This is the Coles Kitchen Stone Baked Pizza BBQ Chicken & Bacon, a refrigerated pizza featuring barbecue sauce, mozzarella, ham and chicken breast.
The uncooked pizza featured a stone-baked base with barbecue sauce (20.5%, already baked onto the base), fresh mozzarella (14.5%), roasted chicken breast, bacon (7%) and onion.
Preparation involved baking in a fan-forced oven preheated to 200°C, placing the pizza directly onto the centre shelf for 11 minutes.
Fresh from the oven, the base released an enticing yeast-raised aroma alongside sweet-savoury notes. Initial contact delivered a crisp, dry-to-touch base that avoided sogginess, with a pleasant, tender chew that steered clear of the toughness sometimes found in frozen pizzas. The base supported the generous toppings well, although their distribution could have been more even. Mozzarella provided stretchy softness against the firmer base and toppings, while the bacon contributed smoky savouriness. The roasted chicken, however, was dry and stringy, adding little to the overall flavour or texture. Pineapple would have provided a welcome sweet-acidic contrast to the barbecue sauce and smoky bacon.
Overall, a competent refrigerated pizza let down by dry, stringy chicken and uneven topping distribution.
This Coles Kitchen Stone Baked Pizza BBQ Chicken & Bacon contained 410 g. It was produced in Australia and purchased in Sydney, Australia, in 2026.