Plain cheesecake is the only good cheesecake

ITT: people who haven't had good cheesecake

I hate this opinion but you put it in the right community so I will upvote it like a decent human.

Counter-argument: Cherry topping.

Also: What kind of "plain" cheesecake? Cuz there's still variety even there. I would assume New York because it's the most common (in the US anyway).

I can go further with my unpopular opinion on cheesecake. There is no good cheesecake.

Counterpoint: hint of lemon

While I agree it is the best cheesecake I can't agree it's the only good one. lol

I feel the same way about a good donut. Also bacon is best as just bacon and never improved by wrapping it around things and under or over cooking it. And the perfect cookie is a simple, perfectly baked, chocolate chip cookie. With so many foods, simple and perfectly prepared will always beat overly complex.

So does that include toppings? I can understand cheesecake with strawberries in it not being your thing, but does that include plain cheesecake with a strawberry glaze on top? Does any sort of fruit, powdered sugar/cinnamon, or cookie ruin it?

I'm from The South so my favorite cheesecake was one that had a key lime pie on top of it, does that count?

Very light raspberry drizzle does elevate a good cheesecake. I want just the slightest sweet/tart garnish. Maybe just a whisper of a spearmint chiffonade, but that's almost decadent. Plain cheesecake is great alone though.

I can't agree with it being the only good one but it's definitely my preferred way.

That is the dilemma:

Why would you flavor cheesecake with something that doesn’t taste as good as cheesecake?

that turtle cheesecake i had a few days ago was smackin tho

That's cool, more fruit cheesecake for me.

I don't know man I make a damn good triple chocolate cheesecake, peanut butter cheesecake, and apple pie cheesecake.

I agree with you.

I had had all kinds of cheesecake for a long time in my life, all kinds of different flavors.

Then at one point I had /good/ cheesecake.

And immediately realized everything up to that point was garbage. Did some research and the old stuff I had had before was not even really cheesecake, basically just a fast food level cheesecake analog.

Real cheesecake is quite good.

I disagree, but what this community is about. I got to admit, making a good fruit cheesecake is more difficult than making a good plain cheesecake, so I agree that often the plain one is better than the fruity one. Not always.

Is this only a cheesecake thing or do you also dislike all cheese+fruit combinations? Have you tried Mascarpone gelato?

Baked cheesecake is worse than cold-set cheesecake made by my mum

I'll die on this hill with you.

Get a plain cheesecake and drench that shit in delicious berries and cream! Whats the problem?

I’m with you. Keep the strawberries and syrup away from my precious.

Maybe. But raspberry cheesecake ice cream is top tier.

Question, do you think strawberries are good on cheap cheesecake? Or does any topping make it worse?

Because some cheesecake is so good that distracting from the flavor at all is a sin. But other cheesecake is fine to have the flavor covered by yummy fruit.

But since you don't like honey your tounge probably works different than mine.

If you’re not too set in your ways, try it with some honey. Real honey, not honey flavored syrup.

I agree

I'll address your opinion once you define your terms. Specifically:

• define "good"

The rest are pure evil

I would agree with you, but I had bananas foster cheesecake, and that was amazing.

But besides that, yes, plain cheesecake all the way. Preferably creole style.

As long as the cheese is roquefort...

I agree with you because I get overwhelmed at too many options and extravagant opulence. I'm sure all kinds of extravagant cheesecake varieties are exciting but it's overwhelming to me And I'm fine with the plain kind, actually I don't want it at all because if you want to be skinny one day and fat the next day, cheesecake is a great way to achieve that. But I don't want to achieve that.

It's because they always put some berry sauce over it like everyone likes that stuff. I don't. So I also prefer plain cheesecake.

Being vegan sucks right now.

Cheesecake is so good.

I’ll go you one better. There is no such thing as good cheesecake. It all sucks.