So I have my whole life put pizza in the fridge when it’s done, except on the odd occasion where I’ve gotten drunk pizza woke up to it out on the bench still.
However focaccia and other bread treats get left on the bench a day or two and no one sees an issue.
How about garlic bread? Fridge? I think so but then again I think of those bacon cheese roles that just live on the bench all the time.
I just don’t know anymore
Yes, pizza goes on the fridge if I didn’t eat all of it in time. I have a food manager safety certificate somewhere so I probably should know exactly what foods need to go in there, but look. My brain is mush. A lot gotta in there to protect us.
Don’t buy food from me??
I have almost never put leftover pizza in the fridge. Generally store it in the oven. That’s how my folks did it. Never had any problems. Was not expecting to come into this thread and see universal adoption of fridge pizza. I find the crust gets wet and gooey. You all do you, but after fifty years of doing it my way without any issues, I can’t see any reason to change.
I like meat on my pizza so yes, it goes in the fridge.
Pizza goes in the fridge. It’s not just bread; lots of high moisture goodies for bacteria to eat.
My other examples often contain similar ingredients though, should I be putting them in the fridge too?
Focaccia is just bread and oil. Pizza has mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce on it, definitely refrigerate. Some aged cheeses might be fine out of the fridge, but not fresh cheeses like mozzarella. I think that after baking (if you get it hot enough and the mozzarella is very crispy), pizza MIGHT be able to survive on the counter for a day or so. But I’d say it’s kinda risky, and your pizza gets stale! That’s not pleasant.
What are the bacon cheese rolls that you’re talking about? Sounds to me like something that should be refrigerated.
Oil doesn’t count as moisture.
Depending on the pizza, it might be up to 90% oil.
I put pizza in the freezer, and put it in the oven again before I eat it.
I like using my airfryer oven machine thing on a combo to reheat pizza. Helps maintain a crunch i just can’t get from the oven without burning the crust a bit
Plain bread doesn’t have sufficient water activity to support bacterial growth.
Focaccia is generally bread with oils/fats (oils aren’t water so they don’t contribute to water activity).
Sweetened pastries have more water in them, but have most of the water bound to sugar molecules so that there’s not enough water activity to support bacterial growth.
But pizza has a water-based sauce on the crust, and often has moist toppings. That’s why some pizzas become soggy over time. That’s enough water activity to support microbial growth, including some microbes that cause illness. So pizza should be refrigerated.
Thank you for this, it’s a great explanation
Well yes ofc. If the bread has anything more than flour oil water salt sugar preservatives leaveners it goes in the fridge.
Any flavouring means fridge. Although its so hot and humid here we even refrigerate our bread in the summer months
Yeah our bread lives in the fridge because it goes moldy otherwise, especially since a loaf will last 3 weeks in my house, not really bread eaters
Leftover anything will last longer in the fridge, but I’ve been known to leave pizza on the counter and pick at it for a few days.
And you’ve never gotten the shits from that?
Nope.
Yeah preservation wise fridge for sure, but left out overnight or a day, provided its not 35 degrees seems fine in my mind
True if it was 35 in your house it would actually be better left out, unless you have your fridge set lower than that.
Unit of measure confusion is sometimes good comedy?
The reason why you can (not especially safely) eat takeout pizza that’s been sitting out overnight is because it’s usually loaded with salt. Salt is a preservative, and limits growth of the nasties.
Yeah makes me really thirsty and hold so much water for a day or two after.
Never good for weigh in days
Where else am I gonna store the leftovers?
My house
Forget the fridge, why do you keep food on a bench? Don’t you have tables?
7 tables to be precise, but they’re for different things.
The kitchen bench seems a great a place as any
Hell yeah
I’m assuming the US isn’t on the list since we measure our pizza in pounds.
You’re telling me there’s a metric for food eaten by a country (in this case frozen pizza) and USA doesn’t even make the LIST???
BUT ITALY DOES??? GOD DAMMIT ITALY! YOU HAVE FRESH AUTHENTIC ITALIAN PIZZA LITERALLY EVERYWHERE!!! EVERY LOCAL PIZZERIA IS AUTHENTIC ITALIAN PIZZA FOR YOU!!! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING???
Thank you for leaning into the account name roleplay now and then :P
If I just leave it the ants will get it
Ah yeah damn ants, I’m glad my house now doesn’t seem to have them.
I think it’s the pest control I get done every 6 months or so.
Growing up we always had ants it was terrible
i find it still palateable after 24 hours out, but i never go past that, usually overnight at the most. my partner will let it sit for longer if i dont intervene
the flavor and texture degrade quite a bit even just overnight. if you put it in the fridge right away (in something airtight) flavor and texture stay much more intact. For me i will give it up to 5 days in the fridge before throwing it out.
if i have way too much pizza i freeze slices in airtight bags. a bit of a hassle to reheat, but it comes out almost as good as fresh
I don’t understand “too much pizza” how can you possibly have to much. Seriously though frozen pizza put back into my air-frier oven thing comes out good as the day it was bought
too much to eat before it goes bad. i max out at pizza twice a day personally. if i have more than a two pies worth i need to start freezing
Yeah i think if it wasn’t so unhealthy i would eat it all the time.
There’s just so much variation in what can be done with it.
Any toppings or flavours you want, unfortunately though all pizza where I am is very salty leaving my very thirsty
I keep bread in the fridge too. Is that bad?
We keep our bread in the fridge, otherwise it goes moldy in 2 or 3 days and we don’t eat much bread at my house
It makes it go stale quicker.
I don’t buy this, not if it’s sealed.
Refridgeration speeds up starch retrogradation. Being sealed doesn’t matter; it’s the cold.
