Date: October 18th, 2025 8:43 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
it just doesn't make sense how awful they all are, you can freeze real pizza dough and make a perfectly fine pizza with it, tomato sauce should literally just be tomatoes, there is no reason for it to suck, and cheese, like come on, you can't manage to put decent cheese on one?
Date: October 18th, 2025 8:53 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
name one, over the last year I have been hoodwinked a number of times buying various supposedly "fancy" frozen pizzas only to realize they are still just ketchup with a topping that doesn't taste like cheese
Date: October 18th, 2025 8:47 PM Author: sooty razzle coffee pot orchestra pit
need to cook the thing at extremely high heat on a conductive surface to get remotely decent crisp at home, and it needs to be pretty thin to begin with to get there. frozen pizza is a convenience item made for people tossing it in the toaster oven or microwave for a couple minutes. once you start putting in effort you might as well make something decent.
these products exist they are just a small share of the market because that is not the point of frozen pizza. people aren't buying pizza stones to cook their elios to perfection.
Date: October 18th, 2025 8:54 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
what product exists that isn't trash? I would buy it, my point is the convenience shouldn't preclude being decent, I could make an english muffin pizza with ragu sauce and store brand cheese and it would beat the frozen offerings
Date: October 18th, 2025 9:02 PM Author: sooty razzle coffee pot orchestra pit
"convenience shouldn't preclude being decent" in a vacuum sure but if you don't take care to get it crispy it will inevitably be shit, or at least you will have to acquiesce in appreciating it as a compromise frozen product. if you want "quality convenience" then don't get something that involves baking.
zuppardi's is a t5 new haven pizza place that ships frozen pizzas nationally since covid but for the price and hassle it defeats the purpose
Date: October 18th, 2025 9:04 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
I have no problem getting it crispy and preheating a stone, the issue is how fucking shit the ingedients and flavor are, and yeah getting a pizza shipped from new haven does defeat the purpose, why can't fucking digiorno just make something that isn't soaked in ketchup with cheese that doesn't taste like cheese is my question?
Date: August 4th, 2026 11:40 PM Author: Fucking Fuckface
Not true. You can use a pizza steel and broil it for 40 minutes to get it 550 to 600. Then crack the door just barely enough for the element to stay red hot for another 10 minutes it will really get up there if the rack is in the highest setting. I can cook homemade pizzas in 4 minutes flat this way, and it's better than most restaurants
Date: October 18th, 2025 9:17 PM Author: Marvelous stage foreskin
i really like imos and dogtown frozen pizzas. the cracker crust works well in a shitty home oven. but a lot of people hate st louis style even under the best of circumstances.
Date: October 18th, 2025 9:31 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
I don't live around italian trash where grabbing a slice is a thing, and I value the ability to just throw one on exactly when I'm hungry and not be at the mercy of retards who are going to bring me lukewarm pizza at best
Date: October 18th, 2025 9:51 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
how so? I could make a meat sauce, freeze it, and when I heated it back up it would be 180. I could do the same for dough. Frozen sweet corn is excellent. Lot's of things work great frozen
Date: October 18th, 2025 9:55 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
so you acknowledge that a great many food products can be frozen to no ill effect and among those are breads and sauces, the primary ingredients in pizza?
Date: October 18th, 2025 9:59 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
because I am inquiring as to why consumer products are purposefully bad when they don't need to be? Explain why no frozen pizza has a decent sauce. You could literally just freeze the sauce from any pizza place and it would be good, yet they insist on making it awful.
Date: October 18th, 2025 10:04 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
how would having a higher net worth make questions regarding why frozen pizza sucks less valid? I obviously understand that getting a full new york pie for 30 bucks would get me better pizza but it would take 45 minutes and I cannot eat all of that so it is wasteful in the instances where I am lazy and want pizza
Date: October 19th, 2025 1:47 AM Author: ponyboy curtis (If I May, tp)
He's not asking why good frozen pizza isn't available at Tombstone prices, but why good frozen pizza doesn't exist at all.
If I can buy a hot pizza from Pizza Hut for the price of a mediocre frozen California Pizza Kitchen pizza, I should be able to buy a decent frozen pizza for a few dollars more.
Date: October 19th, 2025 1:59 AM Author: coiffed whorehouse
finally, a non retard in the thread, this is precisely the question, why ought I not be able to purchase the equivalent of a pizza hut thin crust pizza frozen?
Date: October 18th, 2025 10:06 PM Author: lilac rough-skinned field crotch
It's hard to get the ingredients all back to the appropriate temperature from frozen. The bread touches the oven and cooks at a different rate than the sauce, versus the cheese which faces the heat element and needs to melt (rather than crisp up).
With that said, it's fine and you can actually get a decent vacuum sealed frozen neopolitan pizza from Roberta's or Table 87. You'll pay for it, but it's better than digiorno or whatever.
Date: October 18th, 2025 10:09 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
this is the part I disagree with, I have no issue with the cooking or the temps, you can get the crust crisped up nicely on plenty of them, but the sauce and cheese are almost inedible and I think they could literally just freeze a can tomato puree and some store brand mozzerlla and do better flavor wise, texture really isn't that far off
Date: October 19th, 2025 9:14 AM Author: lilac rough-skinned field crotch
Make dough in batches and freeze it in deli cups. You can thaw those by leaving them out 3-4 hours or putting in a warm water bath for an hour (which will be needed to warm your oven up to 550 anyway if it has a pizza stone in it.)
Date: October 19th, 2025 7:14 AM Author: Fucking Fuckface
Frozen: mama bosso pepperoni
Hack: you can buy pizzeria pizza and freeze it yourself (let it cool first, then wrap in freezer or parchment paper). It lasts for 6+ months and reheats from frozen to 90% as good as fresh
Date: October 19th, 2025 7:38 AM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
costco motor city detriot style and french bread pizzas are quite goods frozen. as zarathustra explained a frozen traditional thin crust is difficult, but thick crust styles turn out ok
Date: October 19th, 2025 9:00 AM Author: exciting slap-happy double fault
The customer base is 100% people who can’t get their shit together sufficiently to order Dominos. Why would the product be good?
The correct answer is to plan 1 hour ahead and order a pizza when you want one. You can reheat pizza if delivery guy is slow or you have no one to help you eat it.
Date: October 19th, 2025 2:48 PM Author: Aphrodisiac mahogany goal in life
Frozen pizza is fine if you’re going into the experience with the understand that what you’re eating isn’t pizza. It’s something else entirely and not bad in the right circumstances.
Date: October 19th, 2025 5:49 PM Author: tan naked stag film bbw
Digiorno etc aren't even that bad.
Anyway some of it is because of You. You have to know exactly how long to cook it and potentially when to turn/rotate it. Using a non-pizza-oven is already going to give you a questionable outcome no matter how good the dough is.
Date: October 19th, 2025 6:10 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
and not a single one of them even attempted to answer the OP, they just flapped their arms and shouted "of course frozen pizza is bad" without any critical thought as to why that must be the case
Date: August 4th, 2026 11:11 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
update, just tried a di fara frozen pizza and I think these wops have cracked it, the crust was legitimately pretty good and the sauce and cheese tasted normal, finally someone listened
Date: August 4th, 2026 11:32 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
it was 8 dollars on sale because it appears to be new to my area, but marked at only 9 full price, that's like a 2 dollar premium on a digiorno and I don't have to throw most of it away, I'm calling this a win for the kid
Date: August 4th, 2026 11:44 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
and this seems unnecessary, the di fara people seem to have heard my pleas and decided to make some money, the American impulse to make everything cheaper and bigger no matter how much it sucks is a cultural disease that must be wiped out
Pizza is also unusually difficult to preserve with the moisture in the sauce, cheese and crust all having to survive freezing then cooking. But this is still secondary to the main issue of companies just selling cheap slop that wouldn't be good even if it were never frozen
Date: August 4th, 2026 11:57 PM Author: coiffed whorehouse
See I disagree with the first point, fully agree with the second. Texturally plenty of shit frozen pizzas are good enough, I'm not expecting miracles here, but the absolute slop they make them with is unacceptable