Before we get into our first frozen pizza review, we must go through the grading scale process.
First and foremost will be overall taste, obviously. And that's where everything becomes subjective out of the gate. I mean, some people put fucking pineapple on their pizza - so their taste scale is fucking invalid.
So how do we decide the over all score? We deconstruct the pizza:
- Pepperoni stand alone score
- Cheese/sauce stand alone score
- Crust stand alone score.
Each score is based on a 5 point system, 5 being amazing, 0 being Pizza Hut level bad. We then take the three scores, tabulate and avg them out until we have our overall score.
Every pizza we grade will be a cheese/pepperoni pizza; and will be cooked exactly as the box directs us.
With that, enjoy the review.
Today's Review: Screamin' Sicilian Holy Pepperoni
Before I jump into the review, I want to be transparent - I posted about on twitter the other night that Screamin' should send me some of the products they make that aren't available to me and the next day they reached out and set up a shipment. So kudo's to them.
I've had the "Holy Pepperoni" pizza before - in fact, several times. It's a damn good frozen pizza. In the past, the only thing that had slowed me from buying them is the price; for the price you can get a fresh pizza from Little Caesars, so normally I'd do that. However, it's never a bad move to have some frozen pizza's in your garage freezer for days when you ain't got that cash for delivery.
The crust is a stone-fired butter crust that retains it's structure after baking in the over at 425 degrees for 19 minutes. A nice crunch on the crust, the sauce doesn't penetrate the crust underneath the cheese.
Let's talk about the pepperoni - honestly, the star of the show. A slight spiciness to it, there are a TON of pepperoni's. Probably the most I've ever seen on a frozen pizza.
The sauce is plentiful - not sweet, and that's always a bonus. The cheese is fine; nothing spectacular, which is ironic being that Screamin' comes from Wisconsin.
One thing I found interesting is the pizza company is founded by Gaspare Fallucca - or "Papa Palermo," ... I wonder if this is a relation to the Palermo Frozen pizzas.
On to the grade!
Crust: 3.9
Pepperoni: 4.2
Cheese/Sauce: 3.9
Total Points: 12
Official Score: 4.0
CURRENT FROZEN PIZZA STANDINGS
Screamin Sicilian Holy Pepperoni - 4.0
One Bite Pepperoni - 3.9