Frozen pizza is fine… but it doesn’t have to be. Today I’m turning a cheap frozen pizza into something seriously next level – crispy edges, insane cheese, and a simple vodka sauce that changes everything. This is the easiest way to upgrade any pizza at home 🍕
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0:00 This Cheap Pizza Gets an Upgrade
0:18 Starting with a Frozen Pizza
0:48 Making the Vodka Sauce
1:25 Building Flavor (Tomato Paste + Vodka)
2:16 Creamy Finish + Seasoning
2:52 Prepping the Pan (Detroit Style Setup)
3:14 Turning It Into Detroit-Style Pizza
3:47 Sauce + Cheese Overload
4:04 Pepperoni Time
4:22 Back Into the Oven
4:30 First Look Out of the Oven
4:48 Getting It Out Cleanly
5:11 The Crispy Edge Reveal
5:23 Cutting Into It
5:54 First Bite
6:17 Final Verdict
6:36 The Real “Hack” Explained
7:04 Outro
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43 Comments
That was the shocker. We all know it!
Why not just buy a premade pizza crust/dough?
I like a little greasy cheesy too. Dave Pornoy would vomit from the grease but It's cool by me 🙂
Wrapped up that Video with the OL “2 in the Pink 1 in the Stink”👊🏼🔥🍕🍕
This, boy's and girls, is how you scald three layers of skin off the roof of your mouth!
I think that one is called The Spock Her.
MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS‼️ TAKING FROZEN MEALS TO THE LEVEL or “ box food “ But all and all love your videos.. have made so many of meals from your videos and 10/10 every time much love to you and your family
why not just make a homemade "Detroit" pizza dough? its not that f'n hard to do! and F all the frozen sh!T
I've had a fang on for Baby Pan Pan from Little Caesars for about 15 years. I think you just solved this issue…..
Two in the pink, one in the stink.
I thought this was a food channel….lol
2 in the stink, one in the vodka sauce
Lipstick on a pig. That will never be good. Never mind the molten lava.
It means something bad 😬
aint nothing wrong w detroit style nor a shocker, had you gone SPOCKER wifey might get mad. Check w the other half before going where no man has gone before. O7 good food good times. TY sirs.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😅 he threw up the Encinitas gang sign lol
I’ve done this sort of thing already it’s very nice I was just wondering have you ever done a garlic naan bread pizza? Lots of people in the UK are doing this now it’s so good and quick and easy because garlic naan bread is in every supermarket in the UK, so it’s cheap to do as well
Very interesting. You can also jazz up a frozen pizza quite a bit just by adding some sauce on top before it goes in the oven.
Mmm…lasagne! 😮
Why vodka?
Please don't let your fond get that dark it will make everything bitter. Would I do this? You damn straight I would and destroy it with no hesitation. Thank you Sam
And fresh basil on top yummmmmmmmmy
TOO MUCH WORK, GO GET A PIE CRAZY
I always doctor up my frozen pizzas, but I’m gonna try that!!
I mostly doctor up my frozen pizza, onion, roasted red peppers, garlic olive oil and parmigiana cheese. Fresh basil and diced tomatoes if available.
Just did this with Screamin' Sicilian Bessie's Revenge 4 cheese pizza, a cast iron skillet instead of a square pan and jarred vodka sauce instead of homemade with everything else the same. I think I cooked my pizza for 23 minutes instead of 15 and hit it for less than 1 minute under the broiler. I'd suggest waiting a half hour and not the 2 minutes as suggested in the video to remove from the pan otherwise it will be a runny but delicious mess.
Mozzarella not mutzarel
Ingredients:: 99% cheese, 1% other stuff.
Might as well just sit on the toilet while eating it
Tegrity Pizza
Sam, I've eaten a lot of frozen pizza's. recently, I purchased one called Home Run Inn out of Chicago. That's the best frozen pizza I've ever eaten, hoping you'll try one.
How can I make the crust softer…frozen pizza crust ends up like eating a delicious sauce etc. on a hard cracker !! I like softer crusts. 😋
Noodles would be proud!
What size pan??
Ima try that shortly fellas. 🤘
Looks good but all the preservatives in the frozen one then adding more sauce and cheese gotta be an 800 calorie cut. Better to make your own
Brother….we gotta retire chunkified dust. Once and for all.
"If I were to switch to a spoon"….. Classic!
Cheers to you for BREAKING MY BUDGET…. Now I have to try it.
I don't know…this seems like a LOT of extra work for a frozen pizza. If you're going to go so far as to make your own sauce, and add fresh cheese…you might as well just make the dough too. It does look good though. I think the biggest weakness in most frozen pizzas is the crust though. Well…and obviously vegetables. Cheese freezes fine. Sauce freezes fine. Meat freezes fine. Veggies and dough does not.
Stuff/Fond
Thank you for not putting mayonnaise on it.
You might as well make a fresh pizza. This completely defeats the point of a frozen pizza.