Frozen Pizza MEGA FACTORY: How Automation Produces TONS of Pizzas Daily
Making frozen pizzas for mass distribution involves a series of automated steps: Large mixers combining flour, water, yeast, and other ingredients create a smooth dough in large quantities.
The dough is then automatically divided into portions which are transported on long conveyor belts to sheeting machines, which flatten and shape them into precise, circular bases suitable for various pizza sizes.
Automated sauce applicators evenly spread tomato sauce on the dough, adjusting quantities based on pizza size. Toppings are added through automated systems, ensuring even distribution of cheese, pepperoni, vegetables, and other ingredients.
The pizzas then enter large ovens, operating at precise temperatures, to achieve a crispy crust, melt the cheese, and cook the toppings. After baking, the pizzas cool down on conveyor belts, passing through freezers and inspection stations equipped with cameras and sensors to ensure quality. Packaging stations are also where machines place them in cardboard boxes or plastic wraps, sealing in freshness.
The reported increase in U.S. sales of frozen pizza from approximately 6.06 billion U.S. dollars to 6.77 billion U.S. dollars between 2021 and 2022 underscores the growing popularity and demand for this convenient food option. Several factors could contribute to this upward trend. Firstly, the convenience and ease of preparation associated with frozen pizzas make them an attractive choice for consumers with busy lifestyles, especially amid the ongoing challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Now I know why every frozen pizza I've ever bought doesn't have enough sauce
I recently discovered a Swedish brand called "Billy's Pizza". It has loads of sauce, it's right up my alley. I love lots of tomato sauce on my pizza. Cheese is meh, but the sauce and crust is a-ok :)
Tyler Mac yeah let’s go
or flavor. terrible pizza. friends dont let friends pay lots of money for the worst of the worst.
@@jamesgarner2103 i make pizza (or calzone) from scratch every week. but there is always a frozen pizza in my freezer. such an easy dinner to make. and since im always making pizza i always have some extra toppings and cheese to throw on. i would say frozen pizza is far from the "worst of the worst".
Pretty sure I've been getting them outside edge pizzas.
"Toppings are distributed with precision." ::Shows large chunks spewing all over pizzas and the conveyor belt with equal distribution and reckless abandon::
This made me laugh my ass off
That's what I was thinking!!! 😂😂
The precision in topping distribution seems to have gone awry, with chunks carelessly scattered across pizzas and the conveyor belt, lacking any semblance of order.
half the fun of frozen pizzas is re organizing the toppings before putting it in the oven.
@@MrBa143I thought I was the only one who did that lol
All that machinery, amazing robotics and engineering, for crappy frozen pizza.
Hahah facts
So why is it so expensive for crap
Because most people live in poverty and decide not to grow their own food or can't.
Haha
Add more sauce and more cheese..
As an industrial maintenance worker, all I see is a nightmare of machines when they go down or aren't working right.
I'd hate to be the cleaning staff for these machines
i worked at spring water i portland and for two months the arm that can lift three five gallon jugs of water and rack them in front facing crates broke down and we had to lift them all day for ten hours every day. they got lunch everyday but it was a work out all day. like 42.3 pounds and we switched off sitting bottles on the conveyer and a machine sterilized them also every two hours
Just imagine the machine that squirts tomato pizza sauce adding 3 times too much sauce and there is sauce being stuck to everything around that area. 'Clean up 2 tons of pizza sauce in Aisle 10!'...bahahaha
Tyler Mac yum I want too get it
I know these kinds of machines are not new, but I still am amazed how they make these contraptions.
I have bought frozen pizzas, and opened them up only to find the toppings are all frozen to one side of the pizza. Now I know why.
I came here to say this!!!
Shipping causes it and they are partially thawed and refrozen a few times during shipping. But enjoy! lol
@@BigReggiesounds like great safe food practice
Am I the only one who grew up watching how it’s made or unwrapped on the food network? Lol I realize now that’s why I love AMSR! 😂
Go to bed u r tired
@@timroberts8599 🤣
Tyler Mac we gotta go get everyone in the pizza hurry up
WHAT is AMSR?
@@annernst6283 i guess i was tired 🥱 but I meant ASMR
Show a video on how they sanitize a place like that
Still probably less germs there then at a pizza place where a guy just took a dump and didn’t was his hands and added a lil chocolate to the pizza. It don’t matter, you cook them at like 450 degrees for 15 min. Nothing is surviving that
Underneath the pressing plattens (around 2:15) concerns me quite a bit. There's a lot of pressure washing and a lot of foaming with chlorine containing soaps, then a lot of residual sanitizer sprayed (quat ammonia). I too would like to see how they do this plant. .
They cant show the children at work.
The narrator really wants you to know that the process is automated, precise, consistent, and carefully calibrated. Thorough uniformity. Truly superior.
don't worry guys. the entire machinery is at least operated by an italian operator. so you still get that distinct italian experience in every bite. o_o
“These machines are calibrated to dispense the precise amount…” proceeds to rain toppings over the entire belt in the most in-exact manner possible.
2:25 you saw the pizza the machine missed? haha
I enjoy me a frozen pizza when I don’t feel like getting out. Never pizzeria quality but good enough for me.
Tabasco
It's good to have low standards
I like how the uncooked freshly pressed dough falls onto the conveyor furthest away from the camera at 2:15. One second nothing is there, as the dough passes over, you see one fell half into the opening and half on the conveyor.
at 2:39, you can see that one of the pizzas in the back right didn't make it either. Assuming that suction cup is acting up, it's the same one as 2:15. :P
I bet their cost for each pizza is less than a dollar. Probably close to 50-cents.
How about *you* risk your money, your time and your business credit to start and run a business, then you can dictate the prices.
Well duh! It's called mass production and economies of scale. That's how business works to produce such large quantities so efficiently for low cost. Frozen pizzas at the store usually run about $4-$6.
@@rick3747 its all goyslop anyway
what if i told you your smartphone costs $100 to manufacture
What’s your point?
No wonder all frozen pizzas doesn’t look picture perfect like you see on the box. They just dump all of the ingredients on the pizza and prepare them to be cooked, wrapped, and packaged.
No duh 😂
You thought each one is hand tossed by an Italian chef?
Did you think every frozen pizza was hand made by artisans
We all go by our expectations when it comes to food that we don’t realize the reality. Our expectations are perfect, but the reality is crap.
@@misternewman1576thats how spoilt some of these people are.
I dont know why but every time I see robots working like that it freaks me out..
Yep, who's monitoring what the robots are doing back in the corner with spare parts?
I was wondering how they get back all the overflowed toppings efficiently… glad they showed it …. It would have kept me up for a week
Glad u said that. Still watching and OMG all the wasted dough and toppings
Thank you for making all this Pizza for us
Those machines are amazing.
Automation! Sounds like this Factory needs some LIber-Tea!
calibrated for the exact amount as it pours off a conveyor bouncing on and off the crust. Theres nothing precise about it LOL
Impressive machinery. Though, cleaning all this sh*t every night must be a nightmare.
They use an industrial caustic/acid wash. They run through hundreds of gallons of concentrated nitric acid daily
I used to deliver to all sorts of food plants and the frozen pizza plant was the best smelling one!
All that pizza dough it must be so good I cannot believe That they make this pretty much every single day Have fun guys just to What you know We are all supporting you So have fun
Very impressive! It's like a pizza orchestra!
This machine is epic. That’s what I’m impressed with. Whoever invents these. Are amazing. Frozen pizza. It’s okay.
he said, "ensuring each pizza receives the perfect balance of toppings"🤣🤣🤣🤣
great production line, my favorite cakes, thank you for letting me have this experience
This video's narration really had a Turbo Encabulator vibe to it.
I hate these crappy AI voice overs written by chatgpt
its the dude who tunes all these machines to work in sync is an industrial god
I worked in a pizza factory, the crusts were already made for us. We could buy the extra pizza's for a dollar or two.
You can even take a simple piece of pita bread any flat bread and make one.
Super cool to watch this whole process!
The boxes say these pizzas were made in Italy, but this factory is clearly in Turkey.
I noticed that too...Its probably an italian company outsourcing the production to Turkey. Cheap labor and all...
nothing better than watching processed food being made while fasting lmao
Yum!!! Just like grandma used to make!
This is pretty satisfying
Had to chuckle at the big fat hand just flinging a piece of dough.
6:38 the amount of chicken per pizza is something I'd like to see someday😂 usually there's like 7 tiny nuggets per pie hidden somewhere
I have to imagine when something goes wrong it's chaos in the factory. Just replacing a sensor or motor must be difficult at best. Still I have my frozen pizza favorites.
After seeing this I'll be making my own home-made pizza!!!!!
What brand are these machines ?
Seeing all the dead spots on the machines makes me understand where listeria comes from.
This explains who the pizzas are made. I'm just wondering where they got the picture of the pizza on the box. I want to know how that pizza was made.
Best frozen pizza I’ve had is Frecheta
Screamin Sicilian 😋
I have bought frozen pizzas, and opened them up only to find the toppings are all frozen to one side of the pizza.
I’ve always wondered how cardboard was made
Which machine adds the authentic cardboard taste?
That is so many machines and conveyor belts, omg..
So much effort to make a round pizza…..square takes just as good lol
I would be camping out by the dumpster for 2nds
Incredible video. So cool.
The pizza I learned to make looked delicious and valuable
I know I'm not the only one to see the dropped crust @ 2:16...
That one dough bothered me at 2:16 hanging off the edge
How often they clean those conveyor belts covered with food?
I find this fascinating.
one question hoooooooooooooow to keep all this mchines clean? how often are they cleaned and how!!!!!!
Man this factories probably a real pain in the ass to clean.
Y do u care
@@Hymz-kx2sgsame reason you cared enough to reply to their comment. Why did you care? People care about stuff.
@@RyanC50325People do care about stuff
wonder how often this is done. Though i have to admit i never heard of an recall of frozen Pies or any kind of bug that might be associated with them. Also what is not shown or said, what they are doing with the cut outs and offcuts or dough rounds that are being rejected. Throw them back into the mixing bowl or kneading machine? Same with the cheese, sauce or toppings. And have you ever seen what kind of -Salami - they are using for those toppings? Or how they are being sliced? One thing though is for sure. When doing Pizza at home, no round one, but a big square baking try. And no - original thin crust -. But thick crust dough... And that frozen - Ma this one - and - stone oven baked - and - Ma that one -, never made it into our shopping trolley. Maybe it does help though, that i am a Chef. And know what gunk out there is being produced.
Why is so expensive for crap
super great video sir ❤❤😍😍
Wow this is awesome. 😎
And now all they seem to be making is thin based not thick based pizzas any more, Bet it's because it's more convenient for them.
such impressive high tech wizardry, unfortunately I've never had a frozen pizza that was even close to as good as the absolutely worse pizzeria
That place was so clean it must have been first thing in the morning. And they seem to have had the employees hide from the cameras because that equipment needs to be monitored.
What is the price of this machine?
The background music sounds like "Get Shwifty"
Looks like an amusement park for pizza. 😂
I'm sure the pizzas are quite nice before they get to the freezing and wrapping stage. Explains why they wind up soggy. I prefer to buy topping-free bases and add the toppings myself.
How do they clean these machines? 😮
There's never enough cheese on em
How do they insert cheese in the crust edge on some frozen pizzas?
Remember when your grandma said this food was made with love? This is the inverse of her statement
I only recently started eating a few frozen pizzas, and that is because pizzeria pizzas just got to darn expensive to order from or for delivery. Most frozen ones are crap. In reality, I am just eating less and less.
This video is what happens when you have AI write you a script that doesn't make sense but are still too lazy to write one yourself.
Drinking game: take a shot every time he says ‘balls’
Awesome video
the narration on this is essentially. the dough moves through the factory via machines. the dough then moves further via machines and processess. after that process. the machines then move the dough... Felt like i was going crazy
All this technology to feed our hunger~~good late night snacks~~
Aaah... happy to see the real italian traditional way to make pizza
If you can find Rustica frozen pizzas Buy it, it's the best sauce and tons of cheese and they have stuffed crust as well, the best I've had in the way of frozen pizzas.
Amazing, thanks! 🍕🍕🍕
Heard the word perfect a lot......but never seen anything near perfection
Ya this channel is weird and I don't like it. They also said "delicately places the toppings" as a conveyor belt is just straight up dumping it on there.
and Generously dumps cheese on the pizza. No, half the cheese lands between the pizzas. We always have a bag of moz on hand for when we eat frozen pizza...because there is Never enough cheese on any of them!
Toppings going everywhere
I want to see how all these machines are cleaned every day
All of human ingenuity and technology put together to create.... wait for it... frozen garbage food. I have to say the factory looks impressive. Thanks for the video.
I always find myself adding extra cheese and peperoni but some frozen pizza is better then others and sometimes my extra toppings don't help.
Seems like a better process than whatever made the last frozen pizza I bought a few months ago. Its toppings were completely off center. Like an entire half of the crust was exposed and had no cheese or sauce on it. It was one of the more expensive brands in the supermarket, too. Lesson learned I suppose. Never overpay for frozen pizza. Just get a cheap one.
Well, I definitely have eaten thousands of them. Not so much anymore as I have gotten older lol! Side note: I find it truly amazing how we can design machines to do a particular task. I don't have an engineering mind like that.
8:01 You gatta wonder what's the most amount of times a single piece of cheese or other such topping has gone through the process of "being put on the pizza". Hahaha.
I have yet to find a frozen pizza that wasn't disgusting.
After the apocalypse the survivors will watch this video in awe that food was made in a factory
Fantastic technology. It really is.
How often are those belts and machines cleaned?
Daily
periodically ...
My question is, who made those pizza making machines
I like the ones where they’re not all in one corner or all in the middle.
This man said RISE AN DEVELOPE flavor 😆..what flavor..where the real cooks at haha
I look at this say to myself...self, I wonder how long did it take think up, research , design and build. Test redesign, build...ect.🤔
The individual frozen pizzas in the supermarket are the worst pizzas I've ever eaten. Eating the box would be an improvement. :/
I've never heard so many adjectives in my life.
The sad part is pre-internet we had a lot more time to cook stuff at home, but we didn't know how to do it easily. Making homemade pizza is pretty easy, but now we have less time.