Frozen Detroit-Style Pizza
Jan. 22nd, 2022 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerAs I've gotten back to cooking meals at home for the most part over the past month I've found that I rarely have the energy to make anything fancy. Oh, I do enjoy classing up simple meals like boxed mac & cheese to make them way better than merely heating up what's in the box. Sometimes, though, I do cook a meal straight out of the box. I've done that a few times this month with frozen pizza.
"Frozen pizza?!?!" you might gasp. "Aren't you, like, a pizza snob?" Well, no, I'm not a snob. I do enjoy good pizza; but I know I can't always get it. I'll take the best I can get. And there are a few brands of frozen pizza I've found worth buying. None of them, BTW, are the usual supermarket fare of Tombstone, Red Baron, et. al.
One frozen pizza I've bought a few times now is this Detroit-style deep dish, from Costco. Coscto's the only place I've seen it. I grabbed it the first time because I was like, "Ooh! Detroit style pizza, that's different."
Detroit style pizza is typically made with the cheese on the crust, then the toppings, and finally sauce poured in "racing stripes" atop the cheese and other toppings. I say typically because I've seen some Detroit pizzas made with the sauce under the cheese, New York style. This one's made that way.
I was a little disappointed that the pie came out of the box with its toppings all stacked up to one side. That made me wonder if it had thawed slightly and refrozen as it passed through the supply chain. The picture above shows the pie after I'd shaken it to spread the toppings out a bit better.
Once I opened the plastic wrap I arranged the toppings neatly atop the pie before baking. How did it turn out?
Well, it looks good for a frozen pizza. Food appearance is important to me because I taste with my eyes before my tongue.
Taste-wise it's... okay. The crust doesn't quite hit that "light and airy" consistency. That's enormously hard to do with a frozen product so I don't fault them there. The toppings were generous. The sauce was... too acidic? This pizza frankly could've been a lot better with a better tasting sauce.
Would I buy it again? Well... I've bought it a few times already, though the last time before this week was over a year ago. It's fine for when I don't feel like driving out to a good local pizzeria to pick up a fresh pie. Mostly I decided to try this brand again because the meat-combo variety (pepperoni, sausage, bacon) was one I hadn't seen before. I'll finish the second pie that came in the box; then it's back to local takeout.
"Frozen pizza?!?!" you might gasp. "Aren't you, like, a pizza snob?" Well, no, I'm not a snob. I do enjoy good pizza; but I know I can't always get it. I'll take the best I can get. And there are a few brands of frozen pizza I've found worth buying. None of them, BTW, are the usual supermarket fare of Tombstone, Red Baron, et. al.
One frozen pizza I've bought a few times now is this Detroit-style deep dish, from Costco. Coscto's the only place I've seen it. I grabbed it the first time because I was like, "Ooh! Detroit style pizza, that's different."
Detroit Style Pizza
Detroit style pizza starts with a light but airy crust cooked in a metal pan. Lore has it that the pans were metal tool trays factory workers took home with them. The frozen pies didn't come with a metal tray but rather heavy card stock.Detroit style pizza is typically made with the cheese on the crust, then the toppings, and finally sauce poured in "racing stripes" atop the cheese and other toppings. I say typically because I've seen some Detroit pizzas made with the sauce under the cheese, New York style. This one's made that way.
I was a little disappointed that the pie came out of the box with its toppings all stacked up to one side. That made me wonder if it had thawed slightly and refrozen as it passed through the supply chain. The picture above shows the pie after I'd shaken it to spread the toppings out a bit better.
Once I opened the plastic wrap I arranged the toppings neatly atop the pie before baking. How did it turn out?
Well, it looks good for a frozen pizza. Food appearance is important to me because I taste with my eyes before my tongue.
Taste-wise it's... okay. The crust doesn't quite hit that "light and airy" consistency. That's enormously hard to do with a frozen product so I don't fault them there. The toppings were generous. The sauce was... too acidic? This pizza frankly could've been a lot better with a better tasting sauce.
Would I buy it again? Well... I've bought it a few times already, though the last time before this week was over a year ago. It's fine for when I don't feel like driving out to a good local pizzeria to pick up a fresh pie. Mostly I decided to try this brand again because the meat-combo variety (pepperoni, sausage, bacon) was one I hadn't seen before. I'll finish the second pie that came in the box; then it's back to local takeout.
