[CuriouslyC]

The beauty of getting a super fresh pie baked in a blisteringly hot oven must be experienced to be understood. The reason for this is that when a pie is fresh out of a super-hot oven, the exterior of the crust is very crispy, while the interior is so moist and light it's like biting through foam. As the pizza sits, heat continues to travel from the exterior to the interior, and moisture travels from the interior to the exterior, resulting in a crust that has a slight leathery character, and an interior that is firm and quite chewy.

Unfortunately, there is no way to prevent this process, heat retaining delivery bag or no. You just have to get it and eat it fast :)

[jghn]

One issue is that most Americans aren't used to that sort of pizza, like a proper neapolitan fresh out of a hot oven - rather we're mainly already used to the delivery style pizza which generally has been made to be more forgiving of the rigors of the delivery process.

There are dozens of pizza spots within a couple of miles of me. The ones that are my gotos for delivery are not the ones I'd go to in person and vice versa. The best pizzas are in the latter category, but getting those delivery quickly moves them very far down the rankings.