephanie]

Grace62 wrote:
Trader Jo's or Amy's.

http://www.amys.com/products/product-categories/pizzas

Never tried Amy's but I love Trader Joe's frozen pizzas. I think it really depends on what type of pizza you're looking for. I'm not a fan of things like DiGiorno (too much crust).

The thing I like about Trader Joe's pizzas is that many of them are wood-fired. They're the closest I've found to restaurant quality. Their Pizza Margherita is one of the ones I tend to really like.

[Grace62]

Yep, TJ margherita is my favorite too! Can't beat the price either.

I like the thin, crispy crust, very authentic.

[mrbigstuff]

to counter the argument that one cannot reheat a regular pizza, I have had decent luck with the method of wrapping in aluminum foil (a must) and then reheating in the toaster oven. if you let the pizza breathe in the freezer, you can avoid turning it to "mush." it helps if the pizza is not very well done to begin with.

[Mac1337]

Frozen pizzas are about the same price as fresh ones. Sometimes even more.

[RgrF]

Spock wrote:
DiGiorno is OK.

The local 99¢ store was recently selling DiGiorno full size pizzas for, you guessed it - a buck.

Bought two dozen to contribute to the kids coming malnutrition problem. They're better than Micky Dees but not by a lot.

[RgrF]

mrbigstuff wrote:
to counter the argument that one cannot reheat a regular pizza, I have had decent luck with the method of wrapping in aluminum foil (a must) and then reheating in the toaster oven. if you let the pizza breathe in the freezer, you can avoid turning it to "mush." it helps if the pizza is not very well done to begin with.

Pizza's here in California are seldom well done. Out here they think Wolfgang knows pizza - he doesn't.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Do you have a radiation detector in case your pizza has a meltdown?



The best ready made pizza (not frozen) in the NorCal area used to be Papa Murphys. For frozen name brand in a chain store, look for the one with the least number of ingredients that are hard to pronounce or you have never ever thought of buying for your kitchen.