Why would anyone like cheese pizza?

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Moonbeam

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I like a grilled cheese sandwich with butter outside and Velveeta inside, just butter and processed food stuff. The fact it isn't even real cheese doesn't mean fuck to me. I let my tongue tell me what I like, not social fad and theory. And again, fuck all you Kings of What Tastes Best who think you know what others should find tastes best just because it does to you. Grow up and try everything. I even tried a Hawaiian pizza when I didn't have to pay for it. I even drank a beer yesterday made in China and it was still cold.
 

Born2bwire

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Food isn't a personal choice that appeals to different people. There is an absolute truth about all of it. Whatever you like is real food and what you don't like is garbage. This is just how fucked up the mentality here is.

You really must hate yourself for coming here.

I started a family tradition of making homemade pizza every Sunday night for dinner. I make the dough, sauce, and cheese from scratch. I am getting ready to start the process of building a brick oven in my back yard.

I hate to break it to you but a cheese pizza can be absolutely delicious. The issue I see is that most people do two things wrong when making pizza. They put way too much sauce on the pizza, and they use way too many toppings. Even if you are just doing cheese, people typically WAY overdo the cheese. It matters because you do the cheese right, it melts and mixes perfectly with the sauce. It is just delicious.

I usually make pizza at home that are half cheese(for my son) and half with toppings. Half the time I end up eating his cheese slices. Along with adding too much cheese, people overload with toppings which just detract from a good dough, sauce, and cheese. You don't need to cover a pizza with pepperoni otherwise you might as well be eating pepperoni without the other stuff. Toppings can overpower everything else. Yes, if your dough, sauce, and cheese suck, then yes toppings are the only way to make it edible.

I would also say that I am not a Chicago style guy but a NY style guy.

EDIT: This is how a cheese slice should look(although a little too much cheese IMO): http://motiongroove.com/wp-content/gallery/gallery/aug-13-09-ny-cheese-pizza.jpg

The cheese has absorbed some of the sauce and that is why the cheese has the color it does.


This is a nasty cheese pizza that can only be saved by toppings: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UiK-1p_kl.../ue3jzoCXW-4/s1600/PapaJohns_cheese-pizza.jpg

Sounds fantastic, where are you getting your recipes from? I've probably got a good recipe for the dough but I've never tried it out because I would abhor making it at home using store bought sauce and cheese.
 
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Farmer

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You guys don't like extra cheese? Extra cheese light sauce is great if the crust is good.
 

Puppies04

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I've had a six cheese pizza before and it was real good.

Do you have 6 types of cheeses in the USA? I thought you just had the fake stuff in cans and the fake stuff in little plastic packets to put on your burger.
 

WelshBloke

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I understand that banana peppers are technically fruit, but I wouldn't really think of them as fruity. Certainly no more than tomato, which is obviously on most pizzas.


Ya, been through this. I thought you meant sausage and banana pizza or wax pepper pizza>*.

As an excuse I have a temperature of 39.6C and feel a bit muddled at the moment. :(
 

Imp

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I love it. The meat usually separates from the cheese. With the cheese alone, it's one uniform and beautiful thing.
 

God Mode

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I love it. The meat usually separates from the cheese. With the cheese alone, it's one uniform and beautiful thing.

It's proper to have at least some of the toppings bonded into the cheese and base. Loose toppings that looks like it was thrown on after the pizza was finished cooking suck.
 

GoodRevrnd

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Ya, been through this. I thought you meant sausage and banana pizza or wax pepper pizza>*.

As an excuse I have a temperature of 39.6C and feel a bit muddled at the moment. :(

Banana peppers are better but usually harder to find than wax peppers, even though they're almost the same.
 

destrekor

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No fans of NY-style pizza here, I guess.

love love love it

Not many options here in Ohio though, at least, not in NW Ohio.

Columbus/Cinci/Dayton has Flying Pizza, which is a NY-style pizza... omg delicious (don't DARE put anything that's not cheese on my slices!). And a few places in Toledo, I have to have cheese only - though I can do ham on them too, but in general I like really good pizza that is rewarding even with nothing but cheese as a topping.
 

uberman

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I don't know why exactly. However, if I think about it a bit, there was this sketch that they did on Monty Python.

It was about the secret life of men, ashamed they were of course, who liked to dress-up and pretend that they were mice. Although they came across as quite emabarassed by this habit, they told about this private activity to those watching the show.

I'll bet that has something to do with the affinity for cheese.
 

lothar

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Jan 5, 2000
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"Cheese" pizza is irrational.
There is already cheese on all pizza. Why not get a different topping?

If you don't like any of the toppings or are a vegetarian, then a "cheese" pizza makes sense.
 

alkemyst

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Feb 13, 2001
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chances are people that battle pizza are doing so because they can't get laid even married to someone.
 

sandorski

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Oct 10, 1999
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People, if they can be called that, who don't like Pineapple on Pizza have Poopy Pants! :mad: