Sometimes I think about getting pizza hut, then I remember it costs 36$ for 2 pizzas, so I just go to the store for two 6$ pizzas
Pfft, I always buy a frozen pizza specifically because I already know I'm not gonna feel like cooking after grocery shopping because it sucks. I don't even pretend anymore. All that fresh food is for another day.
I specifically buy easy dinner stuff while.im out shopping for the same reason. I spent an hour getting food so now imma take it easy and eat this mac and chicken strips from the deli.
I'm curious how your shopping trips look like to be called exhausting, i just bike to the store, scan the products, stuff them in my backpack, pay, and bike home. Takes 15 minutes tops if i don't leisurely walk around looking at the shelves.
As a family that tries to cook as many of our meals as possible and generally visits the store once a week, it can be a big endeavor. To make balanced, healthy meals for the whole week requires a large variety of ingredients. This makes meal planning before the trip and having a list necessary, and then there’s a lot of searching for things that may not always be in stock.
Additionally, we often restock household necessities and toiletries on this trip as well, which requires more planning and a longer list. Add all this together with carrying all the bags, putting things away, etc, and it can be pretty exhausting.
I've been on both sides and they're both true. Biking in to get ingredients for one meal is quick. Taking a car to gather a week's supplies (I still have to go back for something later) is a bigger endeavor.
I try to time it with my work schedule, which changes a lot. Old people block aisles and chat from 10 to 12. It's deathly busy from 3 to 5.
I'm not the person you replied to, but when I go grocery shopping I usually buy ~$200 worth of groceries and expend a bunch of energy hauling them all up 3 flights of stairs to my place which can be tiring, plus traffic to/from the store, plus putting them all away, clearing space in the fridge, etc.
I'd guess it's a combination of the physical and mental tolls of grocery shopping.
Like the last day it looks like it can still be usable before you're forced to "throw away money".
The trick is to buy 10 of them, then cook two right away and you have enough to eat for two more days
I'm gonna share a really closely held secret right now:
If you cook 3, you have enough for 3 days!
Sadly frozen pizza tends to not have good crusts. The only exception I've found was interestingly enough the cheapest of pizzas, the Totinos Party Pizzas.
Tombstone has a good, crispy thin crust similar to those party pizzas. Unfortunately the toppings aren't really better than those.
Anyone else prefer a frozen pizza over delivery? Like, taste wise? Like it's better than dominoes or pizza hut.
Local pizza places are usually both cheaper and better than chains, at least in every neighborhood I've lived in. I think they are better than frozen pizzas, but also about 2x the cost. Both vary from place to place though.
Aldi's pizzas are my go-to for value. Usually around $6 a pop now (they were $3.29 pre-pandemic). I add extra cheese and toppings to remind myself I've made it in life.
you know sometimes i forget that pizza chains exist in other countries, here in sweden (and i think generally the nordics) they simply are not a thing because middle eastern immigrants have outcompeted them from the start.
From a blogpost i found there are aparently some 70-ish pizzerias per person in NYC, whereas there are 400+ per person in sweden. It's literally more likely to find a pizzeria in a small village than it is to find a grocery store, and theyr are ALL staffed by people from turkey/syria who are very likely to be family or at least know of each other. They also always serve other stuff like kebab or schnitzel.
It's honestly such a fascinating phenomenon and i'm sad the rest of the world doesn't effectively have pizza as a human right.
we have kotipizza in finland. it's shit. but it's kinda allright sometimes. I always go to the little places. I even formed a sort of relationahip with one place because I used to go there so often I didn't have to order to get just what I wanted. those little chain free places are special
From a blogpost i found there are aparently some 70-ish pizzerias per person in NYC, whereas there are 400+ per person in sweden
There are more pizzerias than people? Or is it 70 people to each pizzeria in NYC and 400 people to each in Sweden? Or like 70 pizzerias to 1000 people?
If you find your brand preference then it’s just better in my opinion
YES God yes. Sometimes I specifically crave frozen pizza and no delivery pizza or restaurant pizza would fulfill the desire. It can be the other way around, too, I might crave delivery or restaurant pizza. But mostly, if I want pizza, I want the frozen stuff. It's good. It doesn't overdo the cheese/fat or toppings, the size is better, it is more predictable, the crust is must better. There's just something about frozen pizza. 9 out of 10 times I prefer it.
A great trick for delivery/carry out is to heat up and lightly butter a skillet and place your slices in there on medium heat for like 3 to 5 minutes. It makes the crust crispy and the taste like twice as good compared to lukewarm soggy crust.
Thank you for the tip, but tbh I don't want the big crust to be that crispy, then it is just a big dry piece of bread squeaking on my teeth. A soft crust I could kind of swallow but ugh just crust in itself is awful. Usually around here the crust is rather crispy to begin with. I just end up not eating it most of the time.
At least most frozen ones Ive tried are usually terrible. Bready crust and lacking in toppings with a flavorless sauce.
But Ill usually do carry out over delivery.
Everyone in these comments needs Jesus lol. Frozen pizza sucks ass, and we only eat it because it's convenient. It's not even cheaper than take out anymore with inflation. I can get a 3 topping large carry out from Dominos for like $7-8 (I forget), which is the same damn price anymore for a tiny mediocre frozen pizza from the grocery store. If you really want it NOW, go to Costco's food court and get huge ass slices for $2 each.
your frozen pizzas suck ass, COOP here in sweden has great frozen pizzas that feel like 3x as healthy as restaurant pizzas and are some of the cheaper food you can find.
First of all, I just checked the Dominos site and that price is a straight up lie even with a coupon. Second, are you really trying to say they make pizza that's any better than frozen? Last time I ate there, it was borderline inedible, and I'm not a snob - I used to happily eat the Totino's party pizzas that are like, $1.25.
Just checked out of curiosity and a large 3 topping carry out is $26.34 here in California.
Who buys a frozen pizza to just keep in the freezer?
Im buying that shit because Im gonna eat it.
Who buys one frozen pizza?
Me because my freezer is small
Consider investing in a bigger freezer.
You can get a good one new for under $200.00 It'll end up paying for itself in a few months if you order in a lot. I like to cook up a huge pot of chili/soup/stew and freeze it in pint size containers. Instead of ordering in, I can have something I like fast.
Rentoids need not apply
5 cubic feet of storage for under $200.00 Apx 1.5 cubic meters. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Magic-Chef-5-0-cu-ft-Chest-Freezer-in-White-HMCF5W4/311895690
I've seen these installed in vans. Not mobile homes, vans.
I wonder how quickly (especially with extra electricity) that is actually going to pay itself back
It would depend on how often OP orders food in. Also, they don't run 24/7. Once stuff reaches the set temperature the motor stops. Another advantage is bulk buying. If butter is on sale you can buy a lot and freeze it. Same thing for staples like chicken. The unit works less when you fill it up because the cold food stays cold in the insulated box.
My usual pattern is to cook a 5 litre pot of soup or stew and freeze in in pint size size containers. Or you can make spaghetti sauce and freeze it in smaller containers. Tight now I've got lentil soup and chili sitting in my freezer. Takes about 7 minutes to cook in the microwave.
Also, and this is just because I live in a neighborhood with an abundance of Italian food stores, I get a lot of precooked or ready to cook meals at the store and freeze them.
I was thinking more power use averaged over time. But yeah there's a lot of factors in calculating something like that.
I'm a freezer hoarder myself (mostly stuff I bought cheap, close to expiration) but I just have the bottom part of a typical European fridge (not double-wide) to use. Fills up pretty quickly but with the shape pizzas are, you can load up a shitload of those bad boys in an otherwise "full" fridge with some elbow grease.
was thinking more power use averaged over time
So much less than you'd think. My GIGANTIC unit (literally a full sized fridge model but on it's side as a chest freezer) costs something like $25 to run all year. These things are stupidly good at their job because cold air is dense and sinks, unlike a stand-up model that dumps the cold air out every time you open it.
My mini fridge for my soda and bongs costs more to run each year and is literally 1/in the volume
Chest freezers don't actually use a lot of electricity. They're a big insulated box that's closed most of the time, and since they open from the top rather than the front, the temperature doesn't change much when opened (since hot air rises, while cold air stays lower). The compressor doesn't have to run for very long to maintain the temperature.
In the USA, Energy Star estimates 215kWh per year for Energy Star certified chest freezers (open from the top) and 395kWh per year for certified upright freezers (open from the front): https://www.energystar.gov/products/freezers
just buy pizza dough, tomato sauce, mozzarella and toppings of your choice and make a fresh pizza. Takes 2min to prepare. It's healthier and tastes much better.
I did exactly as you said, is it supposed to be chewy?
There are people in this world who have seriously tried to sell me on the idea that frozen pizza is just as good as delivery.
And those people worry me.
It's best for everyone that we just accept that they are two different pizza concepts, and should not be ranked between each other.
I say that I like "garbage pizza" because that's how everyone around me treats the pizzas I like. I don't like the "good pizzas" that everyone keeps raving about. I'll take Domino's or Pizza Pizza any day of the week.
How about this argument. Just a quality ratio.
2 large delivery pizzas, to the door: $50 all in. $25per
2 good quality frozen pizzas: $12. $6 per
So we could say that delivery is four TIMES better.. and based on price/quality alone.. they're equal to frozen.
(I think we all know I'm not proposing an actual serious argument. But the cost difference is wild)
Laughs in Italian, where 50 euros would buy you 7 delivery pizzas. I feel really sorry for you people
it's not delivery, it's degeneracy
I buy a frozen pizza so I have something to eat when I have a hangover. Surprise surprise
Wait till Y'all find out 711 whole fresh pizza is better than Domino's and pizza Hut and costs less and is faster than frozen....
Well, it would be faster if I didn't need to drive 4 hours for a 7/11, but I get ya.
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