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PIZZA! Thick crust or thin crust?

Is your favorite pizza a thick,doughy crust or a thin crispy crust?

41 Comments:

No contest - thin only.

well done thin crust.

Thin.

As thin as possible, actually.

Both! Depends what I'm in the mood for... Chicago-style deep-dish and ultra-thin crispy are truly different beasts. Honestly, they probably shouldn't both be called pizza, but it is what it is.

Thin & crispy for me, thick for my OH.

either but cold and leftover for breakfast : )

Both but thick needs to be chicago style

@lemons: LOL.

I want thin. I'm talkin cracker thin. Nothing better than a crispy, super thin pizza.

Thin, definately, with a hand tossed semolina crust.

@Mares- please tell me about your semolina crust recipe!

Thin is the winner for me.

Wahfer theen. Like the mint in Monty Python.

thin if I have to pick, either if I don't :)

very thin and crisp hands up.

I only like thick if it is done well and that is not too often. Thin mostly and not thin that is crap that tastes like cardboard. Has to be be light and airy and have chew factor.

Wafer thin and burnt to a crisp, baby!

Well, when in Rome...
But, then there's Chicago...
And NY...

THIN! Extra crispy.

I like the medium kind, the big slices you can fold in half. In my hometown of Milwaukee people seem to love square-cut pizza with crust that tastes like burnt saltless matzohs, but I like a big triangle that has just a hint of flop to it.

Thin, if I have a choice.

If calories didn't matter, I would choose a nice doughy crust, but in the interest of good health and not becoming a blimp, I usually go for thin.

Thin but not crunchy. I don't like pizza on a cracker.

Both, depending on what I'm in the mood for. I usually prefer thin for more "gourmet, fine resturant-style" pizza - think artichoke hearts, sun-dried tomatoes, feta....or brie, pears, prociutto....something like that. But when it comes to just wanting good, old-fashioned, "comfort style" pizza, nothing but thick, chewy, doughy crust with sausage, extra cheese, and more unhealthy toppings will do.

thin...in a wood-fired brick oven...heaven.

Thin! Un-thin does not seem like pizza to me!

thin for me as well, altho i have occasionally been treated to some decent thicker crusts. seems like there's quite a consensus on here tho, which i didn't expect.

Thick, doughy crust. Please. Thin crusts never have enough flavor for me. Maybe I'm eating the wrong thin crusts?

Chewy/crispy on the thin side usually. Although there was this place in Plattsburgh, NY called Monopole's that made a terrific sicilian--not too thick, and not too dense and they grated garlic right into the cheese...yum!

Hey, forgot to mention something my sister loves as do many a drunken college student--deep fried pizza rolls. No, not those Totino things. A pizzeria back home in Canton, NY takes dough shaped into a football and fills it with cheese and sauce with or without pepperoni. Fold over (think calzone, no ricotta, sauce on the inside), seal and throw in the deep fat fryer until golden brown. I, myself, don't care for them, but I'm generally not a fried food kind of gal.
Here's a picture of a guy enjoying one:
http://www.bowenn.net/photos/NY34.JPG
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If you have any New Year's Resolutions, eat this before January 1st!

@dhorst- What's the name of the place in Canton? I spend some time up in Ogdensburg in the summer, maybe I'll check it out.

@dmcavanagh, Sergi's in both Canton and Potsdam. On Main Street in Canton and on Market Street in Potsdam. What are you doing up in the 'burg? When I was growing up in Canton, we used to go through Ogdensburg to go to Ottawa for concerts and Brockville to go drinking. My grandmother used to live in Renselaer Falls and always went to Ogdensburg on those "big shopping days" once a month. Anyway, check out Sergi's for the deep fried pizza rolls. My sister loves them and has to have one or two whenever she visits home. I once heard a friend say, "State fair fried dough meets pizza--a match made by a fried food, pizza lovin' cupid." A pretty accurate description in my opinion.

@dhorst-Have family in the 'burg, also a camp on the river between Oburg and Morristown. Don's Fish and Chips in Brockville is my summer mecca.Keep in touch.

My favorite is definitely thick crust pizza!! I'd rather eat the crust than the pizza itself in most cases.

@dmcavanagh--I'll have to check Don's out the next time I'm up. We also used to go to Brockville for Chinese food, although we usually went to Cornwall, Ontario for Chinese at the Jade Garden. Boy, you know you're living in the sticks when you have to go to another country for decent Chinese food.

dmcavanagh, don't have a recipe for it, unfortunately my attempts at making pizza dough have always been horrible. My favorite pizza parlor makes the best pizza, with a thin, hand tossed semolina crust, and baked in a brick oven. Just crispy enough, with a lovely chewy crust and a slightly nutty flavor.

thick, thick, thick!

and chewy.

I don't understand people who don't like crust..I usually end up eating theirs. I don't care if it's gross, they're gross for not eating the crust haha

oh, thin crust, all the way.

nice thick sicilian style crust!

As a rule of thumb I will say think because my favorite pizza is that style, and it is hard to come across a good flavored thick crust. have yet to find that ethereal thick crust flavor.

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