When our winning pizza wheel was discontinued, we promoted the runner-up, a classic 4-inch wheel from OXO. But we’d recently noticed more options on the market, so we decided to test them to see if any could make precise, even slices in a range of pizza styles while also being comfortable, safe, and easy to clean.
We started with 15 cutters in five different styles, priced from $9.99 to $37.95, and an easy test: thin-crust cheese pizzas. We chose the six best cutters—two handled wheels, one hand wheel, a scissor-style cutter, one that resembles a sharp-sided pie server, and one long straight blade— and compared them cutting pepperoni pizza, Sicilian pizza, deep-dish pizza, and pizzas loaded with toppings.
The straight blade cutter couldn’t get through crusts, and testers had to…