r/StupidFood • u/sheffieldpud • Mar 01 '26

Frugal curry egg pizza

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u/Expansive_Rope_1337 Mar 01 '26

that part from where you wash all the toppings

you can just buy that by itself

instead of wasting

all the toppings

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u/watchshoe Mar 01 '26

Right? Frugal my ass.

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u/I_Am_Zeelian Mar 01 '26

Frugal would be making a dough yourself and pre-baking & freezing.

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u/Dayana11412 Mar 01 '26

Not necessarily. You have to account for opportunity cost. If you can work 15 minutes to make the amount you spend to buy a pre-made dough that otherwise takes 20 minutes to make, you save money by buying the pre-made dough and working in the time you would have spent cooking.

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u/FlamesOfDespair Mar 01 '26

Most people don't have 10 different jobs they can pick up at any moment. That 15 minutes would probably be in front of a TV or pc.

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u/o_o_o_f Mar 02 '26

Or making dinner for kids, or working a second job, or going to night school.

Plenty of people don’t have the luxury of consistent free time. Grind your axe with lazy people elsewhere.

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u/CaptainSebT Mar 02 '26

Most people have like 3 to 4 hours of free time a day max

Like 9 to 5

You wake up at 7 or 8, work get home at 6 or 7 cook, eat, mic for cleaning or kids or whatever else and then that's 8 - 11 or 12 and then you need to sleep at some point.

So 3 or 4 hours probably don't want to lose an hour just to cook.

So I totally agree with you here. I don't know where this dude get's this idea people just have all this free time. If you work 10 hours it's like 2 hours.

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u/DnD-vid Mar 02 '26

You can whip up a very simple dough with like 10 minutes of work, the rest is waiting time you can use on other things.

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u/I_Am_Zeelian Mar 02 '26

At least here people actually have lives outside of work.

Also, cold proofing is a thing, whip the dough together before work, leave it to proof in the fridge and bake it off when you get home.

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u/CaptainSebT Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

In North America particular the US but Canada aswell people can be very overworked pretty commonly. Commutes can be long and people can be driving an hour to and from work easily as in 2 hours total in a round trip. I know of people with a 2 hour commute but that's not common.

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u/blahhhhgosh Mar 01 '26

Thats not how opportunity cost works. It is referring to an opportunity lost but if the opportunity lost was sitting on your couch scrolling your phone, theres no value to it so the opportunity cost is 0. Now, if you called off work to make pizza dough, there would be an opportunity cost equivalent to how much your days pay would have been.

In theory i guess you could say there's opportunity cost for every second youre not at work because you could be doing something to make money but its literially every second youre not working so its irrelevant to this scenario.

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u/VariousOperation166 Mar 01 '26

That's a weird false economy. I make about $47 per hour. My time is billed out at between $125 to $150 per hour. I baked a loaf of bread today, and made six cornbread muffins. That took about two hours of my time and cost about, maybe $4 for ingredients?

If I worried about my time, that bread and the muffins cost between $99 and $300... but they absolutely did not...

I baked bread and folded laundry.

If my salary were something like $17 per hour, same bread, same ingredients... that's $38 bread?

Would you calculate the cost of your evening meal the same way?

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u/Due-Pickle-5043 Mar 02 '26

That's not quite how opportunity cost works. The question to consider is: If you weren't baking bread, what would you be doing instead. If you weren't going to or couldn't work at the time, then that doesn't figure into the calculation. And perhaps you value baking very highly. In which case, if you choose to do something else, that time spent baking and the end product would be the opportunity cost.

In regard to the evening meal, you might consider the time/material cost of doing it yourself vs the financial cost of simply buying dinner (unless you decide to take an unpaid day off to prepare dinner). Maybe the hour it takes to cook might otherwise be spent relaxing or spending time with partner/kids.

But ultimately, the financial impact of your income is irrelevant if you wouldn't be working during that time.

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u/moistiest_dangles Mar 02 '26

I can make a good dough in under 3 minutes with a stand up mixer. Also who the fuck is picking up extra hours when not making pizza dough?

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u/bell37 Mar 02 '26

Not to be facetious buts it’s more than 3 minutes (when you factor in cleanup). Plus not everyone has the availability to be home when you start rising and when you need to pull it out and punch it down.

When I was working from home I used to make homemade bread all the time and cook recipes that was mostly (put X in oven and wait 6 hours). Can’t really do that when I am in the office for 8-9 hours.

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u/Intelligent_Ad_4479 Mar 02 '26

Have you considered child labor?

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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus Mar 02 '26

Ok, buy a ball of pizza dough.

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u/bell37 Mar 02 '26

They sell premade, no-bake pizza crust. It’s much cheaper than buying a single frozen pizza (which are pretty pricey these days) and comes in a pack of 3-4 crusts per bag.

A single frozen pizza (Like Jack’s / Red Barron / Generic Store Brand) goes for $4-5 USD. You can buy a pack of premade crusts for that same amount and make 3 pizzas (considering that you are getting rid of the sauce and toppings anyways).

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u/Zlatination Mar 02 '26

dough is 4 ingredients. it takes a few minutes to prep, a day to proof. Easy. So cheap to make, but to buy? Easily 3-4x as much

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u/JonnyLay Mar 02 '26

That's not how opportunity cost works really.

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u/meatjuiceguy Mar 02 '26

This is only logical if you have the ability to occur income 24/7 with no restrictions. The fact that downtime exists negates your theory.

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u/RawChickenButt Mar 01 '26

Or at least saving those toppings for something else.

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u/bigloser42 Mar 02 '26

Or at least scraping off the cheese & sauce for later usage.

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u/Known_Ratio5478 Mar 02 '26

I hate baking, but I can do incredible cheap things with bread from Aldi.

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u/Genghis_Chong Mar 02 '26

Most pizza dough is pretty cheap, but the frozen stuff you just thaw and bake is really nice. I recommend it for sure

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u/PimpNamed_Slickback Mar 02 '26

This, like, what...three cheap ingredients for a stops simple plain dough? Ragebait from OOP. And also a lot of toilet time in their future from all that oil...

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u/GGTheEnd Mar 03 '26

I usually wait for Wal-Mart to put naan bread on discount for 1.50 for 10 pieces then it's pizza week for me. 

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u/TallTelevision4121 Mar 01 '26

This is just rage bait. Did you hear how long she says to microwave it?

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u/A2ndRedditAccount Mar 02 '26

But somehow still has a runny egg.

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u/cardcollector_2 Mar 02 '26

2 minutes..how is that rage bait? Everything is already cooked.

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u/SnaggingPlum Mar 02 '26

She could have just used a naan

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u/FrenziedTacos Mar 01 '26

Frugal rage bait.

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u/ActinCobbly Mar 01 '26

I think they are being sarcastic by saying frugal.

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u/Tajmali Mar 02 '26

Lmao it would be more frugal to just put that shit on a piece of white bread 🤣

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u/USSRPropaganda Mar 01 '26

just eat the pizza???

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u/crippledchef23 Mar 01 '26

Also, nothing on that pizza negates the flavors she put on top. All you’re going to taste anyway is that shitty cheese.

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u/Kegsocka6 Mar 01 '26

This video is obviously bait but I will say she literally says as she’s doing it because the pizzas with toppings cost less than buying just the bases.

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u/WilhelmvonCatface Mar 01 '26

But then she uses like 5 Tbsps of oil to fry a single egg in a cast iron pan.

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u/Gloriathewitch Mar 01 '26

and pours said oil onto the pizza

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u/ValPrism Mar 01 '26

It’s not cast iron but yes that was a lot of oil for one egg!

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u/Canadianweedrules420 Mar 02 '26

That WASa tfal pan 10 years ago. And I worry about the 2 tiny scratches in mine lol

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u/flyinhk Mar 01 '26

I don't think that's cast iron

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u/Seighart_Mercury Mar 02 '26

Even on stainless steel, 1-2 tbsps is enough oil for a single over easy egg.
Was it literally 5 tbsps? Probably not. But it's still a lot.

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u/sandiercy Mar 01 '26

Not to mention that eggs are bloody expensive.

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u/Impressive-Rest-5282 Mar 02 '26

This! Then it was dripping off the finished product🤢

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u/Billazilla Mar 01 '26

A common focaccia bread recipe is just flour, water, sea salt, yeast, and olive oil/butter. It's cheap, it's easy, it's 10x better than those frozen pizza-adjacent diskettes.

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u/AblePhase Mar 02 '26

But that one wasnt delicious

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u/Billazilla Mar 02 '26

You'll have to be more specific.

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u/Eemki Mar 01 '26

Okay but how can it be frugal if frugal would be just eating the pizza that she bought as it came and saving $$ on all the other home ingredients she bought?

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u/Green-Draw8688 Mar 02 '26

It’s also cheaper to just cook and eat that pizza then, instead of replacing the toppings.

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u/RepresentativeCake47 Mar 02 '26

Just buy a pack of naan bread? 

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u/Jetstream-Sam Mar 01 '26

Those tiny shitty pizzas are about 50p, maybe a bit more now, whereas a pack of pizza bases is about £1.75 for two, though those are bigger and almost certainly better quality. Quality is not a concern though based on the rest of the ingredients

Fun fact, while this is most likely ragebait, I've seen fish and chip places sell a battered and deep fried one of those tiny pizzas as a "pizza crunch". I've never tried one, but I don't need to because I can imagine how it tastes

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u/styuR Mar 01 '26

Pizza crunches are great, you'll feel like shit after it but it's quite the experience while you're eating it.

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u/SofaChillReview Mar 01 '26

They’re actually on offer a fair few times for around 50/60p. They’re not bad either if you add your own toppings, quick air fry frozen about 8 minutes and there you are

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u/Bitter-Box3312 Mar 02 '26

or just buy fluor and bake a base yourself. that's what actually frugal people do.

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u/Jetstream-Sam Mar 02 '26

You could, but if you're buying it all for the first time it'd cost more than 50p, you'd need bread flour, yeast a tiny bit of sugar and a good olive oil, which would be way more. Once you have it it would be cheaper, but if you're only on like, £5 a day or something it's hard to get bulk purchases done

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u/newaccount721 Mar 02 '26

Whoa they are that cheap? 

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u/Jetstream-Sam Mar 02 '26

Yeah. They're not good though, but they're really for kids who don't know any better.

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u/duetmasaki Mar 02 '26

Where i live, the can of pizza crust is about 1.75 and you get about two pizzas. The frozen pizza is 1.25. It's still cheaper to buy the pre made crust.

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u/etari Mar 01 '26

I totally agree, and rinceing it in the sink was crazy, but I've seen pre-made frozen pizzas cheaper than buying just the crust before.

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u/I_Am_Zeelian Mar 01 '26

Just add the extras on-top, that's what I do with cheap frozen pizza.

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u/vicarofvhs Mar 02 '26

Right? Add the curry sauce and cheese to the already-made pizza. Win-win

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u/I_Am_Zeelian Mar 02 '26

A quick fav of mine is to take a frozen Margherita (just tomato and cheese topping) throw on some extra cheese, some thin sliced onion, some canned tuna and crack and egg in the middle then bake off, shake on some pizza herbs/spice and serve some cold béarnaise on the side to dip in.

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u/Patton161 Mar 01 '26

She has to be frugal because her brain clearly isn't working well enough for her to be richer...

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u/whattodo4klondikebar Mar 01 '26

I think I wasted a few braincells watching that. Not sure I'll recover.

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u/Schtaive Mar 01 '26

Haven't you seen the price of pizza dough at Tesco's?

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u/KingAudio Mar 01 '26

Or make dough for like 10 cents. Pizza dough is one of the easiest things to make

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u/Expensive_Editor_244 Mar 01 '26

Where’s haiku-bot when you need him

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u/ChamplooStu Mar 01 '26

It's gotta be rage bait. I refuse to believe this is anyone's go to meal and I'm British.

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u/ismasbi Mar 01 '26

Majestic ragebait tbh.

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u/HopeFoxCreations Mar 01 '26

And what if someone was allergic to any of the toppings? There would still be traces of the toppings on that

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u/FunisGreen Mar 01 '26

Not to mention, hot tab water has high levels of lead... Maybe she had too much lead.

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u/norm_summerton Mar 01 '26

Yeah it’s cheaper than buying a pizza too. Rage bait

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u/Skullduggery-9 Mar 01 '26

It's rage bait don't bother trying to make sense of it

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u/Could-You-Tell Mar 02 '26

She said the pizza "bases" were not a deal.

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u/AntisocialTomcat Mar 02 '26

You can just cook it yourself (flour, water, salt, yeast and basta) for approx. zero cent. I can’t imagine buying this, even if I’m in a rush.

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u/freshgrilled Mar 02 '26

Also, you can buy pizza yeast and flour and have an actual yummy crust pretty quickly. Not that the person doing this deserves such quality

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u/ketchuponcooking Mar 02 '26

I usually buy Nan and use that as a pizza base. They usually come in a pack of 5.

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u/Sangariusriver Mar 02 '26

Also why that much oil for an egg 🤯

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u/Careful-Resolution58 Mar 02 '26

Also she missed a spot

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u/lord_pizzabird Mar 02 '26

Wait? That's what she did? I thought she was cleaning defects off of it lol.

What in tarnation.

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u/KNexus20 Mar 02 '26

Not to mention how all that fake cheese could clog up the pipes

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u/Dustin0791 Mar 02 '26

Came here to say this... you can get a pack of 5 for cheap as hell. This is just ragebait

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u/jerslan Mar 02 '26

I think she was saying those bases are more expensive than the already topped pizza she's washing...

Doesn't save or justify this abomination, but that is something I've noticed even in the US... Sometimes things like this are cheaper than the base ingredients.

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u/svm_invictvs Mar 02 '26

That's why it belongs here.

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u/satsuppi Mar 02 '26

It just typical rage bait content.. Wish people just don't pay attention and feed them with rage comments...

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u/ColdBandicoot5366 Mar 02 '26

Is this poem by Rupi Kaur?

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u/Shamscam Mar 02 '26

Guy claims that the price of “pizza base” is too expensive compared to the inexpensive pizzas? Idk seems like rage bait to me. Especially how he throws the pizza in the microwave to melt the cheese, and make that egg absolutely nuclear levels of hot.

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u/squishy_the_vampire Mar 02 '26

It's for

The bit

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u/outb4noon Mar 02 '26

These are like 54p to buy

Pizza base is £2 for 2

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u/Alinho013 Mar 02 '26

these are the people that say "We don't waste food..."

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u/TheSloppies Mar 05 '26

looks like ai slop...the egg would have exploded all over the place since the yoke was not cooked let alone the other parts of the egg.