RSSFrozen Food Review: Hot Pockets and DiGiorno Pizza
August 22nd, 2006 | View Comments
Despite my best efforts to cook and feed myself well, I still wind up eating “effort-free food”—frozen pizza, microwave dinners, you name it—every so often. Usually because I don’t have the time and energy to prepare a nice meal, but sometimes because they look so darn tasty. These Hot Pockets® and the DiGiorno® pizza caught my eye on my last trip to the supermarket.
Hot Pockets Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Biscuits
A TV commercial for these caught my eye, because I love me some fatty breakfast food. So when the Giant Eagle had a giant bin of these on sale, I grabbed a box to try them.
They were disappointing.
The flavor was rather flimsy and largely overwhelmed by the taste of undercooked flour. I would have liked more butter flavor in the biscuit. The sausage was ok, but the eggs and cheese were barely present. Overall, the whole thing needed more salt.
My microwave is rather under-powered, so tomorrow I’m going to try zapping the other one for longer and see how it turns out.
ADDED: How it turned out? Overcooked. *sigh* It was better though, so I think I will buy another box to try to find a happy-medium cooking time. I think I can definitively say that they need to use some better quality cheese and eggs, because 1) no flavor, and 2) can’t tell what’s cheese and what’s egg.
DiGiorno® Garlic Bread Pizza, Pepperoni Variety
This 12″ square of tastiness takes longer than your average pizza to bake (26 minutes), but the results are worth it. The pizza, which I baked on a preheated pizza sheet, had a nice, thick, crust that was pleasantly crispy on the bottom. The crust had just the right amount of garlic and butter flavor, not bland, but not overwhelming. And they were pretty generous with the cheese and pepperoni.
I, a 5′ 4″ and 125-pound woman, found that one-quarter of the pizza and a couple handfuls of potato chips made for a very filling and satisfying dinner. Definitely a product I will buy again.
Yvonne posted this on August 22nd, 2006 @ 1:42pm in Food/Cooking, Graduate School, Life | Permalink to "Frozen Food Review: Hot Pockets and DiGiorno Pizza"
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1. frank tavolaro » September 10th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
i want to say is the new digiorno ultamite pizza is one of the best frozen pizza i’ve ever had its so much better then pizzarias i’ve tried everyone of the ultamites and the truley make your mouth water when you smell the cooking.and the taste is even better