Officially the first Pizzeria in America doing this

It should be known that we're making our dough using 100% Kamut® flour. There's a lot of really great and scientific  info on their site and in this press release, but I'm just going to quickly explain why I think its important for Slicetruck.

• People who are sensitive to gluten typically digest food made out of Kamut flour with no problem. Reason being that over the last 100 years we've (biotech companies) been hybridizing and cross pollinating wheat at a rate faster than our (human) digestive systems have been evolving, resulting in more and more people having problems digesting wheat. Kamut is an ancient heirloom grain that has never been hybridized or cross pollinated. Its the exact same grain as people were using 4000 years ago in Mesopotamia and is always grown organically. 
• I've never considered gluten to be a problem for me but when I eat our pizza made with 100% Kamut flour I feel full but without the bloating that I typically experience when I eat a bunch of pizza. Until now I'd always thought that was a result of the cheese but as we were crafting this dough over the last 18 months we did a lot of side by side tests using other flours and the physical reaction to dough not made with Kamut was almost immediate and very obvious.
• Over 300 pizzerias in Italy are making dough using Kamut and we're officially the first one in the United States to use it for pizza.
• Finally, but most importantly, our dough made with Kamut tastes just the way we want it to (amazingly). If we didn't believe this was the absolute best tasting crust we could make we would have used a different flour (and we've tried a lot of recipes with many control groups and many flours).

Anyway, just wanted to officially post something about this. We're really glad to of come across this flour and we're really excited about it. If it wasn't for the fact that people who have a problem with gluten can easily digest Kamut flour, I definitely would have kept this a secret.

The Order of Importance

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this and the order of importance for a pizza goes like this:

Crust is the most important, requires the most effort and is most commonly bad. Its because of the three factors that come into play for this component, the dough recipe, the proofing time and the style that the pizza is cooked. If only one is missed the crust won't be right.

Sauce is 2nd most important and is 2nd most commonly bad for a few reasons, mainly because its cheaper and quicker to doctor up some pre made sauce but also because there are a bunch of dumb ideas/secrets/shortcuts swirling around about how to make sauce.

Out of the three, Cheese is the least important because its the easiest to do right. All you need to do is anti-up and buy good cheese. A LOT of places cover up a crap pizza with good cheese and think they're doing everyone a favor. (the idea of covering some garbage food up with cheese is extremely common and actually goes far beyond pizza and doesn't even require good cheese)

If I had the choice to eat a pizza with great sauce, great crust and a lower quality mozzarella or great quality mozz with poorly executed sauce and crust, I'd say its a no-brainer and go with the first option.

If your goal is to make the greatest pizza ever know, which ours is, they're all important, but there is an order of importance.

We're Open Open Now

Our hours of operation for 2012 Sawtelle blvd are officially Monday - Saturday 11:30 am - 9:00 pm. We'll be closed on Sundays (probably until football season starts).

We're going to start delivering this week (Still working on this, next week hopefully). The store's number is 310-444-9550. We'll be delivering within about a mile of the location. Also consider calling in for a pickup, as I've always found running out to pick up a pizza to be a nice errand.

We're really encouraged by the response of the neighborhood. We're excited to be your go to place and we're excited to have you tell your friends who live elsewhere how sorry you are for them that they don't have as great of a pizza shop nearby.

Would like to mention also, that if you're picking up a pizza for dinner you really should consider a salad with it. It really tops off a good thing when you've got a good thing going.

I have a rule, and I know a lot of other people do too, that you shouldn't put pictures of your food on your menu or more commonly that you don't want to eat at places that have pictures. But it is ok to put pictures of your food on your restaurant's blog.

One more thing. If you're ever at Slicetruck and have a less than desirable experience for any reason please email us and let us know and we'll try and fix it: info@slicetruck.com.  You can also email us to tell us you just lost your mind over how much you enjoyed your pizza too.