Tips to help you enjoy it all over again! Food and Cooking: Foods: Reheat leftover pizza to bring out flavor Tips to help you enjoy it all over again! Food and Cooking: Foods: Reheat leftover pizza to bring out flavor

Reheat leftover pizza to bring out flavor
Nancy Peterson

Some like it hot, some not. While many people say they prefer leftover pizza cold -- and for breakfast, at that -- reheating it can revive just-baked flavor.

Karen Blakeslee, Kansas State University Research and Extension Rapid Response coordinator, offers these reheating tips:

To reheat pizza in a microwave oven, place the pizza on a microwave-safe plate or tray; cover it loosely with plastic food wrap, vent at one edge. Cooking time will vary with thickness of crust; size of slice; and topping.

Reheating pizza in the oven usually takes longer, but crust is less likely to toughen, she says. Place leftover pizza on an oven-proof baking sheet or pan; cover with aluminum foil and place in a preheated, 350-degree F oven. Reheating time will vary with thickness of crust, size of slice and filling.

Use a food thermometer to check safe-to-eat temperature -- leftovers should be reheated to 165 degrees F. Pizza should not be reheated in the take-out or carry home box. Some are not oven-proof, Blakeslee says.  ¶ 11:08 PM