So what have we learnt from this?
We started out with the idea that the Pizza Cutter maybe wasn’t the best thing to cut a pizza with. Yet the Pizza Cutter has triumphed (albeit narrowly) over the Scissors when cutting stuff that isn’t pizza. This is all well and good but it does call into question its raison d’être: what’s the point in being great at cutting stuff when the one thing you were invented for is something you’re beaten at hands-down by a generic utensil?
“Think multiple”
This naming cock-up aside, we believe that there should be a place in every kitchen for the good old Pizza Cutter, and that it should be used in harmony with a pair of Scissors. The key to successful food preparation is to think multiple - consider the following example:
You want to make a bacon butty.
Clearly the Scissors are on to a winner here - you use the “four-corner” technique on a bread roll, and chop the bacon into a handy size all using the Scissors.
Make it into a BLT, however and it’s a different story. Scissors for the roll? Check. Bacon? Check. Lettuce? We didn’t test that, but we conjecture that the Scissors are a good bet here. Tomato? Ah - well you’d need your Pizza Cutter for top-notch results. That’s thinking multiple.
It is also worth noting the following with regard to knives. While the Pizza Cutter did win more rounds, the foods it was better at cutting tended to be well suited to knife action (cheese, bakewell tart, pork pie, etc.), wheras the Scissors would probably be chosen over a knife for cutting some of the foodstuffs in the rounds it won (a good example being bacon).
Key points to take home
- It was a close fight, with both utensils peforming better than anticipated on some of the trickier items
- A Pizza Cutter is best used on anything that’s not Pizza
- The Pizza Cutter is pretty handy but faces stiff competition from the knife genre
- The Scissors have a fighting chance against knives in some areas
- A happy kitchen has both a Pizza Cutter and a pair of Scissors being used in harmony
Thank you for reading.
