The Best Pizza Cutter for Your Perfect Slice

If you’ve been reading our other pizza articles and you’ve spent the time to find the right flour, pick the best cheese and sauce, and even build your own DIY pizza oven, then the last thing you want to do is hack your beautiful freshly cooked pie apart with a kitchen knife.

Getting a perfectly triangular slice is why the pizza wheel was invented, and no pizza chef should be without one. So you don’t have to spend good pizza cooking time searching for one; we’ve done the legwork for you.

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Best pizza cutters available to buy

While it might seem like a pizza wheel is a relatively simple tool, and one is much like the other, there are differences in design and function that mean one might work better for you than another.

To give you the widest choice, we’ve reviewed some of the best pizza cutters on the market.

Best Overall – Pizza Cutter by Kitchenstar

Rather than the more common wheel design, the Pizza Cutter by Kitchenstar is what the Italians would refer to as a mezzaluna (an Italian word meaning half moon) or a rocking knife.

With a length of 13.75 inches, the curved surface of a rocking knife cutter is laid across the pizza and rocked from side to side to divide your pie. The benefit of using a rocking cutter is that there’s no chance of it snow-plowing up your toppings as you cut.

The most significant advantage of picking a mezzaluna over the traditional wheel cutter is that it can be used for other everyday kitchen tasks. The knife’s shape means it can be used to cut through various foods, from slicing brownies to dicing herbs, and can also be used to move your pizza around on its pizza peel.

The cutter itself is made entirely of food-grade stainless steel and comes with a protective cover. The all-steel construction gives this cutter a lot of durability and Kitchenstar offer a 100% money-back guarantee if you’re not satisfied. 

What we like:

What we don’t like:

• Storage issues – This isn’t a compact cutter and is larger than most kitchen knives, which could be a problem if you’re short on storage space.

Kitchy Pizza Cutter Wheel

If you’re not blessed with a vast kitchen and find that storage space is at a premium, then the Kitchy pizza cutter wheel is a compact and easy to store option.

Rather than the traditional handle, the Kitchy fits in the palm of your hand, giving your extra grip and cutting power. The cutting blade itself has a retractable plastic blade guard, so it won’t put your fingers at risk when it’s stored in a drawer.

Pizza cutting is a messy business, but thankfully the Kitchy can be fully disassembled for cleaning, and all the parts are dishwasher safe. Just be careful of that razor-sharp blade. 

The icing on the cake is Kitchy are so sure you’ll like their pizza wheel that they offer a lifetime, 100% money-back guarantee, so if you don’t like their product, you can send it back, and they’ll refund you, no questions asked.

What we like:

What we don’t like:

• Plastic hinge – The hinge used to open the Kitchy for cleaning is thin plastic, which will shorten the product’s life.

KitchenAid Gourmet Pizza Wheel

KitchenAid is a brand that people have come to expect quality from, and their Gourmet Pizza Wheel lives up to that expectation.

Designwise, nothing is breaking the mold here. This is a basic wheel-shaped pizza cutter, just like mama used to use. Where the Gourmet Pizza Wheel really shines is in the quality of its construction.

Most pizza wheels are lightweight, plasticky, and feel cheap. The Gourmet Pizza Wheel is made of a combination of high-quality, premium 430 stainless steel and ABS polymer that gives it a weighty and quality feel. 

The extra weight also makes it easier to get a good clean cut for your slice, and when you’re done, you can just put it in the dishwasher. 

If you’re looking for a pizza wheel that doesn’t feel like it’s about to fall apart in your hand, then the KitchenAid Gourmet Pizza Wheel is a great choice.

What we like:

What we don’t like:

• Non-removable blade – Wheel cutters can be a little fiddly to wash, and it would have been nice to have the option to remove the blade to clean it.

Fred and Friends BOSS 3000 Circular Saw Pizza Wheel

Initially, the BOSS 3000 Circular Saw Pizza Wheel from Fred and Friends looks like a novelty birthday gift for the carpenter in your life, and to an extent, that’s what it is.

However, the reason it’s made it on to this list is that it’s also a surprisingly well made and well-designed pizza cutter.

The cutter’s body is made of rigid engineering-grade plastics while the cutting wheel is laser-etched, food-safe stainless steel.

This gives it a weight that makes cutting that much easier. The circular saw design also has a large shield, which means you can safely cut pies that are straight out of the oven.

While this is a novelty item, it’s well made enough to work really well as a handheld pizza cutter, and if you love power tools, it’s going to be right up your alley.

What we like:

What we don’t like:

• Thin crust only – The smaller wheel and low circular saw style guard means that this cutter isn’t going to with a deep dish or a pizza with an inch of toppings on it.

Dreamfarm Pizza Scizza Scissors

If you’ve had bad experiences with pizza wheels and are looking for something different, or you’re just a huge Stallone fan, then you might want to try pizza scissors.

Unlike regular scissors that will just make a mess of your pie, these specific pizza scissors have a flattered bade that slides under the crust and a 12cm duck-bill blade for a nice crisp slice.

The non-stick nylon base is heat resistant up to 400°F (205°C), so you can cut right on your pizza stone when it’s fresh out of the oven. The design of the base also helps to prevent it from scratching your stone or non-stick pans.

When you’re not using them to cut pizza (presumably while wearing high-waisted jeans and leather gloves like Sly himself), they also work perfectly well as standard kitchen scissors.

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What we liked:

What we don’t like:

• Very specific – Unlike a pizza wheel or a mezzaluna, you’re probably not going to get a lot of utility out of these scissors when not cutting pizza.

Culinary Edge Natural Bamboo Pizza Peel & Rocker

If you love pizza but would like a more environmentally-friendly slicing solution, then Culinary Edge have you covered with their all-natural-bamboo pizza set.

This two-piece kit comprises a 22 x 14-inch pizza peel and a 14 x 4-inch rocker-style pizza cutter. Both pieces are made of sustainably-harvested bamboo coated with food-safe lacquer. 

Both board and cutter are reasonably large to accommodate a family size pizza, but their all-wooden construction keeps them light and easy to handle.

The only issue with using bamboo is that it isn’t dishwasher safe and will need to be hand-washed and, ideally, dried immediately. 

What we like:

What we don’t like:

• Hand wash only – Bamboo items like this set are generally made from laminated layers of wood, which means that prolonged exposure to water causes them to split, so you can’t put them in the dishwasher.

OXO Good Grips Stainless Steel 4-Inch Pizza Wheel

If you suffer from grip or hand strength issues, then standard pizza cutters can be a problem to manipulate. The OXO Good Grips is designed explicitly with wider grips made of non-slip materials specifically to increase grip strength, and they also come recommended by America’s Test Kitchen.

This pizza wheel’s short, wide handle is made from soft non-slip rubber with additional thumb and forefinger grips. There’s also a die-cast zinc thumb guard to keep your fingers away from the cutting wheel.

The rest of the cutter is made of food-grade stainless steel, which gives it a nice weight and also means it’s also dishwasher safe.

The only downside to this cutter is the relatively straight angle of the handle, which means it requires an uncomfortable hand angle to cut a thicker deep-dish pie.

What we like:

What we don’t like:

• The angle – This OXO cutter is straighter than most wheel cutters, which means you have to crane your wrist quite a lot when cutting a thicker pie.

KoBzA Mezzaluna Pizza Cutter 

If you’re looking for a kitchen tool that has a little more utility than a wheel cutter, but can still cut a good slice, then KoBzA’s Mezzaluna Pizza Cutter is a great choice.

As we mentioned earlier, mezzaluna knives are a traditional Italian answer to pizza cutting, but also used to chop veggies, mince meat, and dice up herbs.

This particular mezzaluna is made from stainless steel, making it both durable and dishwasher safe, and comes with a large, easy to grip, rubber handle. It also comes with a rubber sheath for the blade to protect both your fingers and the edge.

Suppose you’d rather not have a kitchen tool dedicated to only slicing pizza and want something that you’ll be able to use on a far more regular basis. In that case, a mezzaluna will provide you with that level of utility. 

What we like:

What we don’t like:

• The size – While it does have a deep blade that isn’t afraid of a Chicago pizza, the blade’s smaller width does mean you’ll have to take a few cuts at a larger pizza.

Wrapping it up

We’ve all tried cutting a pizza with a chef’s knife in desperation, only to see it disintegrate your pie into a mush of dough and toppings. 

Getting the right pizza cutter will spare you from ever having to feel that pain again, and, with all the different types of cutter we’ve reviewed above, we’re sure you’ll find one you love.

If you’ve got a pizza cutter you love and want to tell us about it, or if you’ve got the secret to getting a crisp cut on even the deepest of pies, we’d love to hear about it in the comments section below.