"pizza cutter" news and stories

I whip up a homemade pizza pretty much all the time. With so much practice, I've gotten pretty decent at rolling my pizza slicer through thick piles of toppings and coming out with a nicely cut piece every time. However, if making pizzas and then trying to cut them is a big thorn in your side, you might want to check out the new pizza scissors, also called The Pizza Pro, over at Skymall. Just open the scissors up, slide it under the pizza pie, and cut. Pretty simple, eh? I just wonder how it deals with thicker toppings.

We got this tip from OhGizmo! and, if you happen to have a similar problem with ruining pans when you try to cut through a pizza without shnazzy scissors, just slip the pizza onto a surface you can cut on and roll or slice away!.

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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Sometimes you just want to eat your pizza with a knife and fork, especially jumbo-slices or those weighed down by extra toppings, which can be impractical to eat out of hand. But isn't using a fork AND a knife a hassle? Why not combine the two implements into one pizza fork?

Officially, the product is called a Nyfork ($12) and it can be used to cut anything you might normally use a knife for, including veggies and meat, leaving your other hand free. The package notes that the fork was "kept secret from the American public for years" (no doubt as some sort of two-handed cutlery conspiracy), but also has a warning that the cutter wheel is very sharp, and caution should be used when eating from the fork.

I'll give it points for aesthetics, but I'll stick to using a regular knife and fork for my pizza - or anything, for that matter.

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