Aldi is giving Sydneysiders a taste of the future with the launch of a brand new Pizzabot at their North Sydney Corner Store. In what is promising to be the way of the future for pizza making, the Aldi vending machine will make pizza for customers in just two minutes.
Who cares how it looks?
Plenty of shit pizza joints around. It really is disappointing how bad most of the pizzas in Australia are. Maybe dominos is to blame?
That may be, but this is basically just another shit pizza joint charging even more money for even less product than Domino's or Pizza Hut. The difference is, these don't even have the decency to use "fresh" ingredients to make the pizza on demand. If I wanted a reheated frozen pizza I'd buy a Dr Oetker or Mccain's.
Aldi have Italian made stone baked pizza bases which make great pizza bases if you have s small pizza oven ….. Brevile make the Pizaola oven at $1000 bit pricey ….. there are ways to make great pizza …… but Dr Oetker and a home oven isn't the way ….. if Aldi do it right it might be OK.
A lot of products are designed for your home ovens which don't get hot enough and have little control over top and bottom temperatures …… trade off due to lots of different ovens, in commercial setting, they can control the pizza base and the oven for optimum results.
@garage sale: It's a precooked reheated pizza slice. There is no way this is worth the asking price, and there is no way it's significantly better than cooking up a Dr Oetker.
@[Deactivated]: if you read the details ….. "reaching wood fired pizza oven temperatures" that is higher than your home oven, and would burn your Dr Oetker which is made to be reheated at lower temp in a home oven ….. the Aldi one is 2 minutes …… won't do a Dr Oetker in 2 mins in home oven due to lower temp.
@garage sale: Irrelevant. It's not a fresh pizza. It's a chilled reheated one. The quality is not even slightly comparable to a decent fresh pizza. I'm well aware of how hot a pizza oven can get to, and for less than $9 I could make a whole pizza in the Ooni.
@garage sale: The cheapest model is about $500 or so. I bought the more expensive model which was about $1000 though because it's large enough to make 17" pizzas in.
@[Deactivated]: I can make an amazing pizza for probably less than $3 and that is using good quality ingredients Caputo flour, mutti polpa tomatoes, fresh basil from garden and fresh mozzarella. Cooked in my $99 Coles Monro oven. Comes out better than any pizzeria near me..
They had these in malls in USA. Overpriced and not worth it.
“They” also had these 10 years ago, also around North Sydney region.
Edit: here it is/was https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/food/pizza-gio-v… Interesting its also Bondi based https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/08/taste-test-australias-…
promising to be the way of the future for pizza making
lol
I doubt these pizzas a made fresh…
No, they're not at all. Theyre precooked in Bondi.
I dunno what this "robot" vending machine of the future is supposed to be doing but it's obviously not much.
I dunno what this "robot" vending machine of the future is supposed to be doing
I appears to be a giant microwave…
The machine if you look at pictures seems to be either grill elements or Infra red, defintely not microwave …..
what do we define as fresh …… coles and woolies have "fresh thawed" seafood, so was frozen, is thawed but hasn't been cooked …. so it's fresh because it hasn't been cooked ? But it has been frozen ?
what do we define as fresh
not pre-made…
Must admit, impressive technology, would like to see it, may be not buy it thou..
I don't think heating up a pizza is impressive technology in 2022.
edit: I'm getting negged and can't help but repeat it's just impressive that heating up a pre-made pizza in North Sydney is an impressive technology to some in 2022.
Anyone can heat up a pizza at home centuries ago, but If you watched the video in the link you would think to appreciate the complex automated tasks of the machine from selecting product, paying by card, to extreme heating the pizza in 2 min, to turning the pizza while cooking to placing it in a container to dispensing to customer. All this is done in a supermarket full of people, in safe manner. And the pizza looked not bad with good airy crust. I did not say I would buy the pizza from there or this was a good deal!! And BTW, I make my own pizza at home from scratch so not customer of Pizza Hut or Domino.
I buy Toscano pizza bases, no tomato or cheese on them and stone baked in Italy, they work great in the clam shell pizza ovens, and much better than Dominos …… though possibly not cheaper, but better.
These Aldi ones look small, BUT it's an Australian robotic company and maybe in the future the pizzas get bigger, or the price drops, it's designed for convenience not $ per kg to compete with Dominos, and it's not your normal Aldi store where the wait can be long , it looks like "Aldi Express type store ?"
Future might be at service stations "do I buy a pie or a slice of pizza ?" ……
The overheads of supplier putting pizzas into the machine will never make it as cheap as dominos where they make the bases on premises.
@garage sale: This is probably +$100k machine, I don't think Aldi doing this to make profit, it is mainly for PR and publicity.
Uhmm… this is NOT a bargain post. I am negging this post - unless someone can show me how this is a better bargain than another pizza joint - value (size, taste) wise.
Are we 'Oz Pay Premium 4 Novelty food'?
Normally, I don't want slander, but this is a fair comment.
How is a precooked pizza for $9 a deal an ozbargain?
Judging by the advertisements on the pizzabot this is actually just a $9 slice and not an actual pizza 😂
You know those ones that cost like <$2 at the school canteen, bet it's around that size.
If you look at the page, you can see it in someone's hands. It's like a hand-length and a half long, and a hand-width wide. Very poor value.
costo have the cheapest pizza $ per kg of slice ….. if you just want pizza …..
MMMmmmmm I can taste the German efficiency.
it won't be german …. they have vending machines for pizza already in Italy …. this machine is Australian made, be interesting.
This is something you'd maybe pay for the novelty once but never actually seriously use.
Japan is full of machines like this, only they have a lot more character and are actually decently priced.
We should import some from japan to here though
Gas ovens? The dark side of Aldi.
LOL
lol, a product announcement isn't a deal
For the size, and the fact that it's just a frozen pizza reheated, $9 is a pretty steep price. Domino's and Pizza Hut are hardly the pinnacle of quality, but at least they make the pizza on demand for $6.
On demand pizza machines are starting to appear in Europe including Italy , it's not that it can't be done well, the question is will Aldi do it well ? It seems it a Sydney company that makes the machines, so they can optimise the machine and the base and amount of toppings ….. they reckon it reaches wood fired oven temperatures …..
Aldi just outsources it to a company called Placer Robotics. They're not even planning to launch it in any other stores, it's clearly a publicity stunt.
This is literally just a PR post. There's no deal here.
Would be ok for like $4, forget $9.
$5 with a can of drink. I worked in North Sydney for a loooong time and there's definitely demand for good value lunch there.
How much a can of coke at coffee shops in North Sydney, $3?
Wtf? these should be $3-4 max lol
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Looks very average and I don't think $9 is value for money at all..