I might be an outlier here, but I absolutely think there is such a thing as too much cheese. My partner and I have regular disagreements about how much should be put on a pizza when we’re making one at home.
Adding too much cheese can keep the the middle of the pizza from cooking properly, just like too much sauce or too many large chunks of vegetables with high water content. It takes a LOT of cheese to reach that point, but it is very possible when combined with the large chunks of vegetables.
It could be the cheese basically sealing in moisture from the sauce. Usually the cheese itself isn’t too wet, just oily, but if it completely covers a wet sauce and prevents that moisture from escaping, I think that would do it.
What really gets me is when someone crosses the line from “enough to hold it together” all the way through “cohesive item you can take bites from” then dives headlong into “everything sloughs off as the cheese stays connected and drags every other topping with it”, then acts like nothing is wrong and it’s a good thing.
I might be an outlier here, but I absolutely think there is such a thing as too much cheese. My partner and I have regular disagreements about how much should be put on a pizza when we’re making one at home.
Adding too much cheese can keep the the middle of the pizza from cooking properly, just like too much sauce or too many large chunks of vegetables with high water content. It takes a LOT of cheese to reach that point, but it is very possible when combined with the large chunks of vegetables.
It could be the cheese basically sealing in moisture from the sauce. Usually the cheese itself isn’t too wet, just oily, but if it completely covers a wet sauce and prevents that moisture from escaping, I think that would do it.
That could be a factor as well. Keeping the moisture in would keep the crust from drying on top of the increase thermal mass of the cheese itself.
I don’t mind cheese, but I have never understood the obsession with piles of cheese.
Cheese pizza has never made sense to me. Margarita is already plenty of cheese to topping ratio.
Just enough cheese to hold it together. That’s it, that’s the right amount of cheese (my opinion, of course)
I recently came across the question whether cheese or sauce is more fundamental to pizza.
The sauce. It’s 100% the sauce.
Sounds like we’re in complete agreement.
What really gets me is when someone crosses the line from “enough to hold it together” all the way through “cohesive item you can take bites from” then dives headlong into “everything sloughs off as the cheese stays connected and drags every other topping with it”, then acts like nothing is wrong and it’s a good thing.
How dare you haha
There is such a thing, but it’s never wrong to put double the amount in the recipe.