Pizza express dough recipe

[Bonkersbeyonkers]

I’m cooking a recipe from Tesco's website - tuna melt calzone. The filling mixture for the calzone seems a massive amount for 3 of us. I have bought ready made pizza express dough and it says it can’t be frozen and shouldn’t be re-heated.

I can’t understand why it says no freezing but maybe that’s in its raw state. But it also says if there are leftovers don’t reheat just eat cold. I don’t want to be eating cold calzone all weekend!

If I make more calzones do you think I can throw caution to the wind, ignore the instructions on the packet, and freeze them, then reheat for another meal without killing us all?

pizza dough, in my experience, utilises yeast to rise. Not sure on the science but I don't often ever see bread or other yeasted dough recipes recommended for freezing before cooking - only freezing when fully or par-baked. So I presume there could be issues with the rise if the dough is frozen.

I don't know why reheating would be a problem though, I would do it personally and wouldn't have thought to check the packet.

I would happily freeze the dough once it’s been cooked. I imaging the dough has been frozen once so can’t be refrozen raw, but that will reset on cooking.

I’d also reheat it. The manufacturer won’t have tested it so can’t claim it’s safe, but it will be fine. A roast chicken will also have ‘do not reheat’ printed on it, but look how many (hot) recipes there are for leftover roast chicken.