Slicing pizza can ruin the taste, texture and experience of eating the food

There are few things better than a pizza, but if you don’t order it correctly, disaster will often occur. And slicing your takeaway pizza too early is a definite no-no.

As the adage goes: even bad pizza is kind of good. So when we hear there’s a way to make your takeaway pizza even better, you’d best believe we’re taking notes.

The molten cheese and sauce will seep and expose the crust to moisture when it is sliced.

Keep things crisp

Ordering your pizza uncut has been making the rounds and we wanted to know why. It turns out that opting for an unsliced pizza makes for a superior pie for a few reasons. The first being that in slicing a pizza straight out of the oven, the still molten cheese and sauce will seep and expose the crust to moisture and no one likes a soggy bottom.

The more slices there are in your pizza, the more windows there are for heat to escape.

Keep things hot

Opening a window when you’ve got the heater on is never a good idea. Same goes for pizza. Just follow us on this one. The more slices there are in your pizza, the more windows there are for heat to escape. We like our pizza hot, thank you.

Not slicing could minimise the toppings from sliding off when you grab a slice.

Maintain integrity

The third reason is a little science lesson in thermodynamics. It could minimise the toppings from sliding off when you grab a slice. If you cut a pizza right after it comes out of the oven, it reasons that the still oozing cheese is going to fuse once again as it cools. So you’ve got an unstable structure (the cut base) with a landlord special (the melted cheese patched over the top) and a houseparty about to start (hands grabbing greedily at each slice). It’s a recipe for disaster.

You get to determine how many slices your margherita becomes so no more fighting over the last piece.

The choice is yours

The final reason why an uncut pizza is the way of the future is choice. You get to determine how many slices your margherita becomes – no more fighting over the last piece! Or if you’re in your chaotic evil era, you could fold the whole disk in half and hoe in. We won’t judge if you won’t.

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Originally published as Slicing pizza can ruin the taste, texture and experience of eating the food