Counter objection the first - our very large dogs. They don’t need to actually put paws on the counter to retrieve the tasty treat we clearly meant for them.
Counter objection the second - actually this is BOX objection - it might work great for transport, but it’s terrible for storage. The pizza always dries out. We transfer to a plastic wrap or Tupperware to keep the pizza edible.
Yes, it goes in the fridge. Food safety, no burning, less me teaching the kids new words while I clean up after the dogs.
I, and everyone I know, goes fridge except for a couple folks I remember in college who went under the bed. About the only way it goes in the oven is when there just isn’t counter space while we’re still eating at it.
It hurts my brain to try to figure out why someone would not store a food with lots of cheese and meat in the fridge, or why they’d use a giant box to store a few slices of pizza instead of a plastic bag (or other container), or why they’d store anything in a device designed to get really hot.
When we have leftover pizza, I wrap it in plastic, usually 2 slices to a pack, and put it in the fridge. Then the box gets flattened, folded, and crammed into the recycle bin.
The only thing stored in the oven are a few pans that won’t fit in the drawer at the bottom of the stove.
Well, it depends on the timescale. There’s obviously some amount of time where leaving it out is OK, or you’d never be able to serve it. I won’t weigh in on what that timescale is, but if you’re within your standards for that time, then the oven is still a worse choice than the counter.
Most pet issues with this can be solved through a combination of closing the box and training your pets properly.
I never look in the oven before turning it on. Therefore I would never store it there. When I bestir myself to make pizza (I never order it), I always make lots and freeze the leftovers to reheat when we want a quick dinner.
Wherever I’ve lived the recycling folks explicitly request that people not try to recycle stuff with food stuck to it such as grease-impregnated paper or cardboard. So your box-top might be OK, but definitely not the greasy bottom. That’s garbage.
They just have to pick that kind of stuff out of the recycle stream and put it in their dumpsters going to the landfill. And it draws vermin to what ought to be a fairly clean stream of recyclable materials.
YMMV of course; there’s as many sets of recycling rules as there are recycling programs.
I’d never think to store anything in my oven. That just seems…odd. Leftover pizza goes in the fridge and cold pizza is a crime against humanity and should be punished accordingly.
Nonsense! If the pet in question is a beautiful, loyal and deserving dog, then the dog gets his fair share of slices along with everyone else.
But no, I’d normally not put a pizza, with or without its box, in the oven for any period of time. If it happens to have come a long distance and isn’t super hot, the oven at a moderate warming temperature like 220F might be OK for half an hour or so, but that’s rarely necessary. But actual storage (as in, overnight) means it gets wrapped in plastic and put in the fridge. I’m not really interested in breeding botulism or salmonella.
There’s a whole other discussion to be had about how to reconstitute refrigerated pizza. It’s almost an art form that generally depends on the characteristics of the specific pizza.
Yeah, ours go into the fridge, and get heated up (or not) as they’re eaten. On occasion we even freeze them and bust them out later for easy weekend lunches and such.
Leftovers (if there are any) get stored in the fridge, in either Tupperware (if my wife is storing it) or aluminum foil (if I’m storing it, since I reheat it using the foil as a platform). The box goes in the trash that night, since, as LSLGuy says, our recycling program only takes clean paper / cardboard.
All the rules I’ve seen are pretty consistent about keeping pizza boxes out of the recycling, because it doesn’t take much of that grease to ruin a whole batch of recycled paper/cardboard.
