Why are pizzas round when ovens are square and pizza boxes square?

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Seems like a waste of available space. If my calculations are correct, a circle shaped area is 78.5% of a square's area, when both share the same width/diameter. There's room for lots of extra ingredients or toppings.

MHO will go out to the most inventive answer. Too serious and you'll get disqualified.

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Accepted Answer

Speaking as someone that works in pizza, it is UNBELIEVABLY easier to make round pizza compared to square pizza. Making square pizza, or anything Detroit-style, requires equipment that we don’t currently have. Mainly, square pans. You can absolutely stretch out dough to fit in any square pan of any size without too much issue but free handing it is incredibly difficult. And even then, there’s no guarantee it would keep its square shape if you tried that. Trust me, we’ve all been bored and tried to make non-circle shaped pizzas before, square pizzas, triangle pizzas, heart shaped pizzas are easier to make by hand but it honestly comes out looking a bit like a kidney bean once it’s done cooking. In terms of physics, there’s no way to free-hand stretch pizza dough into a square and guarantee a square shape without a pan

RandomGirl42 · Accepted Answer

So that you will understand women. 😊

NathanDavis · Accepted Answer

the space in both, the ovens and the boxes are there for the air and heat to flow around...  if they were to close to either walls, they would overcook/overheat... overgrow and get sticky, lol

Iron_Man · Accepted Answer

Because the frying pans that they put the pizzas on are square they don’t want to buy a bunch of new circular frying pans

James The Foodie · Accepted Answer

Pizzas are round because they began as edible wheels of happiness, not geometric projects 😄

Round dough spins better in the air, bakes more evenly, and lets the heat flow smoothly, like a warm Italian hug. Square boxes are cheaper to make and easier to fold. And the empty corners? That’s not wasted space, that’s official crust-crumb parking and garlic-scent circulation area.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Nearly ALL pies are round yet are placed in square boxes! However, SOME people make square or even rectangular pizzas. At Vincent's, they're more ovular. I just got pizza crusts at the food bank 2 days ago that are shaped like large capsules, about 16" long, 5" across and round on both ends.
Most records are also round but nearly all of them come in a square container.

Nikki1989 · Answer

Well, some pizzas are square and some boxes are round. Quite the conundrum!

Genie23 · Answer

The person who made the first ever pizza was trying to tell us that once we have a slice of it, it will make our world go round. Hence, the round pizzas. So, everyone else just followed.

Sunrising · Answer

If they made round ovens you would have to live in a round lighthouse, or they wouldn't fit in a square room with square cupboards etc.

darkcloud1945 · Answer

One box fits both pies, which is cheaper than 2 separate boxes. Also saves space by storing only one type of box in a small shop

sage2021 · Answer

Little Caesars makes square pizza's 🍕 and puts them in a square box.

thegreenyogi · Answer

Circles are much more fun, they're flexible.

MrChinaski · Answer

Corners are more likely to burn.

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