Totinos, the Ramen of frozen pizza. I loved the 10 for 10 dollars sell when I was in college. I doubt there's anything real in those things.
schmellba99 said:Soo....it takes your oven over an hour to heat up? May want to check your oven, cause that's not normal. I think mine heats to 400 or 450 in about 10 minutes, another 10 or so to bake a frozen pizza.SACR said:When I realized it takes me so little time to make dough, and just as much time to heat up the oven to bake a frozen pizza or a homemade one is when I stopped buying frozen pizzas.bam02 said:SACR said:
Honestly, why not just make some dough and make your own pizza?
If you have a stand mixer, it takes ten minutes to put the ingredients together and mix them, an hour to let it rise. You can then shape it, add toppings, and toss it in the oven, or put it in fridge and let it cold ferment for a few days.
Either way, better and cheaper than frozen pizza.
I believe you answered your own question.
Add in the fact that you can use extra pizza dough to make calzones, stromboli, or pepperoni rolls, and it's no contest.
Plus I don't usually keep pepperoni, marinara sauce, etc. on hand at all times. Maybe I'm an outlier in that respect though.
20 mins and I'm eating - you are still waiting on the dough to rise. Yeah, doesn't seem like you are really comparing apples to apples here.
/facepalmSACR said:schmellba99 said:Soo....it takes your oven over an hour to heat up? May want to check your oven, cause that's not normal. I think mine heats to 400 or 450 in about 10 minutes, another 10 or so to bake a frozen pizza.SACR said:When I realized it takes me so little time to make dough, and just as much time to heat up the oven to bake a frozen pizza or a homemade one is when I stopped buying frozen pizzas.bam02 said:SACR said:
Honestly, why not just make some dough and make your own pizza?
If you have a stand mixer, it takes ten minutes to put the ingredients together and mix them, an hour to let it rise. You can then shape it, add toppings, and toss it in the oven, or put it in fridge and let it cold ferment for a few days.
Either way, better and cheaper than frozen pizza.
I believe you answered your own question.
Add in the fact that you can use extra pizza dough to make calzones, stromboli, or pepperoni rolls, and it's no contest.
Plus I don't usually keep pepperoni, marinara sauce, etc. on hand at all times. Maybe I'm an outlier in that respect though.
20 mins and I'm eating - you are still waiting on the dough to rise. Yeah, doesn't seem like you are really comparing apples to apples here.
It takes less than 10 minutes to heat an oven to 550, so not sure where you get the hour timeline.
The only waiting you would do when making one from scratch is waiting on the dough to rise, but this isn't an issue if you make dough once a week and let it rest in the fridge for cold fermentation.
It takes less than 2 minutes to open a can of tomatoes and blend them with some garlic, basil, salt and pepper,which yields more than enough sauce to make several pizzas. Do you not keep canned tomatoes in your house?
There is no requirement that every pizza be pepperoni, you can use sausage or peppers or onions or bacon or chicken or any other topping.
RK said:
many of you may not be aware of this, but SACR is never incorrect on anything.
I wouldn't put anchovies or capers or escarole on a pizza, but there are several people who love that. Escarole pizza with anchovies, capers, olives, and garlic is a traditional dish in Campania.schmellba99 said:
And i am hit and miss on canned tomatoes, and anybody that puts fuggin chicken or other crap that doesnt belong on a pizza on a pizza is a twinkle toed communist.
Judging someone else on the internet for their pizza toppings takes about as much time as it does to make my own pizza dough, sauce, preheat my oven, and cook a homemade pizza.SACR said:I wouldn't put anchovies or capers or escarole on a pizza, but there are several people who love that. Escarole pizza with anchovies, capers, olives, and garlic is a traditional dish in Campania.schmellba99 said:
And i am hit and miss on canned tomatoes, and anybody that puts fuggin chicken or other crap that doesnt belong on a pizza on a pizza is a twinkle toed communist.
The idea that choosing to put one topping over another on a pizza makes someone a communist is laughable.
SACR said:
It takes less than 10 minutes to heat an oven to 550, so not sure where you get the hour timeline.
The only waiting you would do when making one from scratch is waiting on the dough to rise, but this isn't an issue if you make dough once a week and let it rest in the fridge for cold fermentation.
It takes less than 2 minutes to open a can of tomatoes and blend them with some garlic, basil, salt and pepper,which yields more than enough sauce to make several pizzas. Do you not keep canned tomatoes in your house?
There is no requirement that every pizza be pepperoni, you can use sausage or peppers or onions or bacon or chicken or any other topping.
jeffdjohnson said:
My favorite frozen pizza is when I make the dough (00 flour of course) and let it cold-ferment for 3 days, then go to the garden and mill the tomatoes hand picked at the end of Summer, then take the handmade cheese (milk from the Buffalo that I keep next to the pool), some fresh clipped Basil and start my wood fired imported, outdoor Italian brick oven. Should only take a few hours to get to 900F. These Neapolitan pizzas only take 90 seconds, which is much faster than a Totinos.
Exactly what a commie would say.SACR said:I wouldn't put anchovies or capers or escarole on a pizza, but there are several people who love that. Escarole pizza with anchovies, capers, olives, and garlic is a traditional dish in Campania.schmellba99 said:
And i am hit and miss on canned tomatoes, and anybody that puts fuggin chicken or other crap that doesnt belong on a pizza on a pizza is a twinkle toed communist.
The idea that choosing to put one topping over another on a pizza makes someone a communist is laughable.
Love the pizza on a box. When I was young and full of energy I would shred a mix of pepper jack and Colby, now I just buy a bag of Mexican mix.investorAg83 said:
Anybody else a fan of the chef boyardee pizza in a box?? That sauce is amazing.
Frozen though, the kirklands pizza from Costco is hard to beat.
Lucky Jack Aubrey said:
bam02 said:jeffdjohnson said:
My favorite frozen pizza is when I make the dough (00 flour of course) and let it cold-ferment for 3 days, then go to the garden and mill the tomatoes hand picked at the end of Summer, then take the handmade cheese (milk from the Buffalo that I keep next to the pool), some fresh clipped Basil and start my wood fired imported, outdoor Italian brick oven. Should only take a few hours to get to 900F. These Neapolitan pizzas only take 90 seconds, which is much faster than a Totinos.