How To Keep Pizza Warm In Oven

Warming in the Oven while still in a Pizza Box 

1. It’s good to buy time while waiting for your pizza delivery by preheating the oven to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. 
2. When your order arrives, open the pizza box, so the steam comes out of the pizza for a short while; otherwise, your pizza might absorb moisture. 
3. After half a minute, or when you see steam beginning to lessen, cover the pizza box again. 
4. Prevent steam from building up by opening the cutout vents that pizza boxes typically have. If you can’t find cutout vents, then just punch a few slits yourself by using a knife. The idea is to continue letting the steam out so the box and the pizza don’t dampen from moisture.
5. Place your pizza that’s still in its pizza box into the preheated oven. From 200, dial the heat down to its lowest setting. This is usually at 140 degrees Fahrenheit. 

Don’t worry about your pizza box catching fire because you’re cranking the oven down to its lowest heat setting. If your heat reaches 400 degrees Fahrenheit, then that’s when your pizza box, as with other cardboard boxes, would catch fire. 

Warming Without a Pizza Box

Another tip on how to keep pizza warm in oven is to heat it without the box. Here are some tips.

1. Preheat a pizza stone in your oven, still at 200 degrees Fahrenheit for half an hour. The stone acts as an insulator for your pizza. 
2. From its pizza box, let the pie slide through the box flap and onto the preheated pizza stone in the oven. 
3. Loosely cover the pizza with aluminum foil. Be sure to have corners that allow steam to come out, so tuck only to corners of the foil onto the bottom of the pizza stone. 
4. Now, turn the oven’s heat down to its lowest setting, like 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
5. You can let your pizza stay warming on the pizza stone in the oven, but not for more than two hours so that the crust will not dry out. 

Wrapping in aluminum foil 

This way of heating up pizza is ideal if you want to keep your pie warm for longer than three hours, say, the next meal. Aluminum foil provides excellent insulation. But with this method, it is best if you are working with slices and not the whole pie. 

1. Wrap each pizza slice in aluminum foil. 
2. Bake your pizza in the oven set at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for ten minutes. 

Ten minutes is all it takes for the aluminum foil warming method because anything longer than that may harden or overcook the pizza. You wouldn’t want a dry crust. 

How to keep pizza warm in oven is something good to remember as a life skill, but if you do not have an oven, here are a few ways to try. 

Using a blanket 

1. Let out the steam off your just arrived pizza by opening the box. 
2. Close the box when the steam has escaped. 
3. Punch into the pizza box’s cutout vents to keep the steam from building up and moistening the box and eventually the pizza.
4. Wrap the pizza box in a small blanket or thick bath towel, ensuring that the whole box is covered. The blanket or towel acts as an insulator to keep your pizza warm. The more blankets, the longer the pizza becomes warm. 
5. Eat the pizza within half an hour to enjoy it best, at the right warmth. 

Using a skillet or frying pan

This is a quicker method if you’re dealing with just a few slices anyway. Here are the steps: 

1. On a non-stick pan over high heat, heat pizza for some two minutes. Check the bottom of the crust to watch out for burning. What you want is a crust that remains crisp. 
2. Turn off the heat after two minutes, then cover the pan to warm the sauce and toppings and melt the cheese.