I moved away from New Jersey about 11 years ago. Yes, there is a difference in pizza quality - I had better pizza in NJ than in San Fran, although there is excellent pizza here. But cold, the difference is more marked than when warm. The too-thick crust doesn’t make as good cold pizza as the nice, thin crust I used to get.
Pizza reheated by means of a toaster oven or some arcane cast iron process may be acceptable. Pizza reheated by bombarding it with microwaves is an abomination unto the Lord.
Well, you’ve got your cold-pizza pizzas, and your hot-pizza pizzas. Which one to order depends on when you most want to enjoy it.
If it’s a breakfast of manna you’re after, get yourself a hand-tossed chicken (or pepperoni if chicken’s not available) and pineapple, eat a couple token slices when you get it, and put the rest in the fridge for an all-morning snack-a-thon tomorrow.
If it’s dinnertime and you’re feeling that piping hot, melty-cheese, scalding-sauce, crispy-crust craving, order up a large thin-crust meat lover’s (or equivalent) and go to town. It’s not quite as good cold – chilled Italian sausage, while serviceable, doesn’t really strike my fancy – but, man, it’ll hit the hot-pizza pizza spot like nothing else.
Female checking in. Yes, I like cold pizza. It can’t be plain, though. I like cold pizza with a couple of toppings; pepperoni, sausage, green peppers.
I’ll sometimes reheat it, but never, ever in the microwave. I have a pizza stone that works just fine for returning cold pizza to its fresh-from-the-oven goodness. It keeps the crust from getting all soggy.
I like pizza with a spicy tomato sauce; the spicier the sauce, the better it tastes, hot or cold. And the crust should be thin, just a little something to hold the sauce, cheese, and toppings. After decades of living in various places in the midwest and on the west coast, I am back in the northeast, the land of delicious pizza. It really is better here.
Cold pizza is good, but only certain kinds. For instance, I can eat cold cheese pizza, but I can’t eat cold deluxe pizza (the kind with olives, mushrooms, onions, peppers, sausage, etc.) I can eat cold pepperoni pizza but not cold sausage pizza.
And TripleTee is right - heat your leftovers up in a skillet. That way the crust comes out right.
OK, I guess I’m the only one: I HATE COLD PIZZA. I’ve never liked it. Believe me, I’ve had it put in front of me on many hungover mornings, and even then I couldn’t eat it. I like it OK hot, though.
Heh, I just posted in another thread about how I think cold pizza sucks, and I was completely unaware of this thread at the time. But yeah. We do order extra pizza to have leftovers, but I always reheat mine (in the microwave, no less!).
And I’m a girl, just to reinforce the OP’s suggestion that cold pizza is “a guy thing.”
Hot pizza is very good; cold pizza is very good too. The local chain does a buy 1 get 1 half price deal so I can have one hot and one cold the next day.
Is no one going to comment about the ESPN show of the same name?
I didn’t think that cold pizza was anywhere that popular, until I heard that was the title.
I do the cold pizza, but I have never had it for breakfast. I always held it for lunch or a snack the day after. I always looked forward to it in the morning.
Pepperoni and Pineapple. I don’t think I have ever done that one, but it makes sense immediately. (I’ve done Ham and Pineapple TONS of times).
I want pizza now. For some reason.
I don’t know about Sugar… don’t know if I should be tempted.
When I was a young buck, I would sometimes have cold spaghetti and a couple of beers for breakfast, to impress my cohorts, even though I secretly hated having that for breakfast. I’m guessing it might be the same with this thread and cold pizza.