How do you cook a jack's pizza?

Answer 1

Assuming a Jack's Pizza is similar to any other takeaway pizza, try using a frying pan (skillet).

I don't like pizza reheated in the oven; you're right, it never tastes really good that way. Microwaving just doesn't work well at all, and toaster ovens or grills (broilers) aren't so good, either.

I use a nonstick pan - of a size to fit the pizza, of course - on the stovetop. I keep a big, shallow, cheap old pan just for this and similar reheating. Pizza won't stick no matter how old the pan is.

Brush the bottom of the cold pan with a little olive oil, put the pizza in*, put on the lid (if there's no lid to fit the pan you can as easily use the daily paper - folded over, depending on the pan size - just lay it on top of the pan) and turn the heat to medium-high.

When the pan is hot and the pizza starting to sizzle, turn down the heat to medium-low and leave until it's all completely heated through.

Turn off the heat, leave the pan on the hotplate, and the pizza will keep hot while you eat. If you take the pizza from the pan to serve it, slide it onto paper towels on a plate.

*It's a good idea to add extra cheese at the start, grated or sliced. Commercial pizza cheese just doesn't stand reheating very well, which is part of the reheating problem. Add extra toppings with the cheese if you like - mushrooms, chillies, hot sausage, and so on. Add the cheese last: it stops the toppings drying out.

Pizza reheated this way has a good rich taste, and looks fine. The bottom will be crisp, and the flavour excellent.

Just keep an eye on it and be sure to turn down the heat before the bottom gets too crisp; it'll crisp up on the lower heat while the toppings cook through. Check regularly after turning the heat down, to be sure you don't have it too high. Once you've done it this way a couple of times you'll turn it into an art form!

The best alternative is to put the cold pizza straight onto a rack in a hot oven (450F or 230C), preferably with extra cheese and maybe other toppings, and cook for ten to twenty minutes, or until heated through and the bottom crisped. An ordinary domestic oven won't crisp the bottom properly if you just put the pizza on an oven tray; it needs to be exposed to the heat, and the rack allows this.

Answer 2

Usually its 350 degrees. Check until it looks fully baked.