Pizza cutters are greatly underappreciated kitchen tools because they don't appear to be all that useful. After all, couldn't you just use a knife to cut through the pizza? With a knife, you run the risk of dragging half the toppings along with each cut, not to mention that you might have to saw through the tougher crust, further disturbing the pie as you struggle with it. The beauty of a good pizza cutter is that it is incredibly quick and efficient. It should cut through thin and deep-dish pizzas with ease, producing perfectly clean slices. To see which brands are the best of the best, let's take a look at a testing of pizza cutters.
The best cutters were deemed to be the OXO Good Grips 4-inch Pizza Wheel for Non-Stick Pans, the KitchenAid Large Pizza Cutter and the Cuisipro Pizza Wheel. All have large wheels that will not get gummed up by extra cheese even in the deepest pizzas and have handles that are comfortable and safe. The cutters are also good for dividing up bread dough (I frequently use my OXO when baking rolls or breadsticks), cutting up sheets of pasta and sectioning those giant chocolate chip cookies that kids sometimes get instead of birthday cakes.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-20-2006 @ 11:34AM
Noah said...
The best pizza cutters are the large, cheap ones from restaurant supply stores that cost about $3 and have a screw you can remove to clean UNDER that little bar where stuff always gets stuck.
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10-20-2006 @ 11:43AM
Josh said...
I love my Zyliss Pizza Wheel! :-)
http://www.zylissusa.com/ProductDetailY.asp?PDID=29&CategoryID=3
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10-20-2006 @ 1:33PM
james b said...
The best pizza cutter is a D shaped stainless blade with a grab bar welded to the top. Wheeled cutters will splash sizzling pepperoni grease on your hands if you cut too fast. I use a wheeled cutter at home, but the big D is the best.
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10-20-2006 @ 1:53PM
Jim said...
I hate *all* pizza cutters. It seems like any one I buy - from the $1.99 ones at the grocery store to the fancy $19.99 ones at kitchen stores - all dull to uselessness after three or four uses. And sharpening those things is a bitch!
I prefer using one of those $5.99 cleavers you can buy at just about any Asian market in Chinatown. The sheer heft of the blade makes cutting any size crust a breeze, and the length means that you don't have to "drag" the blade.
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10-20-2006 @ 2:30PM
zack said...
Another vote for Zyliss' Wheel! Awesome. AB recommended.
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10-20-2006 @ 3:13PM
Karen said...
Another vote for the Zyliss Pizza Wheel. We've got two and use them for everything - pizza, bread dough, all kinds of stuff.
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10-20-2006 @ 3:23PM
Word Diggity said...
I use my chef's knife (10") the same way as the device james b mentions above. Obviously this isn't perfect (what if I have a 12" pie?) but it works just fine most of the time. I haven't touched my pizza wheel in years.
That Zyliss cutter looks pretty nice though...and for $10? I might just have to grab one and give it a go.
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10-20-2006 @ 3:38PM
tr said...
am i the only one here who uses scissors?
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10-20-2006 @ 4:23PM
MJ said...
I agree with jim, I have bought several and I might has well just bite it off!! TR is correct,use scissors or your teeth! By the time you rey to cut it with a pizza cutter evertything has been pulled offf....hate that!!!That why I eat out for pizza!
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10-21-2006 @ 9:26AM
Brian said...
What, this is crazy! I did not know you could buy those things! I have seen them at the pizza restaurants, I guess I thought it was one of those things that a restaurant only has, like for example those little glass things where it has the little powder cheese, you know what I am talking about, also they have the little hot red pepper things in them. What I am saying is I do not have a thing like that at home, I could really use one of those things (I mean the pizza cutting thing, I guess I really do not need a little "container" of powder cheese, what is the point?).
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