RED BARON - BRICK OVEN - PEPPERONI & JALEPENO
Let me start by saying I HATE RED BARON
I only purchased this because some people in this sub have claimed the brick oven style to be particularly good, and I figured sure brick oven is usually akin to a higher standard so I'll give it a shot, despite finding all previous red baron pizzas I have purchased to be unfinishable.
I cooked this per instructions, except that I put it in slightly early before the oven was preheated, and at the end did 2 minutes of broil on high because of the extra toppings I put on from our diy pizza night a few days prior. So if anything the extra pepperoni and peppers I put on made it better...
Okay now the REVIEW!
Pizza was in fact better than other red barons I have had... slightly. Im having trouble putting it into words but the bread and sauce and cheese still feel particularly frozen pizza-ey. The dough is always a dead giveaway on a bad frozen pizza, however the dough on this wasn't quite as bad as I remember other red baron pizzas, but marginally, just enough that I'm able to not be slightly repulsed by the pizza. So with that said this pizza has made it slightly over the edible line and landed ittself a firm 5/10 overall
It was also apparent that the cheese and peppers were not of good quality either. And the crust got really crunchy around the edges like a jacks pizza does, but its much thicker than a jacks so its not pleasant.
My wife specifically notes the cheese taste not so great, like frozen cheese.
The extra toppings I put on may have carried the pizza a bit. Hard to say for certain. It may have been a lot more bland without those extra flavors on there, possibly could have taken it into bad territory.
With that said though, the standout feature of this pizza was the price of $3.50 on sale. Red baron frequently goes on sale for dirt cheap which is why ive gotten them so often in the past and been disappointed. But considering this pizza is actually kind of edible, for $3.50 its hard to go wrong. Feeds 1 to 2 people.
Would buy again for the same sale price.
