Leftover Pizza Breakfast

The short idea is just heat up the pizza in a pan, take it out to put in scrambled eggs, put the pizza top down on those eggs, and take them out after a minute or so.

Breakfast Pizza

It’s one of the best and easiest things in the world to grab a slice of cold pizza the next morning. No one in the whole world needs any instructions or suggestions to make that good.

If you were the type of person that felt that eggs should be involved in a breakfast, but also wanted to enjoy that leftover pizza, then I have something for you.

If you’re like me, you’ve tried a few ways to get eggs onto your pizza. Cooking them first then putting on top just act like a loose second layer that spills everywhere when you pick it up. Cracking an egg on top of pizza doesn’t really work either. Most of the ways you cook a few slices of left over pizza either wouldn’t cook that egg on top or it would slip off.

My method is easy and handles all of these issues

How to Get Eggs on Leftover Pizza

  1. Warm the frying pan on Medium

  2. Put the leftover pizza slices normal side up in the pan. Cover to warm top of pizza (optional: add 1 Tbsp. water to pan for steam cooking)

  3. Scramble an egg in a small bowl while slices warm

  4. Remove pizza from pan and keep nearby

  5. Turn burner to Medium Low and add butter to pan

  6. Pour scrambled egg into pan

  7. After 30 sec. or so, place pizza slices cheese side down into scrambled eggs

  8. After another 30 seconds or so, flip slices crust side down onto plates

  9. Enjoy

How to Deal With Spicy Hands

The short answer is rub flour on them. Just regular cheap baking flour seems to absorb the spicy oils. You probably want to wash your hands first to get off anything else, but if you’re chopping peppers or making hot sauce, sometimes there’s something still there that you can’t get rid of.

I grow peppers and make salsas and hot sauces. I also try to wear rubber gloves to avoid getting the pepper oils in between my fingers and other places that just burn forever. Sometimes those gloves break or the stuff flows down the back of the wrist while I’m working. Conventional wisdom that doesn’t work involves things like milk, although that’s like a spicy mouth suggestion usually.

The flour idea is kind of like putting your phone in rice if you drop it in water. Rice and flour both absorb liquids pretty readily. Salt does too. I haven’t tested that. I’m just sharing here that a good handful of flour on some hands that have been working with peppers solves some problems. t

You might get the same result dunking your hands in rice or salt. I haven’t tested that. Flour seemed cheaper to me but I haven’t checked.

Anyway, this seemed kind of like a new idea. I haven’t really checked other places. It’s possible other people got here before I did. This’ll just be more support for the idea, if that’s the case.

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