Thick Crust vs Thin Crust

[bsb13]

Which type of pizza do you prefer? I think I like thick crust a lot better, but I will assume most people will go with thin crust.

[ezekiel55]

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I like thinner crust pizza.

Being from Chicago, we get a rep for being a deep dish city. Thats unfortunate, because we have some of the greatest thin crust pizza in the world.

[Stumbleweed]

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Thin by a mile. Nothing better than a really high-gluten cracker-thin crust with a little of that 500-degree pizza oven char on it, simply dressed with olive oil, goat cheese, basil, artichoke hearts, and tomatoes. My god, what a perfect food. Put some proscuitto on it and my head flies off my shoulders.

[aukevin]

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Unless the crust has cheese in it, I stop when I get to it. No need in filling up on bready crust, just give me more pizza.

[bsb13]

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Dang it I accidentally voted for thin crust. I meant to vote for thick.

[Stumbleweed]

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And yeah, thin crust is healthier. Any real Italian pizza place would look at you funny if you ordered a thick crust pizza.

This is the local pizza place (nationally-known actually) from my hometown and their gimmick is "Mountain Pies", namely a giant roll of crust that you normally eat at the end of the meal dipped in honey:

[stewaat]

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Unless the crust has cheese in it, I stop when I get to it. No need in filling up on bready crust, just give me more pizza.

This. Exactly.

[Stumbleweed]

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A good thin crust only has about an inch of 'crust', just enough to keep your hands from getting messy... another reason that thin crust wins.

[rspencer86]

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Thin crust? Might as well put some tomato sauce on a Wheat Thin.

Thick crust for me.

[Whitesox]

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Go thick crust!

[ezekiel55]

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I love Neapolitan pizza...Real deal Neopolitan pizza is made in a wood burning ove that can get hotter than 800 degrees. The pizza is basically cooked in 8 minutes.

Here's a good example.

[DC]

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Ok what about a regular pan pizza? Why isn't that an option?

[Stumbleweed]

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I love Neapolitan pizza...Real deal Neopolitan pizza is made in a wood burning ove that can get hotter than 800 degrees. The pizza is basically cooked in 8 minutes.

Here's a good example.

Yessir, that's the real stuff. That crust is thin aside from the bubbles that form... so good. That char is the business... I can get close to that with a pizza stone in a 500 degree oven, but nothing works like those bad-*** wood ovens with stone cooking surfaces.

DC, pan pizza is definitely thick crust, as is the "traditional" or "hand-tossed" crust at major pizza places. Anything that's not expressly "thin" is a thick crust in the pizza world.

[bsb13]

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Ok what about a regular pan pizza? Why isn't that an option?

My bad

[Chaos81]

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It depends on how I feel that day.