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How many times can you re-heat pizza?

Nov 14, 2012#1

strawman

Considering the method you most commonly use to re-heat pizza, how many times can you re-heat it before you refuse to eat it?

Nov 14, 2012#2

Shakey

None of the above. Left over pizza must be eaten cold.

Nov 14, 2012#3

SpecialKO

You can re-heat it once. The crust might stop being entirely edible (depends on the dough), but the main part of the pie is still 100% edible.

After that, it's like plastic.

Nov 14, 2012#4

WasabiPoptart

Once - because there is none left after that.

Nov 14, 2012#5

Gared

Pizza from a major chain cannot be reheated... it tastes worse than cardboard after a single reheating and gets too dried out to even consider reheating again. Homemade deep-dish pizza can be reheated once, in the microwave, one piece at a time - but you have to reheat it until the cheese melts and slides off the pizza onto the plate and the crust gives off steam. I've never tried to reheat Chicago style deep-dish pizza, because I've only had one occasion to eat it, and I didn't have any leftovers.

Nov 14, 2012#6

drifter

Gared said:
Pizza from a major chain cannot be reheated... it tastes worse than cardboard after a single reheating and gets too dried out to even consider reheating again. Homemade deep-dish pizza can be reheated once, in the microwave, one piece at a time - but you have to reheat it until the cheese melts and slides off the pizza onto the plate and the crust gives off steam. I've never tried to reheat Chicago style deep-dish pizza, because I've only had one occasion to eat it, and I didn't have any leftovers.

Eugh. If you must reheat, reheat in a pan. Toaster oven works, too.

Nov 14, 2012#7

Hylian

You can never re-heat pizza that would be sacrilegious

Nov 14, 2012#8

Ravenpoe

You can't walk into the same river twice.

Nov 14, 2012#9

Gared

drifter said:
Eugh. If you must reheat, reheat in a pan. Toaster oven works, too.

nope, sorry, the home-made deep-dish pizza that my father and I make doesn't reheat well at all in a pan or in a toaster oven, only in the microwave.

Nov 14, 2012#10

sixpackshaker

Ravenpoe said:
You can't walk into the same river twice.

yes you can... just not the same water.

Nov 14, 2012#11

Wahad

Once. Just like with everything else that can be reheated. If you have more than you can eat in one reheating, divide in portions before freezing.

Cold pizza is pretty good though, so there's that.

Nov 14, 2012#12

drifter

Gared said:
nope, sorry, the home-made deep-dish pizza that my father and I make doesn't reheat well at all in a pan or in a toaster oven, only in the microwave.

Does not compute. :confused:

Nov 14, 2012#13

North_Ranger

Homemade or store-bought? Once for the latter, none for the former.

Nov 14, 2012#14

GasBandit

I've never had to reheat pizza more than once. Generally after initial consumption, the leftovers are reheated a slice or two at a time while the rest stays in the fridge. Are there people who actually put an entire leftover pizza in to just eat two slices and then re-refridgerate it?

Nov 14, 2012#15

Frank

GasBandit said:
I've never had to reheat pizza more than once. Generally after initial consumption, the leftovers are reheated a slice or two at a time while the rest stays in the fridge. Are there people who actually put an entire leftover pizza in to just eat two slices and then re-refridgerate it?

This basically.

Nov 14, 2012#16

Officer_Charon

Debby Desyre said:
My boyfriends eats it cold.
I think that's pretty gross!

The heretic must be purged to save her from her false teachings...

Nov 14, 2012#17

sixpackshaker

If pizza is fresh, it needs to be hot. If it is leftover, it needs to be cold.

Nov 14, 2012#18

Covar

I don't understand the question. Why would I ever need to reheat more than once?

Nov 14, 2012#19

PatrThom

Pizza can be reheated an infinite number of times, by definition.
However, the maximum number of times before I will refuse to eat it is usually about twice...not because I have anything against it being reheated, but because of the amount of time the pizza would need to hang around to get to a 3rd reheating is usually also enough that it would not be worth eating at that point. Thus:

Day 1: Fresh pizza. W00t! (nom nom nom)
Day 2-4: A bit dry. A quick zap will fix that! (nom nom nom)
Day 5-7: Ooo, that's old. I'll reheat it enough to make it safe to eat again. (nom nom ouch hot nom)
Day 8+: I'm not eating that.

--Patrick

Nov 14, 2012#20

GasBandit

So you actually DO reheat the whole pizza just to eat part of it? Why not just zap it a piece or two at a time?

Nov 14, 2012#21

Officer_Charon

Leftover pizza? What is this wizardry?

Nov 14, 2012#22

Jay

You people eat pretty shitty pizza if there's leftover pizza...

Nov 14, 2012#23

North_Ranger

Jay said:
You people eat pretty shitty pizza if there's leftover pizza...

Dude, I'll burst if I try to eat a homemade pizza in one sitting. That pizza be BIIIG!

Nov 14, 2012#24

HCGLNS

A long time ago when Bush was President, (his dad not W) the local chain used to have $5 medium pepperoni pizzas during exam week. Used to get a max 25 per customer. It was permitted to reheat them once.

Nov 14, 2012#25

Emrys

You can reheat pizza millions and millions of times.

You should reheat pizza only once and rarely even that often.

Nov 14, 2012#26

Charlie Don't Surf

this is a weird thread

Nov 14, 2012#27

Bowielee

You guys made me order a pizza now.

Jerks

Nov 14, 2012#28

Emrys

Share!

Nov 14, 2012#29

WasabiPoptart

Jay said:
You people eat pretty shitty pizza if there's leftover pizza...

For my family, a large is too big and medium is too small. So we get the large and have leftovers for lunch.

Nov 14, 2012#30

Jay

I guess my favorite Pizza place is the goldie locks of Pizza places.

The size is "just right".

Nov 14, 2012#31

Gilgamesh

Cold Pizza: Not even once

Nov 14, 2012#32

figmentPez

Covar said:
I don't understand the question. Why would I ever need to reheat more than once?

The only times I've needed to reheat pizza more than once was when reheating leftovers for my entire family, and I couldn't pin people down to how many pieces they wanted. So it all went in the oven and leftovers from that went back to the fridge.

Nov 14, 2012#33

Yoshimickster

Restaurant pizza: Once, otherwise it will get too dry.

Frozen pizza: At least 2-3 times. Depends on the brand.

Chain pizza: Never. It will taste awful. In fact, it shouldn't even be eaten when warm. Give it to the dog...no wait that is animal cruelty. Let it get moldy and use if for compost.

Nov 14, 2012#34

figmentPez

Yoshimickster said:
Chain pizza: Never. It will taste awful. In fact, it shouldn't even be eaten when warm. Give it to the dog...no wait that is animal cruelty. Let it get moldy and use if for compost.

There is such a thing as a good pizza chain. Although I personally find some Pizza Huts, Papa John's, etc. to be acceptable, I understand how others don't; but I really would like to know who doesn't find Russo's pizza to be excellent, and they are a ~~fairly large~~ chain.

Nov 14, 2012#35

Yoshimickster

figmentPez said:
There is such a thing as a good pizza chain. Although I personally find some Pizza Huts, Papa John's, etc. to be acceptable, I understand how others don't; but I really would like to know who doesn't find Russo's pizza to be excellent, and they are a fairly large chain.

I have never heard of that one, and since it has only 26 locations that makes sense. I personally cannot eat most big chain pizzas, especially Dominoes. Its just such a boring flavor, and it just leaves me unfulfilled. Just like most new Fox TV shows.

Nov 14, 2012#36

figmentPez

Yoshimickster said:
I have never heard of that one, and since it has only 26 locations that makes sense.

Only 26? I thought it was more... Oh, well then, strike it being a "fairly large" chain.

Nov 14, 2012#37

Yoshimickster

figmentPez said:
Only 26? I thought it was more... Oh, well then, strike it being a "fairly large" chain.

Fairly large chains like them are okay I guess, I will now specify my hatred of chains to end confusion. Plus looking from their website, I like how they don't call their Mediums large. That will always bother me about pizza chains, and nothing will change my annoyance of it. NOTHING!

Nov 14, 2012#38

bhamv3

I used to reheat pizza one slice at a time in an electric rice steamer. One of these mofos:

They would emerge absolutely soggy and gross. Ate them anyway.

Nov 14, 2012#39

Gilgamesh

bhamv3 said:
They would emerge absolutely soggy and gross. Ate them anyway.

Nov 16, 2012#40

Jax

PatrThom said:
Pizza can be reheated an infinite number of times, by definition.
However, the maximum number of times before I will refuse to eat it is usually about twice...not because I have anything against it being reheated, but because of the amount of time the pizza would need to hang around to get to a 3rd reheating is usually also enough that it would not be worth eating at that point. Thus:

Day 1: Fresh pizza. W00t! (nom nom nom)
Day 2-4: A bit dry. A quick zap will fix that! (nom nom nom)
Day 5-7: Ooo, that's old. I'll reheat it enough to make it safe to eat again. (nom nom ouch hot nom)
Day 8+: I'm not eating that.

--Patrick

Holy crap, you can eat food that's a week old?!

Nov 16, 2012#41

Frank

bhamv3 said:
I used to reheat pizza one slice at a time in an electric rice steamer. One of these mofos:

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They would emerge absolutely soggy and gross. Ate them anyway.

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Nov 16, 2012#42

Wahad

Jax said:
Holy crap, you can eat food that's a week old?!

If you store it in an air-tight container in the freezer, it keeps for up to three weeks or a month. Depends on the food of course, but sure.

Nov 16, 2012#43

PatrThom

Jax said:
Holy crap, you can eat food that's a week old?!

Pizza (good pizza) is cooked in an oven around 500+ degrees Farenheit. That's hot enough to sterilize it.
Afterwards, airborne contamination will reseed the nastiness, but by then it would be in the fridge, where microbial action is slowed waaaay down.
So yes, a week is a pretty comfortable margin for pizza.

--Patrick

Nov 16, 2012#44

Jax

Wahad said:
If you store it in an air-tight container in the freezer, it keeps for up to three weeks or a month. Depends on the food of course, but sure.

Yeah ok, I freezer I get, but he mentioned 8+ days = nahhh..

Maybe pizza is a specific food type, I never keep enough left to want to store it, but with other foods no matter how airtight I wrap them, more than 3-4 days in the fridge and it just doesn't look good enough anymore

Nov 16, 2012#45

Rovewin

For those wondering how you can need to reheat more than once, here is my tale. I had to reheat my pizza twice just last night. So for some reason everyone was having pizza yesterday so I finally caved and got some. When I picked it up at the pizza joint it was piping hot but it was a 12 minute walk back to my place and 40 something outside so it wasn't even warm when I got back. I had been craving some hot pizza and so I reheated it all since my roommates were in the house but they left as it was reheating. I have 2 slices and then spend five minutes trying to find out what wires had been messed with that my dvd player wasnt showing up. By then the pizza is cold and required another reheating (the main part of the house is kept pretty chilly). Look at clock, pizza age less than 1 hour and already 2 reheatings. If I was hungrier I'm sure it could have been easily bumped up to 3. I got my pizza fix so all in all a good night.

I do kind of wonder how you get up past 5 and still have pizza left. You must have a bunch of interruptions but you think you would just do it a slice or 2 at a time by then.

Nov 17, 2012#46

PatrThom

Jax said:
more than 3-4 days in the fridge and it just doesn't look good enough anymore

Your fridge may not be set cold enough. At 35F your food will last* 8-12 times longer than it would at room temperature. A lot depends on how the food is prepared/served. Pizza is a special case. It is brought to an unusually high temperature, it is very low in moisture (much of the "juice" is actually fat) and high in salt, and it is usually served covered (which slows contamination). I would think nothing of eating bread, cheese, or cured meat which had been cellared for a week, and pizza is basically those three things all melted together.

Now, if you're talking mushrooms, uncured meats (beef/sausage/chicken), fruit (pineapple/tomatoes) or other highly perishable foodstuffs, then we start having issues.

--Patrick
*i.e. safe to eat.

Nov 17, 2012#47

Bowielee

BTW, I've regretted that pizza big time. I'm sometimes in denial about how much my lack of a gal bladder effects my ability to eat fatty foods.

Nov 17, 2012#48

Emrys

Who the heck can keep pizza around for 8+ days? In my house, that stuff's gone 48 hours, tops.[DOUBLEPOST=1353181406][/DOUBLEPOST]That includes the slice that the doomweasels steal and hide.
No, I don't eat that piece. Icky.

Nov 19, 2012#49

Bubble181

It really depends too much on the type of pizza.

Pizza Hut, I've left out in the open for 2 months and it was still perfectly edible when reheated (well, it was friend who left it out, and he ate it. I guess him being drunk helped a lot

Still, it looked and smelled like it was one day old. Pizza Hut is plastic crap, yo. Tasty and fatty, but plastic crap all the same).
Home-made pizza...Well, once. Maybe twice, though, like most others, I'd just reheat parts at a time.
Frozen pizza not at all. You heat it, you eat it. Seriously.
Big chain pizza (Dominoes and whatever): taste like cardboard when new, will taste like greasy cardboard when reheated. Don't. Finish it in one go, or eat it cold, or feed it to the pigs. Better yet, feed it to the pigs when warm, then butcher the pigs and make good pizza with the bacon.
Good restaurant pizza...Two, maybe three times. Eh.
Great restaurant pizza: not at all. If you buy really great pizza and you have any left, you're clearly not doing it right.

Nov 19, 2012#50

GasBandit

Unless you make it yourself from scratch using ingredients from your own garden, pretty much everything you eat these days is a combination of plastic, sand and pesticides.

Nov 19, 2012#51

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Unless you make it yourself from scratch using ingredients from your own garden, pretty much everything you eat these days is a combination of plastic, sand and pesticides.

And petroleum, and e. coli, and one of the myriad derivatives of corn. And transported to the furthest grocery store by the smelliest, least efficient method possible.

--Patrick

Nov 19, 2012#52

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
And petroleum, and e. coli, and one of the myriad derivatives of corn. And transported to the furthest grocery store by the smelliest, least efficient method possible.

--Patrick

Well, by "plastic" I meant petroleum, since plastic is a petroleum product.

But let's also not leave out wood pulp (cellulose)!

Nov 19, 2012#53

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
let's also not leave out wood pulp (cellulose)!

Or the melamine.
Or the hormones.

--Patrick

Nov 20, 2012#54

Jax

You guys sure know how to make food sound delicious..

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