What is St. Louis Style Pizza?

Digital Marketing Leadership with Alex Wolk

For a moment, forget everything known about pizza. Forget about the usual mozzarella-driven cheese blend on top, forget about the taste you expect from a pie, lastly, forget about the aroma you've come to expect from your favorite feel-good meal. Alright, now we are working with a clean slate, I will share some opinions and facts about the Saint Louis-style pie and why it's a regional fan favorite. Let's start with the cheese.

What kind of cheese is on this pizza? St. Louis-style pie is made with Provel, a processed blend which is said to be a mix of cheddar, provolone, as well as a swiss cheese. This cheese melts better than any other cheese since its what its designed to do. By increasing the amount of fat and doing the same for the posture during production the Provel will acquires a gooey appeal Like the one that cheese sauce has. The kind which makes people want to swipe up all the drops from the pan with your finger as you eat it. It may look unfamiliar to at first glance. Do not let this keep you from experiencing the meltiest cheese out there! There are some which may disagree on the flavor profile of Provel, but we will mention this once again since this is an objective fact, It is the meltiest cheese out there.
What else makes Saint Louis-style pie so unique? The ultra thin pie. It's made with unleavened, yeast-free dough. Giving the texture of akin to a cracker than the traditional. The dough is capable of supporting plenty of toppings. Good thing since they like to pile all sorts of goodies right in The Gateway City. These are mad from yeast to help it rise. Saint Louis-style pie has an ultra-thin, crackery-dare we say it? Tortilla chip-like feeling. Also helping with its shelf life being longer.

Types of Pizzas Like a good plate of nachos, a Louis-style pie designed for sharing. Instead of wedges, sliced into squares. Party or tavern cut, for those of who are in on the lingo, each one about an inch along each side. Meaning Saint Louis-style pie is easily shared between two people or between ten or twelve. Unlike a regular pizza, committing yourself to more than you really want is not necessary. Take what you want and you can get right back to enjoying the game.

The ultimate day-after slice Now we will jump into talking about what we all love! Next day Pizza. You know how a day old pizza can get a little leathery in the crust? Not so with Imo's! That cracker is still a cracker the next day And even the third, whether You deign to refrigerate or not. As we previously mentioned, the dough is a little more dense and resilient than the standard pizza dough, giving It an abnormally long shelf life.

You know what else is as fantastic on the second day as on the first? The toppings! We could sit here all day And discuss the merits of every style of pizza. We seriously are able to. And to prove it, I will let You know That discussing these merits is how the staff of The Sauce spends most of Its waking hours. But, we are not here to tell you That one style of pizza is superior to another. We can confidently say That St. Louis pizza holds up nicely as a day after treat thanks to Its unorthodox cheese And superbly thin crust.

Noted chef And Serious Eats author, J. Kanji Lopez-Alt reached a similar conclusion as he wheeled out of STL on a road trip through the Midwest.

I invite everyone to try a pizza. You are guaranteed to love it!

IMO'S , I salute you.

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