The INSIDER Summary:
- Properly reheating leftover pizza can be a challenge.
- A YouTuber named Internet Shaquille has figured out the best way to revive leftover pizza.
- «French Toasting» your pizza involves coating the slice with an egg wash to make it golden and crispy.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that Americans really freaking love pizza. So much so that every second 350 slices are consumed. Seems impossible to measure, but also completely believable considering Americans order 3 billion pizzas every single year. (For reference, that’s 10 times the amount of slices it takes to wrap around the world.)
So you’d think with this never-ending pizza obsession, we would’ve figured out how to properly reheat leftover ‘za. Eating cold pizza with congealed cheese is barbaric. Microwaves make the crust soggy. Sautéing a slice in a pan doesn’t properly warm the cheese. So what is a pizza lover to do, if they weren’t able to finish every slice immediately?
One YouTuber apparently has the answer. Internet Shaquille, as he’s known on the video platform, claims that «French Toasting» your pizza slice is the best way to revive it the next day.
Here’s how it works: An egg wash, much like you’d make for actual French toast, entirely coats the slice and gets it golden and crispy while (important!) protecting the cheese as it heats on a skillet.
So what do you have to do? Mix a few eggs with heavy cream, paprika, and salt. Dunk your slices into the mixture and sauté the soggy slices on both sides, heating the crust side first. Huzzah: Now you have an extra crispy pizza that’s ready for consumption.
Check out the full tutorial:
