I’ve seen a few people put their delivered pizza in the oven after everyone grabs a piece to keep it warm. I’ve also seen a lot of those people forget the pizza is in there and either have to throw it out or only noticed after they preheated their oven.
I’m not sure about pizza but I’ve heard a guy putting a casserole in his oven and forgot about it because his coworker was begging him to hang out with him. When he walked back home, his house was burned down to the ground and the firefighters told him “Some knucklehead left a casserole in the oven.” He was super devastated after that.
Well, sir/ma’am:
- my father once put a pizza box into the oven then turned the oven on to keep it warm, intending to turn it off quickly but forgot. Fire ensued
- I was 18 in a terrible apartment and needed to run over to my buddies place to borrow something. I had stock on the stove but figured it had to reduce and I could go and be back quickly. We had one of those sandwiches that they have on How I Met Your Mother and I forgot all about the stock. The guy across the hall and I had swapped spare keys. He saw smoke pouring out of my kitchen window and let himself in and threw the pot in the sink and turned the water on. Crisis averted other than me thinking about it and being filled with shame every time I put a pot on a stove.
Reheating in cast-iron is the way to go.
Haven’t done that yet but it’s definitely what I’ll be trying next time. Normally I just eat it cold.
I’ve heard air fryers work well too
Convection oven works great as well I’ve found. About 10 minutes at 375 and they’re perfect, points if you use parchment lined baking sheet for less cleanup.
Silicon reusable sheet for almost similar cleaning, but eco-friendlier flex.
That’s a thing? I have silicon oven mitts because I once badly burnt my hands not realizing they were slightly wett but had no idea about baking sheets
But… It’s pizza. You just eat it until it’s gone.
You must have grown up in a house like mine. If we didn’t eat everything we could, my dad would and then you wouldn’t get enough.
Cardboard burns up pretty quickly. I would think the fire would be contained in the oven no?
Last time I set an oven fire there were flames licking up and out of the vents on the top, along with a lot of smoke. I wasn’t sure if opening it to get the flaming nachos out would give it more oxygen and bigger flames. It did not, but I had the fire extinguisher ready when I opened the door.
My ex used to hide dirty dishes in the oven. One time I was going to make something and started pre-heating the oven not realizing she was squirreling dishes away in it. We lost a bunch of tupperware containers that day, which essentially melted down through the racks and onto the element.
To this day I always check the oven before turning it on now, even though we haven’t been together for nearly 20 years.
