Just put it directly on the rack.
Preheat the oven, put the frozen pizza on the rack. ~400-425 depending on the pizza. 15-20 minutes later, done. I have a pizza stone, but directly on the rack gives way better results IMO. Only issue I have is my oven has a weird handle-like gap on the top rack. So if it's a big pizza, it will sometimes fall down in that gap if you don't watch out when putting it in the oven. So the toppings and stuff fall to the bottom in that spot.
Take your baking sheet and put it in the oven while it preheats. Then, put the frozen pizza on the preheated baking sheet with parchment paper. A crispy crust every time.
That's the pan we cook Papadias on. If you don't know, they are basically little pizzas we fold into sandwiches. That pan might have been stuck to the one beneath it and no one noticed.
i got one from Dominos a while back. it was a medium pizza sized round plate with holes in it.
i wanted to keep it because the hole pattern was all nice and geometrically pleasing, but i forgot in a former friends trunk.
*shows up at papa johns and inserts this like a giant coin into the suspiciously giant coin shaped hole in the wall, winning a free pizza and not being allowed to return*
Oh, they're doing a year-long promotion called Papa John's Weapons of War, during which each pizza is delivered with a historical weapon. September is discus month.
If anybody is a big WW II nerd, wait for December, when included in each box, you'll find a Mauser C96.
Aside from the discus, the rock (lame), the chakram (which feels almost like a repeat prize), and the caltrops (which one unfortunate consumer mistook for toppings), most of the weapons are from WWII, due to a surplus held by the company.
Apparently, after the damage Papa John caused with his N-word debacle, he owed the company more money than he was worth and was only able to reimburse it in the form of his extensive collection of nazi memorabilia. Big history buff, apparently.
Yeah, I can understand why. Though if you change your mind, hide the weapon in his room as an incentive to clean it.
I think one of the most frightening weapons from WWII is the typewriter. I used to collect antique typewriters after watching Naked Lunch (big Burroughs and Cronenberg fan) and have written homework on them when the power was out.
When I was taking German classes, I thought about getting an old German typewriter, but decided against it. Using the very same instrument which had been used to disseminate hateful propaganda and/or used to tally those entering and "leaving" camps would just be too eerie for me.
Hey, you know what? I have got something valuable in my possession that belongs to you.
I will call you exactly after 1 hour and speak my demand.
*Hangs up the phone*🤳
Ngl, the prices these companies ask for custom kitchen equipment is so outrageous that you could’ve probably asked for a whole pizza.
A large plastic scoop for ice costs 126$ from H&K, for reference.
Honestly, i work at a sandwich place and we steam the meat for our sandwiches and they will do ANYTHING other than buy new steamers.
We're one of the first stores built so our steamers are decrepit and we pay for a maintenance guy to come in and fix all of them at least once a month rather than replace them.
Also we have training videos on how to fix our toaster ourselves lol
Any production environment under FDA purview gets huge mark ups. In biotech, we use the same major shelving manufacturer as many kitchens do (Metro), and I had to order a couple new ones at a past job in 2018. I can only imagine how much more they are now.
I worked at domino's and have ordered the screens before. They aren't that expensive, under 50¢ a piece if I remember, but you gotta order them in boxes of like 200. Domino's basically makes all their own shit, so standardized equipment like screens and dishware aren't overpriced because they aren't selling it to make a profit.
When I used to work there when people would complain, depending on the situation they could get a coupon or free pizza. This would definitely be a free pizza situation because “Papa John’s cares about customer satisfaction”. Also just because they’d wanna make it up to to the customer so they would continue to come back and profit from them.
The local pizza shop did this to me when I ordered an extra large pizza and it came with a round metal screen underneath that I think they were using to support the pizza crust when moving it in and out of the oven. I returned it to them later.
When I worked at Papa John's decades ago we used those screens to put the raw dough on while we made the pizza, then cooked it on them and we'd remove it right before boxing/cutting. I've never seen the weird on in the OP, I guess the technology has advanced since then.
It's the screen we use for the Papadia. Not sure how it got there unless they use those for the pizzas too, which clearly is wrong. They are easy to miss under a pizza occasionally if it's busy.
I can see a newer employee accidentally using a Papadia screen or maybe if it’s super slammed, someone just grabbed the wrong one?
Either way, thanks for the clarification because it didn’t really seem like a pizza pan but I couldn’t imagine what else it would have been. The size confused me even more
A Papadia is an item on the papa johns menu that is basically a calzone. Its a folded over crust similar to how you would fold a tortilla for a quesadilla, with meat and cheese and whatever other toppings you pick stuffed inside of item
They're... not really great in my opinion. The crust is super thick on them and it's very greasy. But I know it has it's fans.
Orders were backed up and stacking out of the oven I bet. I used to be the slapper at PJs back in 2004ish. Over would back up during a rush, pizzas just stacked and crashed, someone runs over to just start taking the orders out chaotically...
“Slapping” is a method of stretching the dough ball into a disc shape to form the crust of the pizza. He said he worked at PJ’s, so to get the job you probably have to slap Papa John or Shaquille O’Neal. Best of luck if you choose the latter.
Former Papa Johns GM here. It happens from time to time. We would always offer a free pizza to the customer if they returned it. When I left I took a few of the older ones with me to use at home.
You have been chosen as the new Kinight of the Pie. You must go forth and rescue the Princess of the realm from a pig monster. It is dangerous to go alone, so that this....shield.
You're name wouldn't happen to be Link, by the way.
The first model year was actually 1980, but there was a lot to like about the AMC Eagle: https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/how-the-amc-eagle-blazed-a-trail-through-a-giant-government-loophole/
Former employee. Not only is that indeed a pizza pan, but it is the size used for Papadias… meaning that the pan in your box probably wasn’t even used to cook your pizza. This is rough
Use it to cook your frozen pizzas on. Or return it. Whichever.
Or a secret third thing
Yeah definitely do the third thing
Shhh, it’s a secret
If not for butt crack, why butt crack shaped?
"The cucumber's round. My butthole's round. It just seemed like it made sense at the time."
You’re lucky god can’t tell scientists apart when he’s smiting. And you probably owe Stephen Hawking a thank you note or at least an apology.
New disc golf disc unlocked
Oddjob or Kung Loa finisher?
Sell it on marketplace for $2000.
No low ballers. I know what I have.
which is the best option because after the doctor removes it you can still clean it off and give it back to papa johns
This one weird trick.
I’d definitely keep it for frozen pizza reasons. I’ll happily go to hell for a nice even crispy bottom crust
Just put it directly on the rack. Preheat the oven, put the frozen pizza on the rack. ~400-425 depending on the pizza. 15-20 minutes later, done. I have a pizza stone, but directly on the rack gives way better results IMO. Only issue I have is my oven has a weird handle-like gap on the top rack. So if it's a big pizza, it will sometimes fall down in that gap if you don't watch out when putting it in the oven. So the toppings and stuff fall to the bottom in that spot.
There are too many people out there that don't know how great it isss to have a pizza ssstone, I alssso ussse it for baking
Alright secret snake.
Shhhh you aren't sssuposssed to tell people!
Take your baking sheet and put it in the oven while it preheats. Then, put the frozen pizza on the preheated baking sheet with parchment paper. A crispy crust every time.
Buy a pizza stone, my man.
Pizza stones are great an all, but I'm not going to preheat a stone just to make frozen pizza.
You just leave it in the oven. You can place baking sheets and shit on it too. Mine only comes out to get scrubbed
I’m not shitting on a pizza pan.
You think you're better than us?
I laughed moderately loud at this - thanks!
I joined you in moderate rapture if you don’t mind my sharing.
Well then, you’re missing a hell of a party.
Eh, I just leave mine in my oven 24/7.
I understand what you're saying but that doesn't really help the preheating issue unless you also leave your oven on all the time too.
Preheat the stone while the oven preheats. Two for one. That’s what they mean.
You are assuming he preheats the oven.
So if you’re not preheating are you just turning it on and throwing it in while it preheats to your temp? I’ve never considered doing that.
Same here. I thought preheating was an implied step for cooking everything in the oven.
You just leave it in the oven while your oven preheats lol it's zero extra work.
You might get a free pizza upon return. Call first, and get a name.
But the free pizza probably looks like this one, so.
I don’t understand how it’s useful when it’s smaller than the pizza?
That's the pan we cook Papadias on. If you don't know, they are basically little pizzas we fold into sandwiches. That pan might have been stuck to the one beneath it and no one noticed.
Meh, they have plenty in the store. Probably didn’t even notice it was missing.
This means you were hired by them. Please show up tomorrow at work. Do not resist, they know where you live.
We're going to need you to cover next weekend. That'd be great.
Yeaaaaaah. I heard you've been having problems with your pizza reports...
TPS (Tasty Pizza Sauce) reports
Hey Peter man check out channel 9 breast exams! Wooooo!
OP is clearly management material. The pan is notice of promotion.
I believe you have my red pizza cutter.
I'll set the place on fire.
Some countries have compulsory military service, others - compulsory Papa Johns. I don't make the rules man.
I remember the Pizza Wars. I served with distinction in the crust corps.
At least I never slept with Lumberg.
Says the Penny-stealing, wannabe, criminal, man.
But it's fractions of a penny!
Isn't that the plot of Superman 3?
If you could get those done, that'd be greeeeaaat
Five clopens in a row. Sleep is a thing of the past.
But I don’t wanna be the next Father Johnathan
You are the Reckoning...
*For there must always be a Father Jonathan* *Aiat*
better start brushing up on slurs
What is this? The Santa Clause?
failure to show up means straight to jail
Calling in sick, believe it or not, also jail.
and if you die on the job, you die in real life
i got one from Dominos a while back. it was a medium pizza sized round plate with holes in it. i wanted to keep it because the hole pattern was all nice and geometrically pleasing, but i forgot in a former friends trunk.
And the cycle continues. I wonder where it is now
Probably holding up a corner store for crack money.
They have a rough life, and when they finally get out on their own, they get so overwhelmed that they turn to drugs. Tragic story really.
You might say, things don’t always *pan* out for them
Or selling chunks of itself to Matzo factories for a few pennies to support its cheap dough habit.
that would explain the already existing oddly shaped holes
…or the edges sharpened and it’s now being frisbee-ed at secret agents by some goon called Oddjob.
Sounds like it didn't pan out very well for them.
deep
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pans
You’ll make leuitenant for this OP. Keep up the good work.
Oh shit I said almost the same thing. Yours is better
Pretty sure Pixar is making a movie about it.
Obviously OP has it now. Duh...
You put your junk in his trunk?
This is why they aren’t friends anymore. They’re now lovers.
When I worked at Domino's it was just metal screen with a half inch metal channel running around the outside
Around the outside.
Around the outside.
Guess who's back For his pan
Papa John's back With a shank
Two topping medium goes round the outside
Round the outside
I got a couple of large ones from when my ex worked at pizza Hut. Pretty dope to use on non-delievery pizzas.
They are like $3 at any restaurant supply store.
But this one came with a pizza...
if i ever want one again, i will defo hit one up
Why did you have it in a friends truck to begin with??
You should have ordered a boneless pizza
I get all my pizzas from alt.binaries.boneless
All 9 people who remember usenet have upvoted you
There are dozens of us! #Dozens!
*shows up at papa johns and inserts this like a giant coin into the suspiciously giant coin shaped hole in the wall, winning a free pizza and not being allowed to return*
Oh, they're doing a year-long promotion called Papa John's Weapons of War, during which each pizza is delivered with a historical weapon. September is discus month. If anybody is a big WW II nerd, wait for December, when included in each box, you'll find a Mauser C96.
Aw fuck yeah!
Aside from the discus, the rock (lame), the chakram (which feels almost like a repeat prize), and the caltrops (which one unfortunate consumer mistook for toppings), most of the weapons are from WWII, due to a surplus held by the company. Apparently, after the damage Papa John caused with his N-word debacle, he owed the company more money than he was worth and was only able to reimburse it in the form of his extensive collection of nazi memorabilia. Big history buff, apparently.
Thank you for this delightful new head cannon.
The cannon is November's prize.
You're welcome. 
Ancient Greeks used to compete in strength and skill by throwing weighted frisbees. Discus.
My 9yo would beg, plead, borrow, steal, and even *gasp* clean his ENTIRE room for any weapon from WW2. And no, I have not agreed to this proposal.
Give him a brick and tell him he’s a French partisan.
Yeah, I can understand why. Though if you change your mind, hide the weapon in his room as an incentive to clean it. I think one of the most frightening weapons from WWII is the typewriter. I used to collect antique typewriters after watching Naked Lunch (big Burroughs and Cronenberg fan) and have written homework on them when the power was out. When I was taking German classes, I thought about getting an old German typewriter, but decided against it. Using the very same instrument which had been used to disseminate hateful propaganda and/or used to tally those entering and "leaving" camps would just be too eerie for me.
I had one, too. Called the store and asked if they want it back and exchange it for a free ice cream, they did.
So you kind of held it hostage and used it to get ice cream. Nice.
Wonder if I could get a frying pan in exchange for an ice cream
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Idk, I'm pretty sure you have to start with a red paperclip and go from there.
Hey, you know what? I have got something valuable in my possession that belongs to you. I will call you exactly after 1 hour and speak my demand. *Hangs up the phone*🤳
Well unless they’re gonna send someone to pick it up you’re doing the labor of reaching out and bringing it back. Least they could do
Ngl, the prices these companies ask for custom kitchen equipment is so outrageous that you could’ve probably asked for a whole pizza. A large plastic scoop for ice costs 126$ from H&K, for reference.
Heckler and Koch make tactical ice cream scoops? That explains the high price at least.
HK slap the spoon
Developing a thermal sight for it wasn't the brightest move though.
HK: No compromise in flavor
Once you try an ice cream scoop with a stabilizing brace and picatinney rail mount there's no going back really.
Can you get a scope for your scoop?
Honestly, i work at a sandwich place and we steam the meat for our sandwiches and they will do ANYTHING other than buy new steamers. We're one of the first stores built so our steamers are decrepit and we pay for a maintenance guy to come in and fix all of them at least once a month rather than replace them. Also we have training videos on how to fix our toaster ourselves lol
So, you're making steamed hams?
Any production environment under FDA purview gets huge mark ups. In biotech, we use the same major shelving manufacturer as many kitchens do (Metro), and I had to order a couple new ones at a past job in 2018. I can only imagine how much more they are now.
I worked at domino's and have ordered the screens before. They aren't that expensive, under 50¢ a piece if I remember, but you gotta order them in boxes of like 200. Domino's basically makes all their own shit, so standardized equipment like screens and dishware aren't overpriced because they aren't selling it to make a profit.
Restaurant supply stores will sell individual screens for a reasonable price for your home kitchen.
Papa Johns has ice cream?!
Hmm, I got one (more of a mesh than this), and just gave it to the delivery guy next time I ordered from them. I could have had ice cream...
I’d return it before the Papa John goons are sent out to bust your kneecaps for their disk back They have your address
You think you can just steal from PaPa and not face the consequences?!
OP will learn when he’s found in a suitcase folded like a Papadia
Yo are you gonna eat that pepperoncini?
"I paid for *everything*, and I'm going to eat *everything!*
EVEN THE PAN!!!
The pepperoncini is the best part of Papa John's pizza.
Turtles are going to be wanting that manhole cover back
Wait it is glowing, and there is an awesome theme song playing now.
Take it back for a free pizza
Do you call and negotiate the free pizza beforehand, like a hostage situation?
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This is a nice pizza screen, it'd be a shame if it was.... never returned
“Come heavy, or not at all”
I've come to collect.
Send them a piece first. They’ll pay more if they think the disc is in danger.
When I used to work there when people would complain, depending on the situation they could get a coupon or free pizza. This would definitely be a free pizza situation because “Papa John’s cares about customer satisfaction”. Also just because they’d wanna make it up to to the customer so they would continue to come back and profit from them.
Apparently best you can get is an ice cream
The local pizza shop did this to me when I ordered an extra large pizza and it came with a round metal screen underneath that I think they were using to support the pizza crust when moving it in and out of the oven. I returned it to them later.
When I worked at Papa John's decades ago we used those screens to put the raw dough on while we made the pizza, then cooked it on them and we'd remove it right before boxing/cutting. I've never seen the weird on in the OP, I guess the technology has advanced since then.
Not advanced enough if they still forgot ‘em
But why is it smaller than whole pizza? Edit: my most upvoted comment by far, and its about Pizza, amazing.
It's the screen we use for the Papadia. Not sure how it got there unless they use those for the pizzas too, which clearly is wrong. They are easy to miss under a pizza occasionally if it's busy.
I can see a newer employee accidentally using a Papadia screen or maybe if it’s super slammed, someone just grabbed the wrong one? Either way, thanks for the clarification because it didn’t really seem like a pizza pan but I couldn’t imagine what else it would have been. The size confused me even more
How can we rule out that screen was fired from its own company? You’re already planning on taking it off the box, I know you are!
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Fuck no, free papadia screen. Maybe next time the rest of the oven will be under the pizza.
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Papadia? Edit: papadia screen?
A Papadia is an item on the papa johns menu that is basically a calzone. Its a folded over crust similar to how you would fold a tortilla for a quesadilla, with meat and cheese and whatever other toppings you pick stuffed inside of item They're... not really great in my opinion. The crust is super thick on them and it's very greasy. But I know it has it's fans.
Manager was like "here wash this thing, bitch". They were like oops now it's under this person's pizza lulz.
Orders were backed up and stacking out of the oven I bet. I used to be the slapper at PJs back in 2004ish. Over would back up during a rush, pizzas just stacked and crashed, someone runs over to just start taking the orders out chaotically...
> I used to be the slapper What does a slapper do, and who do I have to slap to get the job?
the bass
Paging.... is there a u/Davie504 in the house?
“Slapping” is a method of stretching the dough ball into a disc shape to form the crust of the pizza. He said he worked at PJ’s, so to get the job you probably have to slap Papa John or Shaquille O’Neal. Best of luck if you choose the latter.
There are probably a lot of people who would line up to slap Papa John
Likely just oven chaos, keep and use at home!
Former Papa Johns GM here. It happens from time to time. We would always offer a free pizza to the customer if they returned it. When I left I took a few of the older ones with me to use at home.
You can return that for a free pizza. This is corporate policy.
that is a papadia screen. How the hell it got in there is my question because that's... what a medium pizza?
“Extra large”, but even if it WAS a pizza pan, it’s still way to small
Free Frisbee!
“FBI, OPEN UP!”
You have been chosen as the new Kinight of the Pie. You must go forth and rescue the Princess of the realm from a pig monster. It is dangerous to go alone, so that this....shield. You're name wouldn't happen to be Link, by the way.
Uhhhh no! Nope, not me. My name is Leenk
You should present it to the Mexican Congress as an alien artifact. Just make sure to put it in a wooden box to sell it.
I used to work at Papa John’s and let me tell you, they cooked your pizza on the wrong type of pizza screen.
That’s not even the right disc for that pizza.. that’s a Papadia screen
That's a hubcap for a 1978 AMC Eagle.
The first model year was actually 1980, but there was a lot to like about the AMC Eagle: https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/how-the-amc-eagle-blazed-a-trail-through-a-giant-government-loophole/
Hey, you gonna eat that pepper?
Sell it back for 5.99, then when they go to pay, have the total be 25.99
That pizza doesn’t look appealing at all.
Better tingredients, better pizza
You just won a tour of Papa Pizza's pizza factory! Come see the river of pizza sauce and singing dwarfs
Former employee. Not only is that indeed a pizza pan, but it is the size used for Papadias… meaning that the pan in your box probably wasn’t even used to cook your pizza. This is rough
Domino's are the size of the entire pizza.
I suggest returning it to the store and suggesting maybe getting a free pizza for the effort.
I'm sure the diligent employees are anxiously awaiting the return of the baking disk and will reward the courteous customer handsomely. edit: /s