It was kind of the default in my family growing up. And the pizza there was new York style, thin crust.
Since then I’ve gotten more in the habit of toppings and only occasionally get a simple cheese. A really well made cheese pizza is thing of beauty, there is a certain quality you get from it that is lost when you as toppings. The thing is, though, it has to be just right, and lots of places that make a good pizza with toppings don’t know how to make a really good cheese pizza, so to be worth ordering one, it has to be from the right place, made on a good night. IMO its got to be a thin ny style crust with a really good sauce.
Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Bunch of pedophiles talking about CSAMThe things we mods are subjected to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng_-HgRfGBY
Pizzagate? LOL
I assume they assumed that everyone here is a pedo using Cheese Pizza as code for Child Porn.
My question is, what does that say about the reporter?
Sometimes (nearly always), a cheese pizza is just a cheese pizza.
Speaking on behalf of a friend, as I prefer toppings: they discovered that a variety of things give them body problems, and it’s easier to just do a plain cheese pie than to try to guess if peppers are going to upset their body today.
A cheese or margarita pizza is a great litmus test for a pizzeria. Anyone can pile toppings on sauced bread, but it takes skill, a well honed recipe and practice to make a simple pie sing.
The best pizza I ever had was a margherita at a random, small neighborhood shop in Rome.
The quality of the ingredients matter so much for a simple recipe at that point as well. Damn I want a margherita now.
It’s why I always go for vanilla the first time at an ice cream place.
Simplicity is the key to the best foods out there
You said it better than I was going to. I love toppings, but when I ate cheese there was something always great about a plain cheese pizza from a good pizza place.
Same here.
Trying out a new place? Always one margarita, maybe something else too.
I’ve always liked cheese pizza. It’s just that I was never able to order it before. My family would always get meat lovers or veggie pizza and I always had to pick everything off. Now that I’m all growed up I can order my own cheese pizza! I wish that was worth the tradeoff of being an adult but eh you’ve got to take what small victories life gives you.
In my limited experience, cheese pizza is for families with picky children.
It’s also great for parties. It’s inoffensive, anyone who’s good for pizza can default to it. It’s often the only meatless option ordered (though I prefer something with as many veggies as I can get)
Exactly this, I’d prefer getting some opinionated toppings on the occasions I get pizza. But unless I’m somewhere selling by the slice that just guarantees my kids won’t touch it.
“That looks disgusting!”
“How do you know if you haven’t tried it?”
“Just trust me, I don’t like it!”
I can’t afford toppings
You gotta wonder at the headspace of someone downvoting such a comment.
Hand tossed, Light cheese. As a tomato sauce fanatic, nothing beats that thin cheese barrier. This only works with places that have outstanding gravy, though. And I typically pile the toppings on wood fired.
Often, too, I find too much cheese is rubbery and unenjoyable.
Appreciation of cheese pizza comes with age.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s only a sometimes thing, I still love my monstrosity kitchen sink pizzas, but there’s something nice about the simplicity of a good cheese pizza. Seriously order one from your favorite pizza place and get a nice sour ale (preferably not a fruity one, one of the Flanders red or oud bruin styles if you can). No four+ cheese, that’s cheating! The greasy cheese cuts the sourness of the ale while the sourness helps cut the greasiness of the pizza, it balances amazingly well.
Uncluttered pizza, uncluttered mind.
EDIT: Depending on your pizza place, you may want to go 2x or 3x cheese, that’s also acceptable.
I’m not knocking it til I try it but something about the combination of sour and cheese makes me wary
Edit: ya nevermind, I like pineapple on pizza and that does have a tartness to it too
I found myself wondering just how common this could be, then realized my favorite pizza is a cheese pizza, if not the version you’d think of first.
A super-thin spread of basil pesto topped with a smattering of feta and finished off with red pepper flakes is divine. On a thin crust it’s my absolute favorite. Simple, and the flavors shine.
As opposed to what? Plain bread with some tomato sauce and no cheese?
Well ya obviously, there’s only two pizzas in the world. Cheese or tomato bread. Everyone knows that.
Cheesitza and Tomatizza 🤭
Typically the only time i order cheese pizza is if i am ordering for a large group, or if there are kids under 15 or so around.
It’s just easiest. I don’t like pepperoni, or bacon, or sausage. Don’t like olives or banana peppers or jalapeños. Mushrooms are disgusting. Cheese is just easiest to order from most pizza places.
There are things I like on pizza. If we go to a place like MOD, I’ll get chicken, spinach, roasted garlic, corn, broccoli, red onion, balsamic glaze, ricotta… my pizzas get pretty heavy there.
But at most pizza places, especially with other people, it’s just easy to get cheese.
What is cheese pizza? As opposed to… pizza with no cheese? Don’t pizzas usually have cheese?
The antithesis of a cheese pizza is a pizza with toppings. It’s an idiom, so I wouldn’t recommend thinking too hard on it.
Ah ok, you mean a margherita pizza? I just didn’t know what the term referred to. I’ve not heard it called that before.
I think a plain cheese pizza is slightly different than a margherita pizza. It won’t typically have the basil leaves, and the cheese is more uniform.
I’m thinking of like dollar slice pizza. Like these https://secretnyc.co/seamless-dollar-cheese-slice/
But I’m not a pizza-ologist.
I thought of this question when a youtube vid about NY dollar slice (or $1.50 now) popped up and I was thinking I never ordered cheese pizza as a kid, bare minimum was pepperoni. In my later teens it was mushroom, then when I started making pizzas at home, I started appreciating a plain cheese pizza a lot more.
Out of curiousity, where are you from?
