Can I order pizza without the crust at Pizza Hut or other pizza chain stores?

Sure, go for it. I doubt the order taker would have the foggiest idea what you are talking about. What would you expect them to do with the cheese?

I doubt it. Maybe you could order the toppings cold and bake them at home? In Mexico, and some Mexican restaurants there is a dish called queso fundido that is just melted cheeses and crumbled spicy sausage. Your supposed to take a fork and put a bunch on a soft tortilla and you can add some green sauce, cilantro, or avocado if you want. It’s delicious. You could just eat the melted cheese and other stuff without the tortilla though. So, your idea isn’t crazy. I just think a pizza place might worry about the cheese sticking to the pans or something. Can’t hurt to ask though.

I don’t like the bread part either, but I just scrape off the good stuff and throw the rest away.

Why not just buy the original ingredients and cook it up yourself? A pizza place is going to charge you premium prices for delivering them to you. It would be something of a mess in a box too I would think.

@Bellatrix put it perfectly, there’s no point in ordering!

If her fridge is empty now and the OP wants something delivered there might be a point.

Don’t you have grocery stores over there? What about home delivery groceries? Just in case the OP is housebound, which I don’t think he is given his earlier questions. Ham, cheese and pineapple, sauce to replicate the pizza sauce aren’t exotic ingredients. I could walk around the corner and get those ingredients from our local 7–11 store.

My only point is we don’t know the situation. I see no problem suggesting buying the groceries himself, it just seemed like jellies were making assumptions about the particular situation. I felt like the OP was ready to dial the phone within the next ten minutes. I don’t know where the OP lives, but my closest market in TN was 5 miles away, unless I went to the gas station little store on the corner. Many paces in America are very rural. Many college students live on campus and don’t have cars. The OP might be 15 years old and can’t drive. I have no idea. Even if the store was three blocks, sometimes your in your jammies and just want the food to come to you.

@JLeslie if you don’t know his situation, then the advice I gave is perfectly legitimate and stands as a sensible solution. It will cost him a lot more to have a pizza delivery service heat the ingredients (if they will even agree to do it). I’m sure he can say if this isn’t possible. However, I don’t think he is 15 and he was asking how long people had spent sitting in a fast-food establishment to use the free wi-fi (if I recall correctly), so I don’t think he’s in a rural area.

Ok, but do you think a 30+ year old doesn’t realize you can buy sauce, mozzarella, pepperoni and onion at the supermarket? And, that it will be cheaper? Or, whatever toppings he likes. I’m thinking he wants to order it in for some reason.

I don’t think we can assume he thought of it since he’s asking this. I would say it would be cheaper. Perhaps not for one occasion, but if you work out how many meals he can cook with the ingredients and average the cost.

I also don’t think there’s anything wrong (in Social) with suggesting alternatives to the suggestion being asked about. Perhaps he hasn’t thought about going and getting some ham, dicing it, putting it in a pan with some pineapple and perhaps diced tomato, heating it up and then putting cheese on top and putting it under the grill. Would be quicker than the pizza delivery place too.

@Bellatrix I don’t think there is anything wrong with suggesting alternatives. I was just throwing out the comment it makes sense to order pizza in if he feels like keeping his feet up and just dialing the phone. If that is the case, then like I said that would be the point. @ZEPHYRA said there is no point in ordering with a big exclamation mark. I found that to be dismissive. I really had no problem with your answer. I think there is no point in buying a $4 coffee at Starbucks every day, but some people like to indulge in it, so they are entitled if they have the money to do it.

I don’t know if it will work if they try to make it. The crust keeps the cheese and sauce from sticking to the pan, and holds the whole thing together. Molten cheese + sauce on hot metal turns into disgusting burnt crap really quickly otherwise. When I worked at a pizza place they used thin metal pans that looked like giant spatulas for regular pizza, or cast-iron pans for deep dish. You’d probably need a glass or ceramic dish to bake something like this.

But if you can find a really service-oriented, understanding place, you might be able to make it happen. If you want an offbeat special order done well, try to become a regular, get to know the manager, and tip well.

I will stick my neck out here and say: No. I can’t see how they would make it. The bread part of the pizza is coated.with corn meal on the the bottom so it does not stick in the oven. They then use the large spatula to pick it up and put it in the box. If it was just toppings they would have a mess and would likely stick to the oven. Melted sugar from the pineapple would be awful to clean up.
I have a pizza stone that got apple pie filling on it and it never recovered.

You’d end up with cheese, ham, pineapple, and cardboard.
The pizza place would end up with a messy pan to clean.
Somehow I doubt they would do this for you.

Order the whole pizza and scrape off the ingredients.

They won’t do that, what would be the point? Why don’t you just buy whatever toppings you want, throw them in a Pyrex, and bake them in your oven?

I don’t eat crust either, so I order pizzas with thin crust (more space for toppings and less waste) and double the toppings, then eat just the toppings. That works for me.

My SO and kids all like this option as well, but they do eat the crust.

Why? Go buy the stuff in the market and do it yourself. You get off cheaper and can have a wider variety of ingredients.

Try putting all the top ingredients on pasta. The toppings aren’t called that for nothing. They have to go on top of something.
I can hear pizza guys now, “This guy comes in and wants just the toppings We don’t even have a containers to put the stuff in for him. What a _____!”

Side question: when I see the word crust, to me that means the edge of the pizza. I knew what the OP wanted by their further description, but not by the main question. Did everyone understand right away what he meant by crust?

@Sunny2 Interesting idea. Then the OP can save the pasta for later. That is if the pizza place has pasta.

The crust is the best part!

I’m not sure if a pizza place would do it, but I have no clue why you’d pay $10+ for mush in a pizza box. Just make it yourself.

Without the crust, it isn’t pizza. Pizza originally was a way to use the left over dough that made the bread. Like the way my mom made little cinnamon and sugar wafers with left over pie crust.
Ask the pizza guys to do what ever. But pizza is all about the dough, not the shit you put on top.

@JLeslie good point. I save the crispy, well done edges, but I throw away the usually wet, goey bottom part of the crust.

@YARNLADY If you get thin crust, it’s all crispy.

@livelaughlove21 Yes, it is. On the rare occasion I order my own pizza, or someone asks me, I get thin crust.

I don’t think so, not at a regular pizza restaurant. I used to work at a pizza restaurant, and it would not be feasible to cook those ingredients in a pizza oven, because it would wreck the surface of the oven.

On the other hand, if you wanted something similar, you might be able to request that at a more traditional Italian restaurant, because they could put the ingredients in a skillet or stoneware dish and then either cook it on the stove, or put the stoneware plate/bowl into the oven and kind of bake it.

I have had something similar in Mexican restaurants with a dish called Rajas Poblanos. They take strips of poblano chili peppers, mix in some Mexican cheese, such as Queso Blanco, or Queso Fresco, then they put it in a stoneware dish and put cook that under the broiler. You could probably do that at home, too with your mozzarella cheese and other toppings. You could also simply put the ingredients in a bowl and put it in the microwave, although you won’t get that crispy finish on top.