What's the key to your pizza?

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Only if its made with beer

Cold Dunkel not that P!$$ warm english $h!t

[SlowwHand]

Beer in the sauce. We have an idea trending, now.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by BlackCat
Using wiki as an argument - well we seems to become desperate, don't we ?

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[BlackCat]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Lactose intolerant. We need potato pizza!

Potato pizza isn't that something like rice with potatoes

Well, I'm not lactose intolerant - I drink lots of milk. It's only when it's turned into that abomity called cheese that I start to vomit and feel sick - hell, even the stench from a cheese shop can make me take another route.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


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Don't mind wiki at all - it's a fine source for finding leads to wisdom - though using it as a fountain of wisdom is, well, not wise

[Adagio]

The Toppings - This can make or break a pizza, so it's obviously most important

The Cheese - This can easily break a pizza. Too much cheese and the pizza is uneatable... unfortunately all pizza's in Germany puts extremely much cheese on the pizza, so I have started making my own pizzas instead of ordering pizza

[SpencerH]

What seperates real pizza from the chains is the dough. Good toppings and cheese can cover when the dough is mediocre though.

[onodera]

The toppings determine whether I will touch any particular slice at all or not.
Acceptable toppings for me include:
meat and meat products
seafood
tomoatoes
mushrooms
some fish

Add anything else, like pineapples, onions, bell peppers or olives, and I will not touch it. Well, I might touch onions.

I can eat a pizza with thick crust or mediocre cheese if it has appropriate toppings, but not a pizza with pineapples and dried fish even if it has delicious thin crust and irresistably fragrant cheese.

[SpencerH]

The last really good pizza I has was smoked salmon and caviar with creme fraiche and herbs. The pizza was cold of course.

[Donegeal]

Re: What's the key to your pizza?

You're poll question..

Originally posted by Jonny
The most important part of the pizza is...

and the question in your OP..

Originally posted by Jonny
You're getting ready to dig into a piping hot pizza fresh from the oven, but what part of it are you looking forward to the most? What's that key part of the pizza that can either make or break your pizza experience?

Are different and result in two different answers.

To me, the most important part of the pizza is the crust. The crust is what everything is built on. However, a bad crust and be negated by a good sauce.

The part of a pizza that I look forward to the most, is the cheese.

[Xorbon]

Originally posted by Lancer
There are places in the country that are pizza abomination of desolation areas. I know, I live in one. Where are you at?

Where I live isn't a "pizza abomination of desolation area", but it isn't an area of spectacular pizza cuisine either.

Mostly what we have are chains: some good, some meh. The independent pizza places I've gone to around here are sub-par.

[Lancer]

Ontario says your avatar deal. Well you don't know any better. You DO live in a pizza wasteland Xorbon. Sorry to break it to you. Listen well now, during your life I charge you to go forth into the world to that place on the map on the east coast of the country just south of yours known as 'New York'. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany, you should be careful. There you will find, among the back streets and alley ways, amid the pimps, hookers and has beens, the truly greatest pizzas ever brought into this world. Welcome to Pizza heaven.


Do not become sidetracked by that other place, that dark place which offers some sort of goo in a flour bucket, a pizza pot pie of sorts, chicago. They have lived their illusions so long it seems natural to them. Besides that, they are all *******s. Go there not.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I don't see the toppings being the key, because with a good pizza I'm perfectly fine eating it plain (just sauce and cheese).

[Impaler[WrG]]

SAUCE FTW!!

It definatly the sauce which separates great pizza from good, average and sub-par pizza. Of the dominant chains I'd rank them as follows,

Papa Johns - good,
Pizza Hut - average,
Dominoes - sub-par

And 70% of that is the sauce, Dominoes uses undiluted tomato paste, Pizza Hut's uses a few spices and Papa Johns a few more. Their are also some improvements in crust and cheese quality as you go up the ladder. toppings are applied more generously but are still fundamentally the same in any chain. The sauce is the key and a truly great pizzeria will always be one which has the best sauce, the other three factors 'max out' much earlier at the 'good' pizza level leaving the sauce the deciding factor in the top tier pizzas separating good from great.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by onodera
....
seafood
....
some fish

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!