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Prepared and processed foods

Pizza

Almost always a reheating problem rather than a cooking one, and it is where air fryers beat microwaves outright.

What it does in fast-moving hot air

A cooked base has already lost its surface moisture once and reabsorbed some from the topping in the fridge. Dry moving air drives that moisture back out and re-crisps the base, while the topping needs only to reach serving temperature. The failure mode is the cheese browning before the base has dried, which is a temperature problem rather than a time one.

Why the cut matters

Pizza appears in this catalogue mainly as a reheating question, which is the use case where an air fryer is unambiguously the best domestic tool: it restores a crisp base that a microwave cannot.

Cooking pages

  • Pizza (reheating) — The clearest case where an air fryer beats every other tool in the kitchen.
  • Whole frozen pizza — A fit problem before it is a cooking problem, and the answer depends on your appliance.

There is deliberately no cooking time on this page. A food does not have one — a cut, at a thickness, in a state, at a loading, in a particular appliance does. That is what the pages above are for.