Costco Thread 2022

I dunno. Personally, I would substitute the word most for all.

This speaks to my point. I too had this same reaction and do to this day. An abomination if there ever was one. I can’t even stand pineapple on pizza. Wouldn’t touch it, hence my replacement of the word all. True story, when I first came to Taiwan, lo these many years ago, Domino’s and Pizza Hut were almost the only sources for pizza of any kind. There was a western-style bar near Shida that offered “pizza” on their menu that turned out to be something like a hamburger bun with ketchup and sliced yellow cheese made in a toaster oven.

For a while I used to get Pizza Hut and Domino’s, especially when they had a two for one deal on takeout but the last time I ate Domino’s the pizza tasted like the box it came in. Pizza Hut is basically necessity only, when I’ve run out of my freezer stash.

It’s funny about the negative reactions on Costco pizza here because it is my go-to pizza. I think it depends on what kind of pizza you are used to, for me, it is NY-style thicker crust. I buy a couple of cheese pizzas on every trip to Costco and bag them and freeze them. Then I make a batch of chopped, roasted veggies to top the slices with.

This is a good tip. My mother used to use this method. I haven’t done it for a long time, usually heating in the oven, I’ll have to try this again.

Never tried their boxed frozen stuff so maybe should give that a try.

Yes, apart from liking it, the large Costco pizza price of NT$300 is a good deal.

Yeah, as I said, it was almost a pizza desert back when. Then Alleycat’s opened their first place to much fanfare and now I consider them a subpar choice. Is there a Best Pizza thread somewhere on Forumosa?

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Oh yeah, going back to 2002, and still active. Here’s the most recent specific recommendation, although there are more recent posts:

The two main ways I use came from Cook’s Illustrated a while ago. The first method does work better for melting the cheese, but if I’ve just got one slice it’s not worth the oven time.

  • For a few slices: Place the cold slices on a rimmed baking sheet, cover the sheet tightly with aluminum foil, and place it on the lowest rack of a cold oven. Then set the oven temperature to 275 degrees (135C) and let the pizza warm for 25 to 30 minutes.

  • For just a slice or two, place a nonstick skillet over medium heat and add dried oregano. Place the pizza in the skillet and reheat, covered, for about 5 minutes.

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Thanks, I’ll check it out. Should have searched myself but you are quicker.

Very good, thanks. I guess this would work for frozen as well as cold. Never heard of Cook’s Illustrated, I’ll check them out.

(BTW, hope you got through the week OK, and are feeling better. I’m recovering from my week by lazily couch surfing.)

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It seems like ground beef prices have gone up? At the Zhonghe branch today every pack was NT$950-1050, compared to the NT$650-800 I usually pay.

(I don’t pay much attention to the price per kilo, but it’s now NT$349/kg if that means anything to anyone.)

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yes, used to be 249 or 289 per kg.
i havent seen it at all in Guandu branch the lsst 2 times i went.

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That’s a pretty big increase! Might have to reduce the diameter of my burgers. :worried:

My Costco shop has definitely gone up. 4 to 5 k is now 6 to 7.

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That was great. Before that, there was Mr. Paco. That’s the first place I remember viewing positively

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US food inflation still seems to be higher than TW. What gives?

I wish I had some old receipts to compare. I’m not buying anything too different.

The ones I can remember:

milk 229 to 269 for two.

Flour went from 120 to 129.

Olive oil looked expensive compared to before.

My wife buys a lot of vegetables and meat. I never paid attention to the individual prices, just the total.

You are right though. It can’t be up nearly 50 percent.

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Unsalted butter went up quite a lot after the prolonged shortage a few months back. (Maybe salted did too, but I don’t remember.)

Those 3x1kg boxes of bread/AP flour are still pretty reasonably priced, though I’ve mostly been buying the organic AP one recently, which is a bit more expensive anyway.

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On a different topic, the toy section was MIA at Costco today. My kid wasn’t happy.

My only guess is that the space on the ship is being taken by food first.

Cheap, especially since they last a year. I go hot and cold on baking so I can sometimes go a few months not making anything. Don’t like chucking away out of date things.

Which Costco? XiZhi and one in Kaohsiung that I can’t remember the address of both moved their toy location, maybe seasonable and maybe in all Costco’s.

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??? Moved to where? Whoops!!

From the entrance walking in it’s way over on the right hand wall, around the aisles with the automotive stuff/washing up liquid sort of area.

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That explains it. We normally walk down there for a quick get away after grabbing some beer but we went back over to the walking dead side today because we forgot something.

Think I might keep the fact that there is still a toy section secret though.

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I don’t like their ground beef because it’s ground way too fine.

Don’t buy it then. :man_shrugging: It works for me - I don’t have an issue with how it’s ground.

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Went today. Similar shop to normal. Todays cost was $8,000. Normally we spend about $5,000. Ouch!

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