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I don't put ranch on anything! Gross tasting stuff.

I absolutely love ranch on my pizza. Granted, I am a middle-school student (though homeschooled), and got the idea from my (middle school, homeschooled) friends after we started dipping French-Fries in Ranch (that's justified in Mich--here most of the fries are way too greasy or way too dry). We decided to try it on our pizza--and it's great. Only Hidden Valley (tm) works though. Deep dish pizza doesn't need it, fortunately. A group fave for us is cayenne pepper, fresh black pepper, ranch, and tabasco sauce. I agree, if it's good pizza, it doesn't need condiments, but (1) pizza in metro-detroit isn't that good, and (2), it doesn't matter if it needs it--if ya want it, I say put it on unashamedly!

Nothing is better than Ham & Pineapple pizza dipped in Ranch.

I hated pizza until I tried it with ranch. Any type of pizza goes great with ranch really except Mexican style, I usually dip that in sour cream.

I find that leftover pizza picks up a cardboard taste if left in the box. I put my slices in baggies and refrigerate. When ready to eat, I zap in microwave for a minute or two to soften and moisten it up, then put it in a very hot oven to crisp. I find this method works much better than just microwaving (no crispness) or just oven (too hard and dried out).

I leave it on the counter for days. Three days is my max, and it still tasted ok, and I never suffered any ill effects. I'm single and live in a small apartment, so one large pizza can last me at least a few meals. That said, I have also fished an opened container of dipping sauce from a friend's garbage.

Yup, I'd eat it. Room temp ranks right after "piping hot" on my preferred pizza temperature spectrum. I like how it gets chewy after a night on the counter top.

BF and I have different ideas, though. So his portion of the leftover pizza goes in the fridge, covered tightly in plastic wrap. Never foil.

Is it me or do the blogs about less than great pizza seem to get the most play? Like this and that Raamen post.

Ciao,

Paulie Gee

i actually don't refrigerate pizza either, when i reheat pizza that's been kept at room temperature, the cheese remelts a lot closer to how it would on fresh pizza. as for critters, i use a zip-lock bag squeezed almost air tight and then put it back in the box. maybe it's just in my head, but i could swear my method is much better than the fridge.

In England, although I routinely refrigerated my own butter and eggs, I ate the food prepared with unrefrigerated eggs and butter of my friends and lived to tell the tale.

I've eaten pizza left out for one night in college when I lived in a single dorm with no refrigerator. But I may be weird--I always LIKED cold pizza. It's like a different 'substance' in and of itself. I think the cheese tastes better when it 'sets' in the cold. Why not just stick the cardboard box in the 'fridge, even on top of things?

I wouldn't leave tomato sauce out overnight. I wouldn't leave cooked veggies out. I wouldn't leave sausage out. I don't even leave cheese out. Bread products must at least be wrapped well to prevent getting hard and stale and if it's really hot and humid, that goes in the fridge. I might leave pepperoni out (seriously though, I wouldn't), so nope. Not a chance. I wrap up what's left and it goes in the fridge or freezer. As soon as we're finished eating. Why chance getting sick? Is it a game of risk? No thanks. Not worth the potential consequences and what's the point anyway? You don't want to take the 40 seconds it takes to wrap and store properly? I really and truly do not get it.

Whatever you do, don't leave it the cardboard box, or it will taste like cardboard. Pizza should never be kept overnight in a cardboard box.

Maybe 1 night - and covered - but not 2. Pizza doesn't last that long for me anyway. If it's there by the end of the next day, it goes in the fridge. But I don't have a roach/ant problem and no pets to jump on counters.

What a bunch of snobs. Don't put Ranch on pizza!! Eat whatever you want on pizza.