Brittney Bragg > Pizza Critique

                      Homemade Pizza
          When doing the pizza taste test we tasted a homemade pizza, a store bought crust pizza, and a frozen pizza.Out of the three pizzas we tasted the one that I liked the best was the homemade pizza. The warm, airy, crispy crust and the soft, vibrant sauce is the reason that I liked the homemade pizza the best. When we were comparing the three pizzas in my opinion the homemade one had the best appearance, taste, and texture. After tasting all three pizzas the homemade pizza had the best crust because it was soft and airy but was also crispy too. Most people like to  have really greasy, soggy pizza but for me I like to have my pizza in between soggy and crunchy and the pizza that had exactly what I like was the homemade pizza.
                    Premade Crust Pizza
       When I tasted the store bought crust pizza it wasn't my least favorite but I did not like the flavor or texture in the pizza. The crust on this pizza was very dry,hard, and had little flavor. When making a homemade pizza you can control home much flavor you want but when you buy a store bought crust you have no control over the flavor in the crust. The crust was very bland and was very thin and soft with no crunchiness to it at all.
                         Frozen Pizza
      This pizza was my least favorite pizz. The hard crunchy crust and the soogy, goopy cheese was overwhelming the pizza. The hard crispy crust was too hard to chew and the rest of the pizza was soggy, greasy and clumpy. Overall throught this taste test I found that I prefer the homemade pizza or the the premade pizza crust pizza over the frozen pizza.

Joey Berens Pizza Blog

PIZZA, PIZZA, PIZZA

The assignment
taste test homemade, bag, and frozen pizzas

Homemade

4/5

This pizza was easily my favorite. The best part about this pizza was easily the crust. It was soft, but not soggy. The cornmeal made the bottom of the crust have a interesting texture that it liked. The sauce was minimal, but that is what made this pizza so good. The sauce was tangy but not spicy like the other pizzas we tried. The cheese was very delicious and provided color and flavor to the pizza.

Bag Pizza

2/5

The bag crust pizza was the worst out of the 3 that we tried. The crust was really bland and stiff, and it absorbed the moisture from the pizza sauce, making the pizza very stodgy. The cheese was the best part about the pizza, as there was mounds of gooey cheese on the pizza. 

Frozen Pizza
3/5

The frozen pizza was the mid range pizza in this experiment. The good part about this pizza was the crust and the sauce. The crust was the typical brittle, hard crust, which isn't bad, but is not preferable. The sauce was very spicy, but there was way too much for my liking. The worst part about this pizza would be the cheese or lack of. One of my favorite parts about pizza is the cheese, and the amount of cheese was war ration like in proportion to the rest of the pizza. 

PIZZA REVIEW

PIZZA CRITIQUE

CLAIRE SCHMITT

This week in class we taste tested three different kinds of pizza and their crusts. There was a frozen pizza, a homemade pizza crust, and a store bought pizza crust. In my personal opinion, pizza is not the most appealing food, so beware of some biased reviews from a person far from being a pizza expert!

1. Frozen Pizza

Oh lord, where do I begin? On a scale from 1-10, I would sadly give this train wreck a 1.5. My reasoning behind this was that the crust was flavorless and overall very dull. It had a cardboard-like appearance with its unnatural smoothness and light color. The texture was stale and dry while the taste was a mixture of burnt and sweet. What a weird combination. It's aroma was very weak and basically was non-existent. The overall appearance of this pizza was flat and dull with the sad chunks of meat and the range of colors from burnt to unnatural. The overall acceptability was revolting, and  something I would never choose to eat. Let's just say I would have to be very desperate to choose something like this to eat over anything else!

2. Homemade White Crust Pizza

Out of all three pizzas, this was the most acceptable to me. Does that mean that I loved it and would want to eat it again? No. Like I said before, ya girls not a fan of pizza. On a scale of 1-10, this one would get a solid 3. This texture was slightly hard, but definitely softer than the other two. It was the thickest of the two also, and had the most variety of color and grease. The taste was salty and greasy from the melted cheese, which also helped soften up the crust. There was not a strong taste that I would associate with this pizza because it was basically just plain and tasteless with a dash of salt and fat.  The color of this crust had an orange tint and the toppings colors were much more diverse than the other pizzas. The aroma was slightly sweet and moderately acceptable. The overall appearance was greasy and cheap looking (like when your mom would let you make pizzas at home for dinner with a kit that she bought at the grocery store when you were a kid). Also, the crust was slightly flaky if you were to grab one of the edge pieces. Overall, the acceptability was tolerable, but in my opinion it was nothing special. 

3. Pre-Made Crust

This pre-made crust was fine. Well, sort of fine. Out of ten, it would probably get a 2. This crust was on the thinner side and was very reminiscent of the crusts you would get in a lunchable. The texture was very hard and made the pizza feel stale tough. The taste was very weak. Honestly I tasted nothing but the crust, which was like a giant cracker. This bland pizza had a super pale color and looked dull and dry. It's aroma was not acceptable because of the fact that it smelled acidic and barf like. The overall appearance was lumpy and curdled from the cheese. According to my notes, I wrote "super super gross", so there's that.  It was also pale and flat, contributing to my overall acceptability of this pizza to be a big fat "NO". 


Overall, if I were stranded on a desert island and my only three options of food were these three pizzas, I would have to choose the Homemade White Crust Pizza. My reasoning behind this is that the texture of this pizza was the most appealing because of its different levels of hardness and chewiness. Also, this pizza had a better scent that actually reminded me of tomato sauce, which is a big factor in pizza for me. Was this pizza the best pizza I have ever had in my life? No. But it did have some aspects to it that I did somewhat enjoy and made the pizza the best out of the three (in my opinion). Well, I bid thee farewell as I continue on my journey to finding the most appealing pizza to me that will result in some socks being blown off.  

**enjoy this picture of a dog eating pizza. I know this is unnecessary to have in a pizza critique but it's just too darn cute!

~ Pizza Blog~

In my baking and pastry class we were asked to sample three different types of pizza and vote on which one had the best taste, texture, and appearance. The three pizzas we had to choose between were Frozen, Pre-made, or Homemade and here was how I decided which one I like the best. 

Frozen: 

The frozen pizza was honestly the worst out of all three. The crust was very dry and tough to chew. The sauce was not spicy enough, or satisfying at all. The meat mix that was a top the pizza was very bland and quite dry. Once you got past the first bite the texture of the pizza was dry with every bite, and it's appearance wasn't too pleasing either. The pizza was very thin and almost had a burnt look to it in general. Don't take me wrong this pizza smelled delicious between the sweet marinara smell and the spicy meat. I'd eat it over the other pizzas if we voted by smell, or I've just eaten enough frozen pizza in my life.

Pre-Made:

The Pre-made was a tiny bit better than the Frozen only because it's appearance looked more appetizing, but it still had the stale and crunchy crust which I didn't like that much. This pizza tasted greasy and bland overall. It wasn't the worst but it still was one of my least favorites. The sauce reminded me of eating spaghetti which made me want pasta, not pizza. The Texture of the pizza was better than the frozen since it wasn't as dry or crunchy. But the appearance was pretty much the same for the both of them, dull. The smell to this pizza was very similar to the Homemade one because of the sauce on both of them. Smelled very tomato like and somewhat garlicy. 

Homemade:
This pizza was the best out of all three of the pizzas we had tried. The appearance alone made you want to sink your teeth into it. The crust and dough was thick, with a garlic, Parmesan, parsley sprinkled crust to the cornmeal on the bottom of the pizza. The sauce was still too spaghetti like which I didn't like a lot, but the melted salty cheese layered on top of the pizza countered that. The texture of the pizza was pleasing because it was soft and chewy, it was not hard to bite into and get a bit of each delicious flavor. You could smell this pizza just walking into the room, an you knew it was this one because no other one seemed to have any amazing spices on them. This made you want to eat more of this one than the others just because it met your taste buds before you ate it. 

 

Pizza Critique

Taylor Brooks-2

In class we were give three types of pizzas to taste and give our opinion on them.  The three pizzas were Homemade White Crust Pizza, Pre-made Crust and Frozen Pizza.

Homemade White Crust Pizza- The crust was crunchy but also very soft. The mozzarella cheese melted in your mouth when you took a big bite. When you bit into the pizza it was very thick and chewy, which is delicious by the way. When I smelt this pizza it smelt like my kitchen after my mom had just made hot lasagna, it smelt amazing. I would give this pizza a 8/10, I did not like the crust as much as I thought I would have.

Pre-Made Crust Pizza- This pizza had an over-abundance of red pizza sauce, which made it hard to enjoy the other components of the pizza. When I bit into this pizza it had a hard, crunchy crust and I could only taste the oil when it was in my mouth, it was very greasy. This pizza was my least favorite because of the over- whelming amount of sauce. When I have pizza I don't like a lot of sauce, I like to be able to taste the gooey cheese and the warm crust as well.

Frozen Pizza: Surprisingly the frozen pizza was my favorite out of all the pizzas. It was so crispy and crunchy I wanted to have 5 more pieces just so I could taste the crispness of the crust. It had the perfect amount of sauce, cheese everything. It melted in your mouth, it was pure perfection.

Food Critique

                                                             Cookie Critique:
Comparing the homemade chocolate chip and the famous amos cookies I found that the chocolate chip cookies to be better. The chocolate chip cookies were brown , soft, and sweet . Also for the texture ,taste,color,aroma, and overall appearances all got 3's because the cookie  met my expectations compared to the famous amos cookies. On the other hand the famous amos cookies were hard , crumbly , and crunchy. Even though it was good the overall acceptability is a 2.5 while the homemade chocolate chip cookie is at 3.

Pizza Review

Maddy Harder

9/29/2015

Hr.2

Pizza Review

During my Baking and Pastry class were put to the test of tasting different types of baked pizzas such as Frozen, Pre-Made, and Homemade. The three pizzas were baked differently, their appearance were turned out different then I expected it to be, but it's not appearance that I was tested on, I had taste it and get the texture and see if they are different than they look. 

First I've tried the frozen pizza, the appearance of was burnt, been over cooked a bit. The frozen pizza was a dull, blah color which makes it unappealing not appetizing to the eye, but once I tasted it, it was a whole new world of disgusting. Everything about it was dry, fake with every bite, nothing about it was appealing to me and I wouldn't recommended to other people because it's not worth taking a bite out of fake frozen pizza unless they prefer it. In my personal opinion I gave this pizza 3/10.

Second I went to the next pizza the Pre-Made. The overall appearance had a golden brown coloring with a greasy appearance to it; when you lift it off the plate it would make a greasy stain on it, and it also had a cheesy aroma smell to it which makes you know that it doesn't have any artificial flavored or ingredients to the pizza itself. Once I've sunk my teeth into the pizza I've taste familiar flavors that you put in spaghetti. Even through the crust was the perfect fluffy texture and the right crunch, but it did not satisfy my taste buds. All I could taste in my mouth was a cup load of greasy which would not satisfy anyone's hunger for this pizza. In my personal opinion I gave this pizza 7/10.

Lastly I've tried the Homemade pizza with white crust. The overall appearance of this pizza was that the entire pizza had a thick layer of dough beneath the cheese, it had more crust than pizza so it would just be a cheesy bread instead calling it a pizza. The Homemade had a cheesy and dough aroma to it which clicks into your brain, knowing that it's defiantly homemade. The cheese had a golden brown coloring, and a gralicy taste to it which satisfy my taste buds if you're a garlic fan like me. In my personal opinion I gave this is pizza 9/10. the best out of all the pizzas I have test tasted.