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By: Philipp Bräuner
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An Italian snack from the oven at home: this is the frozen pizza.
Four professionals tested some of them - and discovered a trick used by many manufacturers.
Kassel – A long day at work or a lazy Sunday: sometimes the food just has to be done quickly.
The handle quickly goes into the freezer.
The frozen pizza is particularly popular with many people.
Or for those in the know, simply: TKP.
Four Italian cooking professionals have chosen a selection of the classic.
Their conclusion is partly devastating.
The program is being tested on
WDR
's Servicezeit .
Two cooking teachers and two chefs put it to the test there.
A total of five frozen pizzas will be served at the tasting.
In particular, it's about the Quattro Formaggi variety - i.e. four cheeses.
Just a variant of the dough dish that relies on selected ingredients.
A not entirely trivial criterion, as will become clear in the course of the tasting.
Professional chefs test Quattro Formaggi frozen pizzas and are not very impressed
Let's start with the offer from Dr.
Oetker.
“It doesn’t look that bad,” says one of the testers.
The bubbles in the dough and the thick edge of the snack are particularly popular.
First drawback: the professionals taste a lot of sugar in the sauce.
But that's not enough.
“I’m disappointed,” says one of the testers, picking at the toppings on the pizza, “it’s not cheese.”
But what is it then?
Four-cheese pizzas like this are a bestseller: But some manufacturers are apparently cheating when it comes to cheese.
(Symbolic image) © Zoonar/Burakova Irina/Imago
A mixture of cream, cream cheese and spices, the professional chef suspects.
At the beginning it looks like a blue cheese, like the Gorgonzola that is essential for the original.
But that has little to do with the Italian specialty.
There are also no two opinions when it comes to the variant of good and cheap: It can't be Gorgonzola.
One of the cooks suspects some kind of cream.
Where Dr.
Oetker was able to score points with the dough, there are only raised eyebrows at Gut und Günstig.
“This is a bread,” says one of the testers succinctly.
“That sounds a bit like a cookie,” says another while cutting the ready meal.
Professionals see cheese tricks in many of the frozen pizzas
The manufacturers seem to copy the cheese trick from each other.
Because with the next test subject, namely the Original Wagner stone oven pizza, it is immediately clear to everyone: you won't find Italian delicatessen products here.
“That’s a Frisbee,” jokes one of the chefs – which obviously says everything about the quality of the dough.
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In the end, a single frozen pizza can convince the culinary specialists.
It bears the promising name “Four Cheeses for a Hallelujah” from the Gustavo Gusto brand.
When it was served, the faces of all the testers immediately lit up.
A successful crust, a good tomato sauce: “The highlight” is what one of the professionals thinks.
But what about the cheese here?
“It tastes like Gorgonzola!” says a chef happily.
And he is also very enthusiastic about the Hallelujah pizza: “You can also eat it in Italy!” Accordingly, this variant was unanimously declared the winner by all four.
As apparently the only one with real gorgonzola taste, maybe that wasn't too difficult.
(pkb)
But manufacturers can do a lot wrong not only with ready-made pizza, but also with ready-made dough.