Delivery if I’m at home during normal delivery hours, which is to say, only on my nights off. Otherwise I’ll buy a frozen one and doctor it up a bit.
I have a pizza stone I received as a gift a few years ago, but I’ve actually never gotten around to using it. I really should as I don’t mind cooking.
The best pizzas in the world I no longer have access to – Cassano’s and Marian’s in Dayton and Jerry’s in Chillicothe.
I used to have pick it up at a gourmet pizza place but then I discovered I am a celiac so I can’t eat the crust. I make my own at home using a rice & potato flour concoction for the crust. It’s pretty good but I miss the pesto & proscuitto stuffed pizza I used to get. It was fantastic.
Quoth cmyk:
Most pizza places use oven temperatures much higher than home ovens can reach. Homemade pizza recipes must therefore be adjusted accordingly. You’ll often get something worse than restaurant pizza, occasionally something better, but you’ll never get the same thing they get.
Yeah. I go pick it up from the pizza place on the corner of my street, which is an independent place. I have, to the best of my recollection, never eaten a Pizza Hut, Domino’s, Papa John’s, etc. Have eaten at California Pizza Kitchen, though, I’ll admit.
I also sometimes eat frozen pizza (DiGiorno) or make my own.
I think Dominos/Pizza Hut/Papa John’s/Little Caesar’s/Sbarro and other “fast food” style pizzas should be a separate category from places like California Pizza Kitchen and other pizza places of slightly higher standards.
Sometimes I’ll buy frozen pizza that I can heat in the microwave. Sometimes I’ll drive to Little Caesar’s for their really cheap $5 large pizzas. Sometimes if Pizza Hut has a special, I’ll order from them online. I’m really a pizza slob. I won’t turn any pizza down, especially cheap chain-store pizza.
We do all of those at times…except frozen from the store. Yeek.
I buy bags of frozen raw dough. Thaw, let rise, shape. The rest I do from scratch.
I get take-and-bake from Papa Murphy’s. You need a take-and-bake option!
If I eat it out, I’ll go somewhere that does Italian rather than American style pizza, as I prefer the lighter base and fewer toppings. If I order in, I go for big oogy american style pizza (it seems to transport better). In Italy, my holiday-home has an outdoor pizza oven, so I make it, mainly so I can play with fire.
It wouldn’t occur to me to buy it frozen. Isn’t that just for students? Besides, all supermarkets I know sell it fresh so I can’t see the point of buying frozen (UK).
I voted delivery, but in reality, I end up with pizza 50/50 delivery/from scratch. I don’t make it, but my wife does.
I buy the fresh refrigerated dough at Trader Joe’s and make my own. No tomato sauce.
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I used to do this a lot, but my wife likes Paul Newman’s frozen pizzas, and lately I’ve come to the conclusion that they’re almost as good as my homemades, and a hell of a lot easier. And when you’ve got a 3 year old, ‘easier’ is really really important.
We do all four sometimes, but the most common is to make pizza from scratch at home. In fact we do this every other Friday. If the young flodnaks had their say it would probably be every Friday…
Either I walk down the block to Tony Vespa (best pizza in Tel Aviv), or my wife makes it from scratch.
I’m lucky I live about 5 minute walk away from the best pizzeria in my city.
They don’t deliver a true sign of good pie. Bake it and they will come.
In the U.S., college students stereotypically live on delivery pizza. Frozen pizza requires planning (shopping), storage (university housing often doesn’t have kitchens or fridges), and preparation.
Frozen pizza is a convenience often marketed to overworked parents.
All supermarkets sell fresh baked pizza? Here only very large ones with large deli/food bar sections will have fresh pizza and it’s usually pretty bad quality pizza.
They don’t bake it on the premises. It’s made in a factory somewhere, and you bake it yourself. It can be much better than frozen pizza. Like SanVito, I just don’t see the point of frozen pizza. The non-frozen ones have a pretty decent shelf life. [Edit] Actually, I suppose there is a point - I think the frozen ones tend to be cheaper.