Bought Some Pizzas

[Chetlaham]

I went crazy celebrating my now working stove and frost free side by side refrigerator freezer so bought a few frozen pizzas. To cold to cook, and nothing better IMO than a fresh hot pizza on a cold winter day after shoveling snow outside.

Pepperoni and onions added for taste. 450*F for 15 minutes for a crispy, well done pizza. Can't 100% replicate the function of a brick oven but I think I came close.

 

[cfz2882]

Looks good-now i might have to heat one up this evening... I usually use my ~2012 Presto pizza turntable, but 1951 wall oven is ready if i decide to go old skool... I got just a tiny dusting of snow overnite.

 

[Chetlaham]

Looks good-now i might have to heat one up this evening... I usually use my ~2012 Presto pizza turntable, but 1951 wall oven is ready if i decide to go old skool... I got just a tiny dusting of snow overnite.

Treat yourself, tis the season


The reason for the slightly over-done top is to get the bottom reasonably crispy. I don't have a pizza stone so I have to improvise a little bit.

 

[phillymatt53]

Looks good-now i might have to heat one up this evening... I usually use my ~2012 Presto pizza turntable, but 1951 wall oven is ready if i decide to go old skool... I got just a tiny dusting of snow overnite.

We got about 8 inches here so far.
It's icy rain lightly coming down now, so it'll compact the snow and make shoveling difficult,
However, my doorbell rang an hour ago, and a good friend of mine was out there in 20 degrees in his ski outfit shoveling my walkway pavement for me. - He insisted that I don't shovel, like I was some invalid or something. LOL!
He's 35, a strong 6'3" healthy dude and not afraid to do things for the "elderly" folk.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Mmmm, other than a takeout or occasional eating out a store-bought frozen pizza is the way to go!

Here’s the sole-survivor of all those “freezer filling quick, easy, filling instant meals” we’ve long eaten…

And often add more pepperoni to!

 

[Chetlaham]

And often add more pepperoni to!

Dave, you know me to well, LOL!







BTW Dave, I can't help but notice the battered shrimp and apple wood smoked bacon and cheddar patties. You've got great tastes.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Dave, you know me to well, LOL!




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BTW Dave, I can't help but notice the battered shrimp and apple wood smoked bacon and cheddar patties. You've got great tastes.

Thank you for noticing, Chet!

Yes, the Applewood-smoked patties with built-in cheddar cheese, and the black & blue, with its own blue cheese, are my favorites!

 

[Chetlaham]

Thank you for noticing, Chet!

Yes, the Applewood-smoked patties with built-in cheddar cheese, and the black & blue, with its own blue cheese, are my favorites!

Welcome!

I'm hungry just thinking about it, LOL.

 

[phillymatt53]

You guys are so fussy over foods..... LOL!

I'm in heaven with just a can of Pringles Cheddar Cheese chips and a beverage while watching TV.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Well how’s this for whetting appetizes?

Really wonder what people have against crinkle cut fries?

Are they too much cafeteria or institutional food service fodder?

Wanted the seasoned fries to occasionally liven up the generic fish sticks sitting up there that are in a reduced price economy size but I think will be too damn many for regular enjoyment as fish like this isn’t always the best alternative to fresh fish that somehow many also dislike…

Enter the better Guinness brand breaded fish and shrimp though the latter I prefer to eat as the non Kosher seafood I greatly prefer over what “we’re allowed to eat” though I’m not a fan of catfish, forbidden but it’s still too FiSHY for me!

That’s what the steak fries are reserved for, and sorry those packages are standard beyond any recognition—this freezer is VERTICAL, and falls out more easily than your top or even bottom mounted freezers more capable of preventing tumbling out because stuff’s better stored HORIZONTALLY!

Oh, the black & blue—well, the next best thing to buying your own blue cheese crumbles which maybe on plain burger patties I’ll some day do…

 

[Chetlaham]

Have you tried Arby's Curly fries? Our store has them in the frozen section. They come out great when deep fried.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Have you tried Arby's Curly fries? Our store has them in the frozen section. They come out great when deep fried.

No, but maybe I will…

My daughter bought an air fryer that she no longer uses which I never have…
I don’t own a deep fryer or really have a way to even not so deep fry without wondering how I get messy grease spatters everywhere…

To me, going to a restaurant-brand product is not the same thing as going to the actual restaurant…

Such as Red Lobster’s cheddar bay biscuits or McDonald’s McCafe blended coffee and the last time I went to an Arby’s after not eating there for a long time presented a menu that had too many things to make up my mind what to order that I’d have to frequently eat out there enough and probably spending more there than on what I prefer to make myself!

 

[Chetlaham]

Do what I do. Fill a pot, fill it half way with either vegetable or canola oil, heat it to 350*F and then put items in it. Pull out with tongs when ready. Ideal? No. But it gets the job done.

Home fried items will always beat fast food in that you have control over everything. And you know the oil is fresh and to your liking.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Do what I do. Fill a pot, fill it half way with either vegetable or canola oil, heat it to 350*F and then put items in it. Pull out with tongs when ready. Ideal? No. But it gets the job done.

Home fried items will always beat fast food in that you have control over everything. And you know the oil is fresh and to your liking.

Sounds good, but I just know there's that ocean of unused oil left...

The having to wipe out the excessive amounts of (I use end-pieces of loaves of bread, where available & find that's enough to fry more with) and the cooking vessels going in the dishwasher without any food particles potentially wasted when I consume every morsel & crumb and don't want to clog up the filtering I'd recently been free of having to, though I have a couple coffee cups that won't lose those grounds...

 

[combo52]

Baking frozen pizzas

Hi Chet , if you want a nice crispy pizza bottom you should bake it directly on the rack.

In any case you should never cover the rack in a residential oven with foil 75% of the heat comes from the bottom of an electric oven all of the heat in the case of a gas oven if you block the heat circulation like that, you may damage the floor of the oven and cause the heating element to fail to say nothing of broken windows and other things that can happen.

If your electric oven has an exposed bake element, you can put foil on the floor of the oven under the heating element to catch drips, etc.

John L

 

[joeekaitis]

This li'l beauty just came out of the Frigidaire.
Chicken Italian sausage and turkey pepperoni on a rising crust cheese pizza. Air Fry cycle at 400° for 24 minutes directly on the middle rack, drip pan below.