Important! Frozen Pizza Questions!
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same_skyOkay, this has bothered me for years so please don't ignore this question just because it's Friday and LJ is slow on Fridays.
When you look at the directions for frozen pizza, they almost always tell you to place the pizza directly on the oven rack. In a small sidenote, it will say something about how you can put it on a cookie sheet for a softer crust. What I want to know is... does anyone put their pizza directly on the oven rack?
If you do, I would also like to know: does it not bother you that oven racks are not cleaned? Or do you acually clean your oven racks more than I clean mine? Or that pizza cheese and toppings are likely to slide off the edge and burn onto the bottom of the oven, if not during cooking then during transport? And okay, I can see how you could put a frozen pizza INTO the oven and onto a rack successfully, but how would one remove it? I guess that you could use a pizza peel but if you have one of those out where it's easily accessible are you really making that many frozen pizzas? Or maybe you remove the whole oven rack. But still, I am thinking of all the burnt-on places on my pizza pans. Doesn't it stick? And/or create a big mess? Why would you do this in the first place anyway?
Also, does anyone ever fix a frozen pizza without adding more cheese? I personally add more cheese, green peppers and onions (pre-chopped from the freezer, usually) and pepperoni. I recently bought some Freschetta pizzas (on sale, with coupons) and they could probably be used without adding more toppings. I refuse to pay premium frozen pizza prices, though, so maybe that's the difference in adding more toppings.
There are a lot of really important things going on in my head, as you can clearly see. Please given me more frozen pizza information because I seriously want to know.
When you look at the directions for frozen pizza, they almost always tell you to place the pizza directly on the oven rack. In a small sidenote, it will say something about how you can put it on a cookie sheet for a softer crust. What I want to know is... does anyone put their pizza directly on the oven rack?
If you do, I would also like to know: does it not bother you that oven racks are not cleaned? Or do you acually clean your oven racks more than I clean mine? Or that pizza cheese and toppings are likely to slide off the edge and burn onto the bottom of the oven, if not during cooking then during transport? And okay, I can see how you could put a frozen pizza INTO the oven and onto a rack successfully, but how would one remove it? I guess that you could use a pizza peel but if you have one of those out where it's easily accessible are you really making that many frozen pizzas? Or maybe you remove the whole oven rack. But still, I am thinking of all the burnt-on places on my pizza pans. Doesn't it stick? And/or create a big mess? Why would you do this in the first place anyway?
Also, does anyone ever fix a frozen pizza without adding more cheese? I personally add more cheese, green peppers and onions (pre-chopped from the freezer, usually) and pepperoni. I recently bought some Freschetta pizzas (on sale, with coupons) and they could probably be used without adding more toppings. I refuse to pay premium frozen pizza prices, though, so maybe that's the difference in adding more toppings.
There are a lot of really important things going on in my head, as you can clearly see. Please given me more frozen pizza information because I seriously want to know.
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Date: 2009-05-01 06:09 pm (UTC)1. The husband puts them directly on the rack, with foil on the rack below to catch drips. I like my pizza soft (I know, weird) so I microwave mine! Sometimes I'll compromise by putting it on a piece of foil or parchment on the rack, though.
2. I don't clean my oven racks. Pizza is literally the only thing that ever gets on them, and a good scraping fixes that. It's an oven, not a showroom. :)
3. My Mom does pull out her racks and clean them often. It didn't trickle down to me.
4. I used pizza peels when I worked at Round Table (4 years -- though we called it the paddle). They're good but you do some shoving to get them pizza unstuck.
5. Removing the whole oven rack.. sounds hot and burny!
6. We add all sorts of things to our pizzas.. depends on what we have in the fridge. I particularly like to sprinkle bacon bits on it. Real ones, not the fake red ones. Canned salad shrimp is yummy too.
7. I would seriously eat pizza for every meal of my life if allowed, and frozen is just one of the versions I adore!