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samcrut t1_ir6l1an wrote

Reply to comment by mnamilt in Attack of the pizza-making robots by Gari_305

Frozen pizza assembly lines make all the same pizzas. Different machines make cheese pizzas than supreme pizzas. The trick is custom builds. Half pepperoni and half veggie, or whatever.

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mnamilt t1_ir6y1fj wrote

Intuitively it doesnt really make sense for me that the custom builds make it so much more difficult, but reality also shows that my intuition is clearly wrong lol. Thanks!

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samcrut t1_ir7fgpu wrote

Also, they're not made one at a time. They're cranked out en masse. The reason Totino's went to square pizzas is they can feed dough into the machine and extrude a long crust banner, like a never-ending sheet of bread. That passes under the tomato sauce machine, then cheese, then other toppings and then they just cut the ribbon into squares with a single press. It's more like assembly line manufacturing than cooking.

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mnamilt t1_ir7fz1u wrote

Ahh, that helps a lot to makes sense of it

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Southern-Exercise t1_ira0trl wrote

The round pizzas tasted better and you'll never convince me otherwise.

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samcrut t1_irbst0u wrote

There was a batch of them after they went square where something was different in the crust dough that made it taste, like, "Holy crap! THat's GOOD!" Like somebody sprinkled some ketamine in the dough or something. It wasn't really flavor, but something else. Like a mood booster was in it. Or maybe I had a small stroke while eating that particular pizza, but damn it was good. All 3 that I bought that time were like that, and then it was over. Now they're back to normal $1 pizza quality.

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