Frozen Pizzas You Should Leave On The Store Shelves
NEWS
By ALEX SPRINGER
Newman's Own
Newman's Own frozen pizza has quite a few issues. The cheese is sprinkled haphazardly, leaving gaps of sauce, which is an anomaly regardless of the pizza's quality.
The cheese distribution doesn't change much out of the oven, leaving slices of cheeseless pizza. The flavors are bland, the textures gluey, and the crust has a saltine composition.
Home Run Inn's frozen pizza may look decent on the outside, but there are a lot of problems once it's out of the oven. The biggest offender on the list is the crust.
There seems to be an unwelcome deposit of sour, seemingly uncooked dough beneath the surface. The cheese and pepperoni on it are also quite bland on textural and flavor level.
Bettergoods frozen pizzas have a decent crust, but it's ruined by the ingredients on top of the pizza. First, the soppressata has an overbearing cadence to its flavors.
The bacon is also rubbery and aggressively seasoned. Moreover, the cheese is too muted to do anything in the face of these two proteins, and the sauce gets lost in the shuffle.
Out of the oven, Good & Gather pizza is a bit underwhelming even for a store's private label brand. The pizza is saturated in a watery sauce that wrecks the whole pie.
Walmart private label brand, Great Value, offers a rising crust pizza that falls a bit flat. First, the pie's circumference is perfectly round, which isn't a good look.
The crust does indeed rise, but it never quite escapes the raw dough texture that can occur with the rising crust variety. Not even a few rounds in the oven can save the texture.