Can I put a cardboard pizza box in the oven?
Try it, I'm sure you will be able to. Don't lose hope!Just kidding.It all depends on the temperature of the oven!If it's off, then yes, without any hesitation. I wouldn't recommend keeping it in an even set over 200 degrees centigrade though. Cardboard burns at roughly 220 degrees centigrade, but this temperature again varies with the type of cardboard used, the altitude of the location and so on and so forth.If you were putting the pizza box solely for the purpose of reheating the pizza, then there shouldn't be much of a problem. However, baking a pizza from scratch on a cardboard box would be foolish, of course, unless you wanted a cardboard flavoured pizza, along with a dash of fire.Enjoy the pizza btw! :D
Why does frozen pizza sit on a piece of cardboard in the box if you don't use the cardboard to cook it on?
To slide the pizza off of and into the oven.But, more importantly, when you remove your now cooked pizza, you can slide it onto the cardboard base and it’ll serve as a base that will give in slightly to the pressure when you cut your pizza with a pizza cutter.Otherwise, the pizza cutter’s blade will run along and scratch the surface underneath the pizza pie, hence making damaging marks if that aforementioned surface’s material is prone to scratches.If it’s glass it won’t cut through evenly, and you’ll have to pull your hot pizza apart, stringing cheese and all. Besides, the sound of a rolling blade against glass is similar to the screeching sound of fingernails against a blackboard.So there you have it. The definitive answer to how to use the round included cardboard base in a frozen pizza box.Why it sits on it is obviously to assure that the pie remains flat if the temperature changes during transport from facility of manufacture to your local store’s freezer dept. If the crust softens, ingredients will fall off and it’ll cook unevenly.
Is it safe to leave a pizza box with pizza in it in the oven at 77°C (170°F) overnight?
I leave my pizza in the box in the oven overnight with the oven off, meat and all (with the exception of chicken) every time I order pizza. But I never eat it cold. I always reheat it until it is sizzling hot. This is not safe by health department standards, but I've been doing it for years without a problem and I'm not inclined to change. Sometimes it's better reheated the next day because the crust is more crunchy!
Is it a good idea to put frozen pizza directly to the preheated oven, or better unfreeze it before?
lolhow did you manage the beef Jalfrezi last time? (Kurt Van den Broeck's answer to Which exotic sauces go well with beef?)if you bought it frozen there is absolutely no reason to defrost it. Most of the time oven at 200–220°C for 12–14 min will do (check the instructions on the packaging)