The Problem With Bringing Cold Pizza For Lunch

[The Golden Boy]

It never lasts until lunch.

Cold pizza is the ultimate breakfast food. I generally don't eat breakfast, but if I've got a container of cold pizza in the fridge, I can't resist it. I had a big container full of pizza. I now have a big container with one little slice in it and it's lunch time...

[tone4days]

zackly
same with leftover chinese food for me
in fact, i intentionally did NOT bring my mongolian beef for lunch today because i knew it wouldnt make it to lunch ... i'll reheat it for dinner tonight instead

but now i have to figure out where to grab lunch

t4d

[The Golden Boy]

There's this awesome Mongolian place relatively close to work. I want to hit that place up for lunch one of these days...

[tone4days]

i love mongolian barbeque but my wife refuses to go .. she says its too much like having to cook her own food - when she goes out, she doesnt want to have to do any of the work .. so i try to get a 'guys night out' every once in a while to scratch that itch

good stuff

t4d

[Gamera]

Yuck. Pizza is meant to be eaten hot and fresh. Congealed grease puddles or mushy crust due to microwaving the next day are NOT was 'za is all about.

I'm hungry now. Mama Mia's with a side of garlic bread! Mmmmmmmmmm...

[tone4days]

next day pizza is eaten straight from the fridge, never reheated
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[idsnowdog]

The first time I had Mongolian BBQ I thought it was great but every time since I have been disappointed. Often it is just too greasy.

I like a white sauce pizza with spinach, artichokes, mushrooms, black olives and chicken better cold than hot.

[The Golden Boy]

Yuck. Pizza is meant to be eaten hot and fresh. Congealed grease puddles or mushy crust due to microwaving the next day are NOT was 'za is all about.

I'm hungry now. Mama Mia's with a side of garlic bread! Mmmmmmmmmm...

Michael's (on Sunset) in Waukesha or the Marchese's Olive Pit in Walker's Point.

[ratherdashing]

next day pizza is eaten straight from the fridge, never reheated
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100% yes.

If you are one of those crazies who absolutely has to eat hot pizza, you must at least put it on a rack in the oven. 5 - 10 minutes at 300, then a couple minutes under the broiler. Never the microwave.

[thespricket]

i just ate pizza at my favorite pizza place in the world. the best...

[Gearjoneser]

The problem is I always reheat it in the microwave, and of course in the excitement of having pizza for breakfast, burn the daylights out of my mouth. Then, I sit around the rest of the day, angry at myself, licking the little strings of skin hanging from the roof of my mouth. haha

[ErikH]

Microwaved pizza = rubber with cheese.

I'm with RD, reheat in the oven if you must have it hot.

I LOVE cold pizza, breakfast or lunch.

[Fresno Bob]

I like a white sauce pizza with spinach, artichokes, mushrooms, black olives and chicken better cold than hot.

See, that sounds good. But, doesn't the white sauce 'separate' in the fridge over night? I've never had any left over, because I figure it'll be like cottage cheese the next day.

[kjrocks]

I'll eat pizza any way. Cold , reheated, left out all night whatever.
The trick for the microwave is using half power. I always do for reheating anything. It takes longer but usually heats more evenly and less strings of blistered flesh afterwards

[Sludgenutz]

Quality pizza makes quality leftovers! Cheap corporate pizza sucks! I hate corporate pizza!

I don't think a pizza of quality needs to cost less than $15-$20.

[idsnowdog]

See, that sounds good. But, doesn't the white sauce 'separate' in the fridge over night? I've never had any left over, because I figure it'll be like cottage cheese the next day.

The white sauce and the cheese congeal so you don't get separation like alfredo sauce. The cheese just absorbs the white sauce.

[DLT]

The problem is I always reheat it in the microwave, and of course in the excitement of having pizza for breakfast, burn the daylights out of my mouth. Then, I sit around the rest of the day, angry at myself, licking the little strings of skin hanging from the roof of my mouth. haha

Ouch!