hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies
gentlemen and everyone watching welcome one and all i need to ask a question right off the bat
are you ready and i'm not just saying that as like a means to you know pump you up are you ready for
this you know i am asking this in the most serious of terms are you ready for what is to happen next
this review the subject matter therein may be life changing and by the time this video is done
however long it is 10 minutes from now however long this winds up being your life will probably
not be the same some of the biggest secrets some of the darkest secrets of the frozen pizza frozen
pizza world are going to be unleashed the game might be changed this might be it are you ready
i'll take that as a yes so let's let's do this let's get into this
we all know that our standard frozen pizza is right it's it's circular
it's flat and you eat it as a regular pizza what happens if you take that pizza
and before now it was considered the most sacrilegious thing you could possibly do
you cut the pizza in half and then you take that half of a pizza
and you slam it on top of itself and you make that half of a pizza into a sandwich what happens
these are the hard-hitting questions that red baron was asking in the boardroom about six months
ago i'm late to the game here but again that ruins the drama so we have to forget about that
what happens so they decided instead of pizza they took a slice of bread that's close enough
and they put cheese on the bread and toppings on the bread and then you fold it onto itself
and it's like a pizza sandwich hence a perhaps potential game changer
even though it's been out for months you know you never know it still might be we can't lose hope
the pizza melt from red baron this might be it remember the word might this might be it this
might be what does it pizza hut little caesars papa john's they might be sweating right now
this might actually be good i'm a fan of red baron i like them
i think they do a good job for what they what they are yeah the pizza melt i found it interesting
now i have this in the oven right now um this is a fairly new frozen really so from red baron
the pizza melt it's exactly that it's like a sandwich but a pizza all right hence the
image here it comes in a number of flavors i'm trying out the pepperoni one today um but it's
exactly that where you have a piece of bread you have cheese on top of the bread pepperoni
or whatever topping again it comes in like a cheese blend you can get like an everything one
you get a pepperoni one i go for the pepperoni of course then you could prepare it in the microwave
where it could be prepared in just three minutes or less or in the conventional oven um whichever
one is really you know up to your liking i kind of go old school with the conventional oven
then you take the bread out you fold it you make yourselves a sandwich and you know what
let me just show you how they make it i'm gonna i'm gonna prepare this for you i'll
show you we'll go from there but uh just follow me you'll see what this is and then we'll try it out
all right it's everyone's favorite disembodied voice uh narrating as you could see this already
action-packed preparation sequence the red baron pizza melt uh there are three
different uh flavors of it you can get it in pepperoni you can get it in four cheese
you can get it in supreme and like we've said the concept is very simple it's like a pizza on bread
like you could eat as a sandwich this comes with their cheese their sauce and the
topping in this case those red slabs are what we call pepperoni now they say you can prepare this
in the microwave simply put it just put it in the microwave on high for about three minutes
of course so because i'm such a contrarian i'm just oh i'm so out there i will be preparing
this one in the conventional oven which you preheat the oven to 375 put it in for about
18 to 20 minutes all right that's what it looks like outside of the box you do not put it in
the microwave with the plastic over it nor do you put it in the oven with the plastic
over it um in the oven you just put it on a baking sheet like so in the microwave they kind of have
this little slide that you put it on and then you put that on a microwave safe uh plate either way
you can see it looks pretty basic you know a good amount of cheese coverage you can't really see the
sauce all that well but it is buried underneath the cheese good pepperoni distribution as well
now let's put it in the oven and keep our fingers crossed let's see how this turns out
what do we have here we have ourselves a cooked pizza melt yes indeed it made it out safe and
sound it's looking good nice little bake to the cheese the pepperoni but um it seems to
have turned out well you can see again if you look at it you can't really see that there's a
ton of sauce on it although the sauce is there it's buried and hiding underneath that cheese
but definitely the pepperoni glistening in the grease again a good bake to everything i'm happy
with the way that it turned out in terms of its appearance now next up though comes i would say
the most challenging part this is only this is one of the most difficult things i've ever had
to do in my entire life i'll tell you that right now we have to fold it together and make ourselves
a true pizza melt this is a very formidable task but watch
let that speak for itself dear viewers let that speak for itself that's not something
that you see every day i will tell you that right there and i'm cutting it look at that
oh man this is crazy this is insane
wow look at that that's just unbelievable a pizza melt
a pizza melt from red baron let's try this out now and review it well after all those lively
action shots i think it says time to try it out is it really as groundbreaking and revolutionary
as they say it is here's here's the beautiful thumbnail shot by the way yeah trying it out
let's see let's see what we think of it the pizza melt from red baron close up view going in
i thought that was going to autofocus there that's really weird all right there we go going in now
i don't know if you can see it but it's real fresh i can
still see some of the steam emanating from it
i don't know how well it shows up on the camera
but my biggest fear when it came down to the pizza melt was that it was going to be gross.
that's my biggest concern i know sometimes these frozen items can be very hit or miss
um i was just worried it was going to be like a boiling hot sloppy
uh disgusting mess surprisingly enough it's it's not it's actually pretty good you see i'm always a
fan of red baron's pizza i just i don't know it's something about it that i like especially the the
deep dish pizzas from theirs which i don't know i just i think they're pretty good as a result i
know that i like their sauce i know that i like their cheese i know that i like their toppings
so essentially if you just put it on a piece of toast and make it a sandwich wouldn't be that bad
assuming they remained true to themselves which they did in layman's terms it's like eating a
pizza on toast that's the easiest way to describe it all the flavors are there the thing that i like
is that while the toast does have some you know dryness and some firmness and it does
provide some stability right you could hear that crunch i imagine on what teeth i have it's not
overly dry which is good i like that the sauce you don't really see a ton initially but it's there
and it adds some real much needed moisture to it as well it does a good job the sauce is robust
it's flavorful the cheese is decent but what i really notice is the pepperoni i know when you
saw me preparing it it might have seemed like i don't know how much you know pepperoni is really
there but let me tell you in every single bite i taste that pepperoni and this is like a little bit
of a spicier pepperoni so i get that little bit of a spice very flavorful and it's good
again i like that i think one concern that i had again was in the toast that it might get lost
in there you know that the bread kind of sucks up all the flavor and it's just too dry or too
you know like eating a cracker or something um but it really isn't i would say that it is
good for what it is and um yeah it's basic it's nothing gourmet this is like a it's
like a supermarket snack um it's something like right now it's it's 3 a.m when i'm filming this
i'd say this is a good meal for you to get it like 3 a.m it's like oh you know i'm kind of hungry i
want a little bit of a snack or something oh yeah go make this you know it's like pizza
in sandwich form it is filling though i'll say that i know that it looks a little small
based on you know the size it looks like a little a little tiny sandwich um but it's more filling
than you think so i think it definitely is good in terms of portion size um you know snack size
whatever i'd say it's definitely good for a snack though pretty tasty i don't really have
many complaints with it again the quality i think is decent the sauce is flavorful
cheese is flavorful i think it all blends together nice and again i like that textural difference
between the bread and the pizza itself but i definitely think that it is of good quality so
all things considered out of 10 what am i going to be rating my camera ran out of the camera ran out
of memory just as i was about to give the rating um added suspense right but considering that again
i think it's good it's flavorful i'm happy with the portion size i'm happy that all the flavors
are still they're out there it's good it's just like a pizza sandwich but it's good for what it is
um but also bearing in mind that it's affordable it's like for three bucks you can get this
it's frozen pizza quality may not be the world's finest vine ripened tomatoes or the richest
cheese in the world but it's still good for what it is therefore i will be giving this an eight out
of ten so the pizza melt the pepperoni pizza melt from red baron gets an eight out of ten maybe it
is revolutionary maybe it will change the frozen pizza landscape but no matter what i think it does
make a decent late night snack nonetheless that's all that i have for you i'm your host
the report of the week and thank you for checking out today's review take care and be safe everyone