Don't throw it in the oven because that will only make it worse.
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THE BEST WAY TO REHEAT LEFTOVER PIZZA?! (3 WAYS)
Serious Mealtimes / Russell Kilgore
Although I’m a huge fan of cold pizza I often find myself longing to relive the glory days of a fresh pie. Knowing that it’s impossible to turn back the clock on a pizza—which begins to degrade almost immediately after it comes out of the oven—I’ve never given much thought to figuring out whether there’s an ideal way to reheat cold pizza. I’ve simply assumed that the best thing to do is to throw it in a hot oven until it’s thoroughly heated through and resign myself to the fact that the crust on a reheated slice will never approach the texture of a freshly baked one. While the oven can restore some of the crispness and suppleness a slice had when it was fresh it does so at the expense of much of the moisture it contained. A reheated slice no matter how delicious will inevitably be crispier drier and firmer than it originally was as a percentage of the water it contained has been driven off in the process. For those who can afford to invest in steam injection features the Balmuda toaster can work wonders for breathing new life into old pizza. However there are other methods as well.
But I recently found a better method that minimizes this moisture loss as much as possible. I stumbled upon it by accident one day when I decided I didn’t want to waste time turning on my entire oven to reheat a few measly slices of pizza. Since I didn’t have a toaster the standard weapon for reheating slices of pizza I decided to reheat my slices on the (rarely used) griddle on my stovetop placing them under the stainless steel cover that’s meant to hide it when not in use.
