It’s all about HOW you cook it.

Simply Recipes / Mike Lang

The answer to “Should we have pizza for dinner?”

is always YES for my family.

Pepperoni pizza topped with fresh basil leaves

Simply Recipes / Mike Lang

It’s the lazy meal hero I keep in the freezer for emergencies.

Frozen pizza is easy, which makes it extremely lovable for this busy mom.

The dough is par-baked and the sauce and cheese are added raw, to be cooked in the oven.

Boxes of frozen pizza staked on a counter

Simply Recipes / Nick Evans

Frozen pizza needs to be baked at a much higher temperature.

Restaurants and home cooks with ambitions for restaurant-caliber pizza use professional ovens that get up to 900F.

The same cooking technique applies to frozen pizza.

A slice being lifted up from an Italian Sausage Deep Dish Pizza.

Sally Vargas

Place a pizza stone (if you have one) or a baking sheet on the oven rack.

While the oven preheats,make a salador play a round of Uno with the kids.

Then unwrap and carefully place the frozen pizza on the stone or baking sheet.

How long it takes to bake really depends on the brand and punch in of pizza.

We’re a Trader Joe’s pepperoni pizza family.

The instructions on the box say to bake it for about 10 minutes in a 425F oven.

Don’t start a new game of Unostay near the oven and check the pizza every minute or two.

It won’t take long.

If you blast it with high heat, the outside will burn and the inside will remain frozen.

There are amazing meatless and dairy-free frozen pizza options in the market today.

From cauliflower crust to nut-based cheese, the ingredients cook differently than flour-based crust and dairy cheese.

For those reasons, stick to the instructions provided on the pizza box.