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Pizza boxes are regularly shaped, come in 3-4 standard sizes and are made of cardboard. But they're useless once the pizza is eaten; they have to be awkwardly folded up and put in the recycle bin.
Used styrofoam packaging would be arguably useful as insulation or padding, but the pieces you get,
which have been used to cushion consumer products inside their box, are all irregularly shaped: they require a hot wire to shape to a regular thickness, and there's pieces left over which are just garbage.
So...
Pizza boxes made of styrofoam would not only conserve the heat of a fresh pizza for a longer time than cardboard, but could be made of a consistent thickness: the sides taped to the bottom and top for ease of dissasembly.
The 'za eater either uses them for their own purposes or contributes them to a charity for reuse as insulation.
Surely the best way to ensure that more food stays hot it simply to have more food in your pizza box?
http://blog.23x.net...s-a-munchy-box.html
[calum, Aug 09 2011]
//heated metal plate//
http://www.rediheat.com/
[mouseposture, Aug 10 2011]
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At a melting point of 240C, that's not much of a worry. |
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But yes, bulk shipping cost would be greater when volume is an issue. |
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styrofoam for food packaging [-] |
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Cardboard soaked in grease burns so beautifully ... watch the flames lick, twist and dance ... [-] |
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i'm not sure the move _from_ paper _to_ plastic is
the right direction. |
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You're not supposed to nuke styrofoam. [-] |
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I think reusing greasy styrofoam for anything is a recipe for rats to show up. What rat would not want to chew out a snug home from greasy and cathartic styrofoam? |
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Cardboard boxes store more compactly--in flat bales in the store before being assembled for delivery (oh, gods, the hours I have spent "making boxes"). |
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Cardboard boxes are stronger than styrofoam, for volume, cost and weight. |
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Cardboard boxes with grease stains should not be put in the recycling. |
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What [BB] said, plus 21Q, there is no heated metal
plate, they are in the hot bags alone. If they are
REALLY old school then they are in a hot box
heated with sterno, but I haven't seen those in
decades. The correct material is corrugated
cardboard. It is more expensive to ship and store
and cut my fingers when I make the boxes, but
the extra rigidity plus the extra insulation is worth
it. That is why Domino's is so popular. |
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And trust me I speak from experience as I
delivered pizza/subs/chicken for over 8 years from
a dozen different places. Look at the Domino's
box, it what his master's thesis was based on. He
didn't get his master's, but the joke is on them.
The design was then copied by all the chains. |
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Corrugated plastic machine washable, returnable (deposit?) pizza box. You just give it to the driver when they deliver the next one. |
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My pizza place does that, but the box still seems to get greasy. (They put a little circle of cardboard under the small, and that does keep the box clean). |
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In the halfbakery, even the person who claims
expertise on **pizza delivery** is challenged by
another who claims greater expertise. |
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Happy to say that I've never delivered a pizza. |
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Maybe you could put them inside a toaster that flies somehow... |
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[21], I imagine quite a bit of BS is involved in claims filing.
Why restrict yourself to just one? |
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