Clean Eatz Bacon Cheeseburger
Hello everyone. I want to do a quick review on this frozen pizza my dad had. I'm visiting him and he said I could help myself to the food he has, so I eventually decided on this frozen pizza. It is from a meal prep/frozen dinner service that caters to people who want decent frozen meals delivered to their home. This is not an advertisement. I have ordered from them also, and everything they have is okay, good, or not good. This was my first time with a frozen pizza from them. It's just a specialty pizza and I wanted to describe how I came upon it because it was pretty good.
First thing is that the pizza is small. It's about a slice and a half of regular pizza. Which makes sense because the meal service is for people who are calorie conscious, which I am not used to. A regular sized frozen pizza from any grocery store is a serving for me. But I would like to get beyond the small pizza and focus on the taste, texture, and overall flavor.
I cooked the pizza at 400F degrees for ~12 minutes, with the convection fans on, in a full sized oven, using a preheated pizza stone. I removed the pizza from the oven based on appearance of doneness. I like my pizza medium or medium well.
The cooked appearance from the top view was really nice. Crust looking browned, cheese melted, toppings cooked. Very appealing but I don't find it difficult to make a pizza look appealing. Some pizzas don't achieve this however, so it was nice to have a visual appeal.
I sliced the pizza on the pizza stone using a pizza cutter. The edge crust was crisp and cracked nicely. Slicing into the pizza made me apprehensive because the middle was soft and felt undercooked. The pizza itself was limp in the middle. I took a slice, held it up to see the strength of the crust, and began to consume it.
The flavor and texture is absolutely great. This was a bacon cheeseburger pizza and the bacon, ground beef, BBQ sauce, cheese came through really nicely. A bit basic but everything did its job. There were plenty of toppings also. Not overwhelming but enough to show the purpose. Some pizzas are like a topping dump, some act like there is a topping embargo. This pizza had the right amount. As so far as sauce is concerned it was light but effective. I'm a sauce man and felt the pizza was lacking sauce, but could recognize it from that point and understand not everyone loved a lot of sauce. It was an effective bbq sauce that was light and flavorful with both sweetness and spices. It had a nice ratio. I could taste it all: cheese and sauce, toppings. It wasn't a slurry or stuff.
Man, let me discuss the crust briefly because crust is very important with pizza. I don't know if crust is the most important but it is extremely important. A bad crust can fail an otherwise great pizza. The crust on this pizza was really great. I'm not into cauliflower crusts and probably haven't had a pizza made with one before this. It had some complexity to it because the outer area of the crust was crispy while the middle was soft and had a chew to it. Now I know that a little chew and softness to a crust is traditionally bad or unpopular. If the whole crust of this pizza was chewy and soft like the middle it would make this pizza a failure on all fronts. Nothing could redeem it. However the crust was very crisp on the outer ring and it combined with the inner chew from the middle. You can check out the picture and see how shoddy the middle looks but the cracker crisp outside was amazing and worked well with the middle part. The outside crust was crisp. Crisp.
I had to look it up online and these pizzas are 6.99 USD each. That's expensive. I didn't pay for it and there are two more which I am absolutely going to demolish. I will look forward to it. Literally going to be drinking beer and fantasizing about the pizza.
This was overall a great pizza that had purpose serving ingredients with participating flavors. The sauce was light but set it off. The bacon was bacony, the cheese was melty, the sauce was like a very light spicy bbq sauce. The ground beef seemed generic but it went great with the sauce combo. A very nice experience, though simple, it all worked out.
I guess the are more of a specialty pizza as they are not sold in stores. I know about them from the meal delivery company, which is okay. Maybe the pizza is just okay and because I had a few beers and was hungry the pizza seemed better than usual, or maybe it is a great frozen pizza. Right now I think it is a combination of both. This is a pretty good pizza. For free I will demolish these and look forward to it. The price of 6.99 for basically a slice and a half of pizza is a bit much for me personally. A full sized one of these would be like 15 USD or something if someone did the math.