What do you think is the most essential part of a pizza?

I think the crust is the most important part. Too crunchy of a crust and the whole pizza is ruined. And if the crust is too soft, the pizza feels floppy and weak,

The Cheese!!!!

The crust is important, and I think really the sauce and crust are equally important, but I voted sauce, because a bad sauce can make you puke.

Crust is important, but so is the cheese. A good crust on a pizza won't matter much if the cheese ends up tasting too salty, or too rubbery.

sausauge, bacon, pepperoni, ham, and beef best pizza ever i love making my own meat lovers whenever i worked at domino's so i chose toppings in the poll

The crust!

cheese and crust are the best

Sauce. A few years ago in my cooking class, we made a nice looking pizza. It looked great and was made well, but when we took a bite, we could immediately tell we used awful sauce. That ruined the whole thing..

Crust crust crust!

Each part is important but I'd have to go with the cheese on this one.

I don't think you can really determine this. If any one part of it is bad, the entire pizza is bad.

sauce and peperoini

The crust is what technically makes a pizza, a pizza.

pizza without cheese = bad pizza

pizza without sauce = bad pizza

pizza without crust = it's not even a pizza, it's just a pile of cheese and sauce. While not having cheese and sauce is bad, without crust, you don't even have a pizza!

So therefore, crust is the most essential of the three.

Sauce or crust. Anyone from the Northeastern US will tell you this. Crust matters more if you're from Northern NJ or NYC due to the excellent water in the doughs and as you head west sauce becomes more important. Two things everyone must know though, there is no good pizza south of Maryland or west of Chicago, there just isn't.

No offense Southeast, Southwest, and West Coast but your pizza is terrible.

I'd agree with the crust. No sense in building on something that isnt fit to eat.-Fromage-

Toppings for sure. I rarely eat a pizza without at least 3-4 toppings on it.

You can make a pizza without toppings, and you can make it without sauce (white pizzas), heck, you can even technically make it without the stereotypical crust, like pita pizzas, etc., but I've never seen a pizza without cheese.

I'd agree with the crust. No sense in building on something that isnt fit to eat.-Fromage-

Cheese is essential. Have you ever eaten a pizza without cheese?

QWERTYCommander

cheese and sauce

I will go wit Crust 1st then sauce...

The sauce is usually makes or breaks it. When a pizza is bad it's usually because of the sauce. It's kind of hard to **** up cheese or most of the typical pizza toppings, although of course it can be done.

I voted sauce but really there isn't one part of the pizza that is "essential" in my eyes. Because I can't choose just one, they're all needed!

Crust is most important, everything else I can put on a sandwich

Either the cheese or the crust.

The cheese gets my vote. I can enjoy a plain cheese pizza and unless I am hungry I usually won't finish the crust.

Base

Yea nothing better than the crust, Especially all the sauce that builds up at the base of the crust *drools*

Crust is important, but so is the cheese. A good crust on a pizza won't matter much if the cheese ends up tasting too salty, or too rubbery.

elblanquito_81

Toppings! I always need pepperoni and cajun chicken. :P

Cheese!!!!!!!!!!!