How to reheat pizza perfectly (5 minutes)

In this post we'll talk about the best way to reheat pizza.

Since a pizza is baked you might think you can just pop it back in the oven. You can, but that just further dries it out and generally makes it taste worse.

You could steam it but the crust generally becomes soggy and icky.

Instead, use your frying pan and do both:

• In a large, clean, frying pan, put in your slice of pizza.
• You'll need some room on the side to have just a little bit of water, maybe a tablespoon or so.
• Ideally the water shouldn't touch the pizza and be soaked into the crust, but it won't totally ruin things if it does.
• Cover with a reasonably tight lid because we want to keep the steam under the lid.
• Doesn't have to be pressure-cooker tight.
• During reheating, do not open the lid or the steam will escape and you'll lose a lot of heat suddenly.
• On the stove, turn on high heat and listen for the water to start sizzling. That means it's starting to turn to steam.
• Turn off the heat and let it sit on the hot element for another four minutes.
• We're not taking off the lid to inspect how things are going so this is just an estimate.

When it's done, the pizza toppings should be heated through and the cheese melted and gooey again. The crust at the bottom will hopefully be hot and slightly crispy but not charred or hardened into a biscuit.

What you instead have is more or less the pizza that first came out fresh from the pizza oven.