Gone are your days of eating cold leftover pizza in your pajamas, leaning against your open refrigerator. Make pizza better the next day with these easy tricks.
1. Reheat cold pizza face down in a pan. Slap your slice of pizza face down on a preheated skillet on medium-high heat. You can either use a cast-iron pan with a little oil, or a non-stick pan. Cook until the cheese has melted and formed a slight crust, about 5 minutes. Flip your pizza and cook on the other side for a few more minutes for a delicious melted pie.
2. Add water to the bottom of a skillet. Turn your burner to medium-low heat. Cook your pizza, crust down, for about a minute or two and add two teaspoons of water to the bottom of the pan. Cover the skillet and cook for another few minutes until the cheese has melted for a perfectly crisp crust. Devour. 
3. Waffle iron your leftover pizza. If you learn one thing from this post, it's that you need to use a waffle iron more. Grab a slice of pizza and add extra toppings to the upper left hand corner. Take the bottom corner
of the pie, and fold it up towards the toppings. Chop off the crust.
Take your folded pizza and place on a pre-heated waffle iron. Cook for about 4-5 minutes or when the crust is crispy and the cheese is gooey. The nooks in the waffle also make this excellent for dipping, so have some extra sauce on hand for an otherworldly experience.
4. Add a glass of water when you microwave pizza to avoid a soggy crust. If you want to revive a slice, but refuse to dirty an extra pan, just shove a microwave-safe glass of water into your microwave while nuking your pizza for approximately 45 seconds to a minute. That pizza will look like it just came from a wood burning oven in Naples. 
5. Make pizza eggs for the ultimate breakfast of champions. For this extremely satisfying breakfast, tear up half a slice of pizza, mix in two eggs with extra cheese, a tablespoon of milk, and a pinch of salt. Cook on a griddle or skillet until fluffy, and plate with fresh herbs. Top with hot sauce for an extra special morning.
6. Layer leftover slices to make a pizza lasagna. Pizza lasagna is a fancy way of saying pizza cake. All of a sudden regular pies look sad, right?
To make a pizza lasagna, preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Coat the bottom of a 9x9 baking dish with tomato sauce. Remove the crust from six slices of pizza and lie two face up on the pan over the tomato sauce. Add a layer of ricotta, mozzarella, and more tomato sauce. Repeat this step for another layer. Top the second round of fillings with two slices of pizza face down and drizzle a bit more tomato sauce on top. Coat heavily with mozzarella and parmesan. Cook for thirty minutes covered, and another ten minutes uncovered. Serve and become everyone's best friend forever. 7. Fry squares of pizza to make pizza croutons. If you're a good friend, nay, a good person, you'll make this for an ailing friend who's too sick for a slice. Take one slice of pizza and remove the crust. Slice into strips and then cube those strips to make similarly paired squares of pizza. Take your squares and sandwich them together with the cheese facing in towards each other.
Heat up a panini press like Bella's Panini Maker and place your sandwiched squares on the grill pressing down. If you don't have a panini press, use a pan on medium high heat, pressing down on the squares with the back of a spatula. Cook for upwards of five minutes or until the cheese has fused together to create the most perfect little grilled cheeses. Sprinkle over a soup and/or salad.
8. Soak leftover pizza in eggs and milk to make a savory bread pudding. This falls under the "could be disgusting but what am I going to do with 5 slices of pizza that are four days old" category. Good news for everyone is that pizza bread pudding is far more delicious than it should be, probably because it's pizza french toast — with cheese.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. For every one slice of pizza, crack 1-2 eggs into a bowl(so for four slices you'll need around half a dozen eggs). Mix eggs with 3/4 of a cup of whole milk, a tablespoon of fresh herbs such as oregano and basil, and half a cup of freshly grated parmesan. Stir until fully combined and add roughly torn up slices of pizza. If you'd like to add more cheese or some vegetables like mushrooms or onions, you can add up to a handful of each topping. Let this mixture sit for a minimum of 30 minutes.
Pour your bread pudding mixture into a baking dish. Top with more grated parmesan and cook for 45 minutes, or until the top has become crunchy and golden brown.
9. Melt two slices of pizza together with shredded cheese. How is this not more of a thing? Fusing two slices of goodness together with more cheese? Take two slices of pizza and add grated mozzarella or cheddar in the middle. You can keep the crusts or remove them. Place your sandwiched pizza on hot pan at medium high heat or on a panini machine. If heating in a pan cook for three minutes on each side. 
10. Jazz up your pizza by adding high-quality ingredients. Pimp your pizza out with a drizzle of olive oil, extra cheese, fresh basic, or pesto — whatever you have readily available. Reheat using any of the above methods.
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