Pizza: How Important Is the Outer Crust?

[Doc]

35 minutes ago, Cripple Creek said:

You’re more obstinate than I am!

 

Not really.  How do you hold a pizza slice without the outer crust, a la a middle slice of a party-size pizza?

[Patrick Duffy]

I think it all depends on the brand or who makes it. Some crusts on certain pizzas aren't very good to me. There is an Italian restaurant near that has the best crust I've ever had. Also kinda like Papa Johns crust.

 

Then there are some that I just eat the pizza to the crust and throw the crust to the dog or in the trash. So to me, it depends on the restaurant, brand, and who is making it to determine how good the crust is on certain pizzas.

[BringBackFergy]

I have to agree with @Gugny on this topic. The outer crust HAS to be browned, light, crunchy but soft with a slightly sweet taste.

 

That's why I'm a big fan of stromboli, calzones, empanadas and Hot Pockets....all of which are comprised of an outer crust.

[Patrick Duffy]

1 minute ago, BringBackFergy said:

I have to agree with @Gugny on this topic. The outer crust HAS to be browned, light, crunchy but soft with a slightly sweet taste.

 

That's why I'm a big fan of stromboli, calzones, empanadas and Hot Pockets....all of which are comprised of an outer crust.

I think you are beginning to burn your bridges here.....?

[Cripple Creek]

10 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

Not really.  How do you hold a pizza slice without the outer crust, a la a middle slice of a party-size pizza?

I gnaw off the outside edge until I have something to hold onto.

[Bray Wyatt]

6 minutes ago, Patrick_Duffy said:

I think it all depends on the brand or who makes it. Some crusts on certain pizzas aren't very good to me. There is an Italian restaurant near that has the best crust I've ever had. Also kinda like Papa Johns crust.

 

Then there are some that I just eat the pizza to the crust and throw the crust to the dog or in the trash. So to me, it depends on the restaurant, brand, and who is making it to determine how good the crust is on certain pizzas.

 

Which pizza do you prefer? The one with the better crust? I believe thats the crux of the argument. 

[SDS]

I should probably clarify something here because we have some very unscrupulous topic starters that change the argument in their favor. The original statement was that the outer crust, specifically the outer crust, was the best part of the pizza. THE BEST PART. 

 

Now it was astutely pointed out that you probably can’t have a bad outer crust without having a bad bottom. But that was not the issue. The question at hand in the shoutbox was if the outer crust was the best part of the pizza. 

[Bray Wyatt]

4 minutes ago, SDS said:

I should probably clarify something here because we have some very unscrupulous topic starters that change the argument in their favor. The original statement was that the outer crust, specifically the outer crust, was the best part of the pizza. THE BEST PART. 

 

Now it was astutely pointed out that you probably can’t have a bad outer crust without having a bad bottom. But that was not the issue. The question at hand in the shoutbox was if the outer crust was the best part of the pizza. 

 

This is a great point, I dont think its possible to have a bad outer crust and a good bottom, any one ever had this?

 

If not, I think we can simplify the question to does a good crust make or break a pizza

 

Edited May 24, 2019 by Bray Wyatt

[SDS]

9 minutes ago, Bray Wyatt said:

 

This is a great point, I dont think its possible to have a bad outer crust and a good bottom, any one ever had this?

 

If not, I think we can simplify the question to does a good crust make or break a pizza

 

 

No. That wasn’t the origin of the debate. The origin was that the OP stated that the outer crust was the best part of the pizza. Anything else is a bastardization of the dispute. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

10 minutes ago, SDS said:

I should probably clarify something here because we have some very unscrupulous topic starters that change the argument in their favor. The original statement was that the outer crust, specifically the outer crust, was the best part of the pizza. THE BEST PART. 

 

Now it was astutely pointed out that you probably can’t have a bad outer crust without having a bad bottom. But that was not the issue. The question at hand in the shoutbox was if the outer crust was the best part of the pizza. 

Yep!

 

That's good old @Gugny  A swell guy and dear friend, but hell on poor Jerry!

 

 

Why I am boycotting that rigged sham of a poll. LoL

 

 

 

 

 

[Bray Wyatt]

1 minute ago, SDS said:

 

No. That wasn’t the origin of the debate. The origin was that the OP stated that the outer crust was the best part of the pizza. Anything else is a bastardization of the dispute. 

 

Fair enough

[LeviF]

15 minutes ago, SDS said:

I should probably clarify something here because we have some very unscrupulous topic starters that change the argument in their favor. The original statement was that the outer crust, specifically the outer crust, was the best part of the pizza. THE BEST PART. 

 

Now it was astutely pointed out that you probably can’t have a bad outer crust without having a bad bottom. But that was not the issue. The question at hand in the shoutbox was if the outer crust was the best part of the pizza. 

 

I bear witness.  @Gugny has understated his case in the title, to his great shame, and I demand answer!

[Cripple Creek]

15 minutes ago, SDS said:

I should probably clarify something here because we have some very unscrupulous topic starters that change the argument in their favor. The original statement was that the outer crust, specifically the outer crust, was the best part of the pizza. THE BEST PART. 

 

Now it was astutely pointed out that you probably can’t have a bad outer crust without having a bad bottom. But that was not the issue. The question at hand in the shoutbox was if the outer crust was the best part of the pizza. 

I can confirm that this was in fact the chain of events.

[ExiledInIllinois]

Just now, Cripple Creek said:

I can confirm that this was in fact the chain of events.

I third. I am here to testify. 

 

(Don't ask, I can't sleep. I should have listened to your treatise on the ill effects of Monster Energy?) 

[Mike in Horseheads]

2 minutes ago, Cripple Creek said:

I can confirm that this was in fact the chain of events.

I am witness of said event and said name calling.

[ExiledInIllinois]

4 minutes ago, LeviF91 said:

 

I bear witness.  @Gugny has understated his case in the title, to his great shame, and I demand answer!

I say we run him out on a rail!

 

 

[Cripple Creek]

1 minute ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

I am witness of said event and said name calling.

Not being one to call out the idiocy of certain @Gugny ‘s I did not name names. I see that the cat is out of the bag though. Now everyone knows what a gugny @Gugny is.

[ExiledInIllinois]

2 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

I am witness of said event and said name calling.

? The swarm is swarming. I was in ShoutBox... Here here!

1 minute ago, Cripple Creek said:

Not being one to call out the idiocy of certain @Gugny ‘s I did not name names. I see that the cat is out of the bag though. Now everyone knows what a gugny @Gugny is.

He will "reinvent" himself.  Did I not say in ShoutBox that he was going to prove a Phoenix... Then he comes here makes this absurd poll and almost fools people!

[flaz]

I too was witness to the shoutbox brouhaha. This is a total ruse to sway the opinion of the uninformed voters, much like the last presidential election.

 

BTW, the pizza I make has no outer crust. All the goodies go out to the very edge

Edited May 24, 2019 by fl az fan

[BringBackFergy]

It seems the louder the anti-outer-crusters argue and beat their chests, they are recognizing how they are in the minority in this argument.

 

Y'all (@ExiledinIllinois, @fl az fan, @SDS, @Mike in Horseheads, @Cripple Creek) need to look at the poll results.

 

Over 75% of the voters believe the outer crust is the most important or significantly important to a good pizza.

 

It's ok to admit you're wrong. Just get it over with.