Protect Your Mouth From Hot Pizza With Mortadella Slices
As an avid eater, I burn my mouth quite often. Pizza is especially dangerous because cheese never cools as quickly as you’d like. (Plus, the pizza is just delicious, hot! The facts don’t care about your feelings!) If, like me, you are prone to such injuries, I have a solution: Cover a hot slice of pizza with cold mortadella slices.
I came up with this plan is not alone, but I was inspired NYC100 from Bon Appetit , in which there is a pizza. I don’t know if Ops intended to use mortadella for thermal insulation, but it is. Last night, to test my theory, I made a (not pictured, very ugly) pizza in a cast iron skillet with handfuls of bubbling cheese. As soon as I took it out of the oven, I put some whimsical bologna slices on top of the pizza, cut it into slices and took a bite (which is not entirely fearless). It was hot — the sauce that touched the corners of my lips told me this — but my palate remained intact, protected by a wonderful pork product. Plus, the mortadella tasted amazing. The heat from the pizza melted, but did not completely melt, the small circles of fat and spread the aromas.
It was a very enjoyable experience and we have to thank the appetizer again for the many gifts it gives us. Could you use other types of meat? Maybe, but I think some – like prosciutto – might be too slippery and slip off right after the first bite. Mortadella has a more textured surface that helps it stay in place, protecting your mouth until the last bite.