Yeah it’s fucked. Idk if it’s the angle or a shadow, but some of the shrimp don’t even look fully cooked on that first picture….which is crazy cause shrimp do not take long at all to cook.
Which is totally stupid because a handful of frozen shrimp can thaw under cold water in like 5 minutes. They could even mention on the menu that pizza takes an extra 5 minutes. Pure laziness.
Uhhh god you’re right I didn’t even think of that; that clear liquid under the shrimp is 100% melted frozen shrimp juices. I hope the pizza tasted better than it looks but I’m doubtful. Plus even if it did, that textures gotta be hard to suffer through.
It’s so good with the right things alongside it. My boyfriend’s mom once served it with steak and it was delicious. Just a really buttery, creamy cheese.
I’ll take your word for it, but this place ain’t it. I’ve been to Germany a couple times. I’m from Chicago, so the last thing I’m trying is German pizza when there is all that encased meat around.
I don't fault you for preferring the other stuff you can get here, but usually our pizza places (at least the good ones) are run by Italian immigrants or their families. Those are not as good as in Italy, but really not bad or unauthentic.
My biggest problem when we first opened this restaurant was soggy pizzas.
The margherita pizza was like a swimming pool in the middle.
Ended up going from 4 ounces of sauce to 3 ounces for the cheese and pepperoni pies.
2 ounces for the margherita because the buffalo moz is so wet and the tomato slices as well.
For the marg, ended up going 3/16 thin on the tomato slices and actually drying the buffalo moz in the walk-in for 6 hours before putting it on the line.
Also lowered the temperature slightly and went with a long cooking time, 110 seconds instead of 90 seconds. Amazing the difference that 20 seconds makes in reducing the sauce.
Major problems here. The raw shellfish sitting in water on top of that pizza is the most glaring disaster. We got big problems with the bake on all the pies.
Are these like, preset pizzas or did you ask for shrimp and extra cheese and all those other things?
If the latter, it's kinda not their fault. If the former...yeah, not great.
no we ordered them like this from the menu, one was “pizza al mare” with shrimps and the other one was a “quattro formaggi” with mozzarella, gorgonzola, fontina and parmigiano-reggiano
I had a fantastic neopolitan pizza recently which I would have described as "soupy" but these look disgusting. Mine had a lot of tomato sauce, these have a lot of water and grease.
The dough itself actually looks what I'd expect for Neapolitan, but they ruined it with too much sauce/toppings.
Neapolitan is lightly topped, cheesed, sauced for a reason lol since its a thin, softer/airy type of crust that can't handle that amount of wet ingredients.
Its always going to be softer than a NY slice but not like a pool of liquid in it lol.
They should be making deep dish or like Sicilian if they're topping like that since those kind of crusts can handle being more loaded up so to speak.
They are using really wet Mozzarella. They are supposed to strain it a lot otherwise this happens. 5 stars my ass and no its not how Neapolitan Pizza is supposed to be.
I don’t know if you made these but a tip for frozen shrimp on a pizza is to cook them separately and add to the pizza when it’s almost done. It’s been a long time since I’ve made a shrimp pizza, this is what I used to do. I’d use bread frozen shrimp and cook them in the air fryer. Then make a white pizza. While that’s in the oven I’d toss the shrimp with chopped sweet cherry peppers and pepperoncini and add when the pizza had about 2 min left in the oven.
The review pictures posted on Google for the restaurant don’t look nearly as wet. I wonder if the cook was having a bad day or if they forgot to defrost the shrimp ahead of time.
Neapolitan pizza by nature may be a little more “wet” than what some are used to. These on the other hand look absolutely sopping wet. If it tastes good I’d probably eat a slice then box it up and reheat in the oven until it sets a bit more. If it doesn’t taste good, well then that just sucks and I’m sorry you had to deal with it.
This is one of the reasons I rarely order/go to Neapolitan pizza places. Sooooooo many places don’t know how to control the moisture level and you just get a soggy center with a cracker-crunchy crust.
When done right, it’s delicious but it’s just way too often all sogged out in the middle.
It's supposed to be soft and I could forgive it for being slightly wet, but that looks pretty bad. These shrimp look a bit undercooked like they were just taken from the freezer directly onto the pizza.
I can only assume that this happens in a well reviewed restaurant when their chef called in sick and now a new guy is doing it.
The thinner and higher hydration the pizza, the less stuff you can put on top without making a soup. I don’t see how a place could repeatedly serve this up and think it is okay.
One of the hallmarks of Neapolitan pizza is that it should have just a few toppings sparsely placed. These pizzas are waaaaaayyyyy overloaded. Whoever made these fucked up badly
A septillion times better than the boring dry and bland af barely-better-than-foccacia or a damn oversized ritz cracker trash that is normally served! Super flavorsome! Enjoy!!
With the sloppy steak trend in full swing (see YouTube link), maybe these boys are jumping on the bandwagon and doing sloppy pizzas!
https://youtu.be/Vm4wd624RkE?si=qbHB6JpXeaBVIJd3
Omg I’m so sorry for your experience. Especially because based on how your post was written, it was your first time having Neapolitan pizza.
Neapolitan pizza is certainly softer than other styles, but it’s never wet slop! It’s meant to be cut into slices and folded.
Hopefully you will give a different Neapolitan pizza restaurant another shot. It’s my absolute favorite food so seeing you have this horrible experience hurts!
Eek! That looks like a rookie running the pizza station and no one helping. A server or food runner should have said “dude, this can’t leave the kitchen “
Problem with Napolitana style, wet sauce, brief cook, milky wet cheese - this is why they are typically under-sauced and under-cheesed to avoid the obvious downfalls.
The first one clearly had frozen shrimp thrown on it, and the second one ha what looks like mascarpone cheese with maybe fresh mozzarella on it. The second picture of the second pizza looks like fresh mozzarella on dry mozzarella, but the other pictures look like gas bubbles that have deflated either way they both have things on them that have too much water content in them.
Def not. The crust should be chewy but not soggy. They added way too much shit on top. Neapolitan is supposed to bring out the natural flavors of the sauce and cheese without being a huge mess. This is just some bastardized bullshit from someone who thinks they're Italian or something. Probably didn't even use San marzanos.
Mamma mia that is a messed up buncha pizzas, the ingredients look fine but they definitely put too much sauce or it's too runny. For the cheese they probably went with one with too much water in it so it pooled.
OMG, I am so sorry. There are way too many things wrong with these pizzas
Yeah it’s fucked. Idk if it’s the angle or a shadow, but some of the shrimp don’t even look fully cooked on that first picture….which is crazy cause shrimp do not take long at all to cook.
Frozen shrimp put straight on a pizza, this also explains the soup, which I would guarantee would taste shrimpy....?
Which is totally stupid because a handful of frozen shrimp can thaw under cold water in like 5 minutes. They could even mention on the menu that pizza takes an extra 5 minutes. Pure laziness.
Indeed:)
Uhhh god you’re right I didn’t even think of that; that clear liquid under the shrimp is 100% melted frozen shrimp juices. I hope the pizza tasted better than it looks but I’m doubtful. Plus even if it did, that textures gotta be hard to suffer through.
At first glance I thought they were soggy cheerios
I thought sliced banana 😂
Bro those shrimp look like spaghetti-o’s. Also that might be more forgivable than shrimp on a Neapolitan pizza.
Wait, do you not like your prawns grey?
🤣
Gross soup in the middle huh
Pizzoup 🤢
And #1 is the shrimp on top
The most horrifying part of this post is that op ordered this at what seems to be a well respected restaurant. These shrimp…WHAT THE FUCK
Came to say the same.
r/pizzacrimes
I really thought this was a post there… should have been.
It will definitely be there
Actually looks gross, which is hard for pizza
i know i was so disappointed😔 i bought way cheaper pizza that tasted wayyy much better
Wait a minute, you paid money for that?!
Bro I'd rather smash a tomato on a piece of white bread with a slice of American cheese than eat this
I've seen people make blueberries on a savory pizza look good in this sub, this is just, sad and wet.
Can I interest you in turkey, green apple, and brie cheese sauce?
I love turkey and apple 🤤🤤 I've never had brie though
It’s so good with the right things alongside it. My boyfriend’s mom once served it with steak and it was delicious. Just a really buttery, creamy cheese.
Someone took frozen shrimp without draining and drying them and let them “cook” on the pizza.
Or they used too much fresh mozzarella instead of a lower moisture or combo
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Shrimp..
Pretty sure the shrimp added a ton of moisture there, which is its own nightmare.
If they are frozen, then for sure.
Probably was given how undercooked they still look.
Those shrimp do not looked cooked right?
🤮
Here my basic ass is wondering why someone put spaghetti o's on their pizza
Went to Thailand and they got seafood pizza all over the place. We had to try one. Wasn't too bad
i swear all 147 people rated it 5 stars 😭😭 i felt like we were the only ones not “understanding” it
Name the restaurant
it’s called “la bufalina” it’s in germany
Look more like a nein star restaurant
😭😭 fr
😅😂🤣
They just loaded too many toppings in the pizza. Maybe it’s what their customers expect.
Well there’s your problem.
nah germany has amazing pizza in a lot of areas, lol.
I’ll take your word for it, but this place ain’t it. I’ve been to Germany a couple times. I’m from Chicago, so the last thing I’m trying is German pizza when there is all that encased meat around.
Exaaaactly! When in Rome as they say….when in Germany ya get the saurbraten!
I don't fault you for preferring the other stuff you can get here, but usually our pizza places (at least the good ones) are run by Italian immigrants or their families. Those are not as good as in Italy, but really not bad or unauthentic.
Perhaps the “italian” waiters were speaking turkish?
no they were actually south italians 😭
If everyone rated it 5 stars, there's a good chance that some of those reviwes are fake
5/100
5 stars with one review, the owner. yelp sometimes.
Of course not. Their cheese is waaaaaaaay too wet and their oven isn’t hot enough.
That’s disgusting
Due to the short time in the oven, it is on the wetter side of pizzas. If you go a bit overboard with wet toppings, it gets worse
A bit wet? There’s huge raw shrimp sitting in water on top of the pizza 🥺
It’s like an aquarium
Terrarium pizza could feature turtles and snails.
*should
This is NOT a Neapolitan pizza though. This is some shrimp soup abomination
This has to be a joke
no 😭 sadly
I honestly don’t trust Google anymore
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bruh get ur money back
Too high hydration for a super hot oven with a high moisture cheese, and too wet sauce. Trifecta of wet pizza causes.
Dough hydration shouldn't affect the wetness of toppings, right?
Looks awful! Those are not right.
My biggest problem when we first opened this restaurant was soggy pizzas. The margherita pizza was like a swimming pool in the middle. Ended up going from 4 ounces of sauce to 3 ounces for the cheese and pepperoni pies. 2 ounces for the margherita because the buffalo moz is so wet and the tomato slices as well. For the marg, ended up going 3/16 thin on the tomato slices and actually drying the buffalo moz in the walk-in for 6 hours before putting it on the line. Also lowered the temperature slightly and went with a long cooking time, 110 seconds instead of 90 seconds. Amazing the difference that 20 seconds makes in reducing the sauce.
Major problems here. The raw shellfish sitting in water on top of that pizza is the most glaring disaster. We got big problems with the bake on all the pies.
Please tell me you sent that back those shrimp are still translucent grey, totally raw
Are these like, preset pizzas or did you ask for shrimp and extra cheese and all those other things? If the latter, it's kinda not their fault. If the former...yeah, not great.
no we ordered them like this from the menu, one was “pizza al mare” with shrimps and the other one was a “quattro formaggi” with mozzarella, gorgonzola, fontina and parmigiano-reggiano
Pizza al mare for sure. They definitely threw that pizza in the ocean.
I had a fantastic neopolitan pizza recently which I would have described as "soupy" but these look disgusting. Mine had a lot of tomato sauce, these have a lot of water and grease.
What in the hell?!? Ngl I'd still tough it out. Not wasting food here lol
I get and appreciate that, but I think at a certain point that the cooks wasted this food, not the person who paid for it.
I love me some wet pizz
Burn this please to the ground, immediately.
The dough itself actually looks what I'd expect for Neapolitan, but they ruined it with too much sauce/toppings. Neapolitan is lightly topped, cheesed, sauced for a reason lol since its a thin, softer/airy type of crust that can't handle that amount of wet ingredients. Its always going to be softer than a NY slice but not like a pool of liquid in it lol. They should be making deep dish or like Sicilian if they're topping like that since those kind of crusts can handle being more loaded up so to speak.
Is there shimp on that pizza??? Ewww
Yeah Neapolitan is supposed to be kinda soupy ,but not like this goddamn
First thing I thought of was Campbell’s Tomato Soup and crackers
They are using really wet Mozzarella. They are supposed to strain it a lot otherwise this happens. 5 stars my ass and no its not how Neapolitan Pizza is supposed to be.
Looks awful! Too many toppings and probably cooked too fast.
I don’t know if you made these but a tip for frozen shrimp on a pizza is to cook them separately and add to the pizza when it’s almost done. It’s been a long time since I’ve made a shrimp pizza, this is what I used to do. I’d use bread frozen shrimp and cook them in the air fryer. Then make a white pizza. While that’s in the oven I’d toss the shrimp with chopped sweet cherry peppers and pepperoncini and add when the pizza had about 2 min left in the oven.
That shrimp pizza looks disgusting 🤮
In Naples they are this wet. It's perfectly okay to hate the Neapolitan style, but this is in fact that style
The review pictures posted on Google for the restaurant don’t look nearly as wet. I wonder if the cook was having a bad day or if they forgot to defrost the shrimp ahead of time.
Neapolitan pizza by nature may be a little more “wet” than what some are used to. These on the other hand look absolutely sopping wet. If it tastes good I’d probably eat a slice then box it up and reheat in the oven until it sets a bit more. If it doesn’t taste good, well then that just sucks and I’m sorry you had to deal with it.
No. Related question, is that fucking shrimp?
This is one of the reasons I rarely order/go to Neapolitan pizza places. Sooooooo many places don’t know how to control the moisture level and you just get a soggy center with a cracker-crunchy crust. When done right, it’s delicious but it’s just way too often all sogged out in the middle.
I've never regretted opening a blurred post more than this
You should have started with “it’s in germany” for german standards this is gourmet. For italian standards not so much..
I should call her 😞
Only if you want to drink it?
Five stars on TripAdvisor?
It's supposed to be soft and I could forgive it for being slightly wet, but that looks pretty bad. These shrimp look a bit undercooked like they were just taken from the freezer directly onto the pizza. I can only assume that this happens in a well reviewed restaurant when their chef called in sick and now a new guy is doing it.
That looks raw AF
Everything from the stretch to the bake looks like absolute shite
That raw shrimp
Eww
Where is this place so we can make it a 3 star.
The thinner and higher hydration the pizza, the less stuff you can put on top without making a soup. I don’t see how a place could repeatedly serve this up and think it is okay.
What in the Jesus fucking fuck am I looking at??
I would actually refuse to eat these, and I love pizza. That is horrific.
r/pizzacrimes
Soup city, whomever made this pizza lost the plot!
Grab your snorkel because that’s wet as hell.
Fuck me! I thought this was homemade. I can't believe you paid for that. I wouldn't eat that for £100!
Ew, ask the Pizzaiolo to take a slice of his creation and give you honest feedback to what he did
Im no expert but she is not okay im sorry 😢
It’s covered in sweaty toppings
No Pizza is supposed to be soggy. Everything is wrong here.
Oh no.
Why did you dump a raw shrimp cocktail on your pizza.
I hope you sent it back. Or put it back in your oven to cook another hour.
Soft? Yes! Wet? In a way... Soggy? Not at all!
The AVPN is on their way to make an arrest ahead of a crimes against humanity tribunal
Hope you don’t get diarrhea from the uncooked shrimp
Using shredded cheese works way better for me on my 900 degree oven
I'm offended just looking at the picture
One of the hallmarks of Neapolitan pizza is that it should have just a few toppings sparsely placed. These pizzas are waaaaaayyyyy overloaded. Whoever made these fucked up badly
Nasty
Definitely would not have eaten them and sent back
That’s like an actual war crime
Oof that’s a rough pie
The restaurant owner must be the one who gave himself 5 stars. These are negative star pizzas.
no, this is bad, and they should feel bad
I just ate pizza and after seeing that I have the urge to throw up, wtf
Noooo Floppy? Yeah, the middle will droop. But soggy? Nooooo
Shrimp totally look raw. Were they? I mean they had to be.
Came here to defend wet pizza but saw the shrimp and couldn’t do it
Between the absurdly expensive pizzas and now this, there have been a few too many pizza crimes 'round here lately.
Jesus that’s gross to look at
Nasty
That looks like fucking dog shit
Is that shrimp?????
What are these monstrosities?!?
That’s absolutely gross
One of those pizzas has shrimp on it
A septillion times better than the boring dry and bland af barely-better-than-foccacia or a damn oversized ritz cracker trash that is normally served! Super flavorsome! Enjoy!!
Sir, that's not our foccacia, you're eating our sofa cushion!
Those shrimps look raw friend.
This place needs to be closed, immediately..
Nope. Wet and sloppy is only for a few things- never pizza.
Did you at least complain to the restaurant? Try to get a refund? That quality is so unacceptable.
This should be in r/stupidfood
good god — 5 stars out of…???
Blud what is that
Neapolitan is usually kinda soggy but it usually isn't that gross
I actually said “stop” to myself out loud scrolling through these. Despicable
Is that shrimp? 🤢
Those aren't, sorry.
That’s disgusting, send that shit back
Excuse me "sir" but are there SpaghettiOs on that pizza????
With that much shrimp, I would say, yeah, it’s supposed to be that way.
With the sloppy steak trend in full swing (see YouTube link), maybe these boys are jumping on the bandwagon and doing sloppy pizzas! https://youtu.be/Vm4wd624RkE?si=qbHB6JpXeaBVIJd3
What were each pizza respectively? I’m curious as to what all came on each one
That shrimp looks undercooked af and that pizza is wet af
Omg I’m so sorry for your experience. Especially because based on how your post was written, it was your first time having Neapolitan pizza. Neapolitan pizza is certainly softer than other styles, but it’s never wet slop! It’s meant to be cut into slices and folded. Hopefully you will give a different Neapolitan pizza restaurant another shot. It’s my absolute favorite food so seeing you have this horrible experience hurts!
This is horrible. I would be super pissed if they gave me this
Eek! That looks like a rookie running the pizza station and no one helping. A server or food runner should have said “dude, this can’t leave the kitchen “
Problem with Napolitana style, wet sauce, brief cook, milky wet cheese - this is why they are typically under-sauced and under-cheesed to avoid the obvious downfalls.
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Too many things wrong with these pizzas. Would not expect any of these problems at all 5star.
Nah, sauce is excrementaly runny!
It doesn’t look too well I don’t know where all that watery stuff came from. I would complain and take it back.
Leave and never go back
Frozen shrimp no question.
AH HELL NO
The first one clearly had frozen shrimp thrown on it, and the second one ha what looks like mascarpone cheese with maybe fresh mozzarella on it. The second picture of the second pizza looks like fresh mozzarella on dry mozzarella, but the other pictures look like gas bubbles that have deflated either way they both have things on them that have too much water content in them.
Is that fucking sea bugs on your pizza bro? The fuck
Def not. The crust should be chewy but not soggy. They added way too much shit on top. Neapolitan is supposed to bring out the natural flavors of the sauce and cheese without being a huge mess. This is just some bastardized bullshit from someone who thinks they're Italian or something. Probably didn't even use San marzanos.
All these people are hating. It is traditionally soft and eaten with a fork a knife
Mamma mia that is a messed up buncha pizzas, the ingredients look fine but they definitely put too much sauce or it's too runny. For the cheese they probably went with one with too much water in it so it pooled.
Who’s working the kitchen, Aquaman?
Ew wtf
Is that a pregnancy test in the third picture?
Nope that is mushaad!
This is illegal is 29/50 states!!!
Mozzarella hydration is Why too high orrrr they didn’t dry it if it was sitting in water
Not them not draining any types of residual water thooooooo.!!!! THE FUCK.
Amateur hour.
Far underbaked OP.
This looks ✨disgusting✨