Red Baron French Bread Pizzas (and other Red Baron pizzas)

[norseamd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0i5_eTofqU

 

[dave_the_nerd]

You know I sometimes make cheap pizza by toasting a slice of bread and microwaving it with some sauce, cheese, and toppings but it usually never works out very well especially very recently.

Gets soggy - the trick with pizza in general is to use a lot less sauce than you think you need.

Works pretty well with flatbread.

 

[IronWing]

Gets soggy - the trick with pizza in general is to use a lot less sauce than you think you need.

Works pretty well with flatbread.

Put a layer of sliced cheese between crust and sauce, no more soggy crust.

 

[Belegost]

Why not just stop at the grocery store, pick up a fresh baked loaf of French bread (aren't they usually about $1.50?), a can of pizza sauce, some mozzarella, and some pepperoni. Cut the bread up, mix sauce with some spices (I add basil, oregano, pepper, parsley, and garlic), add the mozz and pepperoni, and bake. Since it makes more than enough for a meal, after putting the others together, place them in the freezer. I'm guessing 2 loaves of bread ought to be about right for 1 can of sauce (so you don't have any waste), and in the end, it'll work out to about the same price or less than crappy frozen food.

Make it easy mode - get a big can of sauce, and put it in an old ketchup bottle in the fridge. Buy a big bag of shredded cheese, and split it into individual small ziplocs and freeze them, same with pepperoni, buy a big one, slice it, and freeze it in single serving size bags.

Then just pickup fresh french bread, squirt sauce on it, dump a bag of cheese straight from the freezer, and a toss the pepperoni on. Then it's a quick trip in a 350 deg oven. The best part is that by starting with frozen cheese, the cheese doesn't melt to fast leaving a soggy bread.

 

[ElFenix]

Why not just stop at the grocery store, pick up a fresh baked loaf of French bread (aren't they usually about $1.50?), a can of pizza sauce, some mozzarella, and some pepperoni. Cut the bread up, mix sauce with some spices (I add basil, oregano, pepper, parsley, and garlic), add the mozz and pepperoni, and bake. Since it makes more than enough for a meal, after putting the others together, place them in the freezer. I'm guessing 2 loaves of bread ought to be about right for 1 can of sauce (so you don't have any waste), and in the end, it'll work out to about the same price or less than crappy frozen food.

it's not quite that simple, explains serious eats:
http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2013/03/the-pizza-lab-the-best-french-bread-pizza.html

 

[WelshBloke]

You know I sometimes make cheap pizza by toasting a slice of bread and microwaving it with some sauce, cheese, and toppings but it usually never works out very well especially very recently.

Really? That doesnt turn out well?

Shocked I am. Totally shocked. :|

 

[WelshBloke]

Make it easy mode - get a big can of sauce, and put it in an old ketchup bottle in the fridge. Buy a big bag of shredded cheese, and split it into individual small ziplocs and freeze them, same with pepperoni, buy a big one, slice it, and freeze it in single serving size bags.

Then just pickup fresh french bread, squirt sauce on it, dump a bag of cheese straight from the freezer, and a toss the pepperoni on. Then it's a quick trip in a 350 deg oven. The best part is that by starting with frozen cheese, the cheese doesn't melt to fast leaving a soggy bread.

:awe:

 

[CPA]

my kids like them.

 

[z1ggy]

Why do you need to buy cheap ass food when you'll now be making $100k? Live it up playboy.

 

[holden j caufield]

tried my first digiorno frozen pizza last week. Thought the cheese crust pizza was pretty good.

 

[Linux23]

it's not quite that simple, explains serious eats:
http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2013/03/the-pizza-lab-the-best-french-bread-pizza.html

That, that blew my mind.

 

[Nebor]

Why do you need to buy cheap ass food when you'll now be making $100k? Live it up playboy.

I've made over $100k for years and I still eat absolute garbage. El Monterrey Frozen Burritos & Taquitos, frozen pizzas, bagel bites, canned chili, Taco Bell, etc.

 

[bradly1101]

Charging more for less is a popular way to please the shareholders, not consumers.

 

[OverVolt]

Trans fat. Ur going to die. No wonder your brain is fried.

 

[OverVolt]

Effort, that's why.

We live in EASY, NOW society. Who would want to do all that stuff?



PS. There is no better/cheaper pizza than the one I make myself!

http://www.uhc.com/bmtn-categories/...ss-grocery-store-spending-for-first-time-ever

It’s a milestone in the history of American eating: This January, for the first time ever, Americans spent more in restaurants and bars than they did in grocery stores..

 

[norseamd]

It’s a milestone in the history of American eating: This January, for the first time ever, Americans spent more in restaurants and bars than they did in grocery stores..

You know normally I would call bullshit but nothing is logical anymore.

 

[Ns1]

it's not quite that simple, explains serious eats:
http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2013/03/the-pizza-lab-the-best-french-bread-pizza.html

well I know what I'm gonna be making soon...

 

[bradley]

It’s a milestone in the history of American eating: This January, for the first time ever, Americans spent more in restaurants and bars than they did in grocery stores..

Makes sense. I see many more people complaining of kidney and gallstones at younger ages. They are skinny yet holding excess fat with metabolic disorders.

When there's no time for homemade pizza, my favorite French bread pizza:

Stouffer's (very good)
http://www.stouffers.com/products.aspx?c=41

My favorite overall pizza:

Oetker Ristorante (excellent)
http://www.oetker.us/us-en/our-products/ristorante/overview.html

Digiorno Pizzeria (good)
http://www.digiorno.com/products/digiorno-pizzeria

 

[Sonikku]

I used to eat Red Baron's Pizza. Then I starting shopping at Aldi's. This is the holy grail of frozen pizza,

For $2 the value of Mama Cozzi is just unbelievable. My biggest surprise is they use real cheese at that price point. But certainly even from a taste perspective they reign over Barion, Dijorno, Totinos, Tony's, pretty much every other pizza chain I've tried. Naturally they have other varieties and higher end ones, going up to the high scale $6 home deli refrigerated variants. Only problem is I can't seem to find them anywhere but Aldi's which is sometimes inconvenient.

 

[BUTCH1]

Red Baron is food. It will provide some kind of sustenance, if required.

Past that, there is nothing notable about their stuff. Store brand is no worse, and there's a lot that's much better.

This is ATOT, though; anything frozen is for fat and/or poor people.

Some of the Marie Calander pot pies are decent and are rather meaty but the salt content is off the charts. As for frozen pizza, why bother when Domino's will sell you a large 3-top for $7.99 mon-thursday, not exactly the best pizza you can get but for the price it's hard to beat and way better than any frozen pie.

 

[norseamd]

and way better than any frozen pie.

 

[BUTCH1]

I have yet to taste a frozen pizza crust that didn't eat like Styrofoam.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Costco. Take and bake for $8 or get it precooked at the cafeteria counter for $10.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Last night I had a Red Baron Brick Oven Crust pizza (pepperoni). I hate to admit it, but it was actually kinda good.

I'm not a frozen pizza guy. At all. This is probably only the second frozen pizza I've eaten in the last five years. Usually, though, the problem I have with frozen pizzas is the crust. Typically, they just dry out and become this overly crunchy, stiff tasteless crap. But this was different ... The very bottom was nicely cooked and "crusty", but it still has some softness to it. Like a decent thin-crust pizza from a pizza joint.

Good sauce, adequate cheese, tasty and sufficiently greasy pepperoni. Not bad at all. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[mrblotto]

I used to eat Red Baron's Pizza. Then I starting shopping at Aldi's. This is the holy grail of frozen pizza,

For $2 the value of Mama Cozzi is just unbelievable. My biggest surprise is they use real cheese at that price point. But certainly even from a taste perspective they reign over Barion, Dijorno, Totinos, Tony's, pretty much every other pizza chain I've tried. Naturally they have other varieties and higher end ones, going up to the high scale $6 home deli refrigerated variants. Only problem is I can't seem to find them anywhere but Aldi's which is sometimes inconvenient.

Another vote for Mama Cozzi. I get the pepperoni ones and toss on some chopped onion and banana peppers....om nom nom nom!

And yeah, I can't find them anywhere else either....go figure

Edit: that pic just made me chuckle a bit.

".....Let's get this frozen pizza...and........and......uhhhh.....hey, lets put it on this purple fabric!"

My apologies Sonikku if you took the pic. Just made me lol a little bit