This is the Coles Kitchen Stone Baked Pizza BBQ Meat Lovers, a refrigerated pizza featuring BBQ sauce, mozzarella, ham, bacon, pepperoni and beef mince.
The uncooked pizza featured a stone-baked pizza base with BBQ sauce (20.5%, already baked with the pizza base), alongside fresh uncooked mozzarella cheese (14%), ham (7%), bacon (7%), pepperoni (4.5%) and beef mince (1.2%).
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 had an enticing yeast-raised aroma alongside a sweet smoky aroma. Initial contact delivered a dry-to-touch, crisp base that was not at all soggy, with a pleasant tender chew that avoided the toughness sometimes found in frozen pizzas. The base supported the toppings well, with each remaining fresh and flavourful. The mozzarella provided stretchy softness against the firmer base and toppings, while the ham and bacon contributed smoky savouriness. The pepperoni added further flavour dimension through a tingling heat. The overall profile was perhaps a touch salty, but the combination of crispness, tenderness and well-integrated toppings was impressive for a store-bought pizza.
Overall, a refrigerated pizza with a sweet smoky flavour progression and integrated crisp-to-tender textural development, resulting in a cohesive and well-structured pizza.
This Coles Kitchen Stone Baked Pizza BBQ Meat Lovers contained 420 g. It was produced in Australia and purchased in Sydney, Australia in 2026.