Do you care how your pizza is cut?

I mean, it is a little odd to use scissors. I’m not going to say I “care” because it seems too strong, but it’s just unusual. Eating pizza with a fork and knife is weird also (unless it’s Chicago deep dish) but when we moved from NY to MD that’s exactly what a lot of people in MD did, and we did judge it. lol. It would be like eating a hot dog in a bun with a fork and knife, it’s just not the typical way it’s done.

Scissors used for cooking typically are rather short. It would take a lot longer to cut pizza with scissors than with a pizza cutter, or even a regular knife. The scissors just aren’t as fast, not as efficient.

I don’t always have confidence people clean their kitchen scissors after every use. I would trust that a chef does, but not the average person. My kitchen scissors come apart easily, and I can clean them like two separate knives. I pop them right in the dishwasher.

I thought you were talking about squares like Chicago or triangles like New York, I like triangles but “Double cut” with sixteen slices instead of eight.

Scissors ? ?

When the pizza is hot and the cheese is melty, using scissors may necessitate lifting the pie up off the counter in order to get the scissors underneath. Therefore, the cheese will run off of the pizza. Also, it’s not fast and efficient to use scissors, like a pizza cutter. A pizza guy can cut a pie up in about ten seconds with the rotary thing.

Yeah, you can be pretty sure it’s not a pizza parlor cutting with scissors.

It would seem that cutting pizza with scissors is inherently unsanitary, unless they washed the scissors well between cuts, which seems unlikely. A rolling pizza cutter is much easier to use, and especially, to clean.

As a pizza consumer, triangular (traditional) slices taste better than square-cut portions.

I like ‘m torn up.
Grrrrrr

They must be identical slices to the exact millimetre, failure results in an immediate firing.

Nope. I’m with the anti-scissor folks, sounds weird and unsanitary.

No scissors please. That is just weird and unhygienic..

I use scissors in place of a knife for a lot of things. Cutting up
raw bacon for example.

@flutherother and co. how is it more unhygenic than a knife? Are you assuming we don’t wash the sissors just like we would a knife?

^^If the blades don’t easily come apart where the blades are always touching near where they are joined together, it seems like people could easily not be getting that area very clean. I do think a lot of people don’t wash the scissors depending what they are opening. Cut a bag of potato chips open, some might not. Cut up a raw chicken, I’d assume everyone does after that.

My MIL cuts bread and doesn’t always wash that knife. Maybe others do the same? I always wash my knife. Some people just rinse their can opener, and don’t really suds it up and wash it from I’ve seen.

I have one pair of kitchen scissors that come apart with a twist. Another that you need to unscrew the thingy. I would never again buy one that didn’t come apart with just the twist.

Having said all of that, the pizza cutter is tricky to clean without cutting yourself. You can’t win.

I prefer a pizza cutter and triangles please.

Well, I don’t care how it’s cut, and if someone hands me a slice (or a square, or a circle or a parallelogram I will be grateful and not worry about the cutting device or the cleanliness of the cutting device, as I ave never had a stranger outside of a restaurant cut a pizza for me.

@Dutchess_lll I don’t use scissors with food and don’t clean them to the same standard.

I always cut my pizza (or order it when getting it at a restaurant) double-cut. It was a habit we go into when the kids were little, because it allowed them to handle the slice better. It also is less of a commitment and less of a loss if someone drops it.

But I find that double-cut works better for adults too. The normal size triangle sizes are arbitrary. You may only want 1.5 slices. This solves the problem.

I’ll eat square pizza, but I don’t prefer it. There are crustless slices.

EDIT: Utensil used to cut it doesn’t matter.

Takes all kinds, but I don’t give a shit. Light saber or Samurai sword, and the geometry of the slice is equally irrelevant.

@flutherother…if you DID use sissors on food you WOULD clean them to the same standards, wouldn’t you?
Other than that, who actually cleans their sissors? I don’t.

@Dutchess_lll I do, but we open all kinds of things with scissors, from cereal to liquids to dog food bags.

Why are you making this so ridiculously complicated? Get 1 pair for the kitchen and another pair for cutting up dog poop or whatever. Get the kind you can pull apart and stick them in the dish washer.
No wonder FB exploded. Heaven forbid anyone think outside the box.

Using scissors to cut pizza seems cumbersome, at best. And if I saw someone using scissors to cut my pizza, I just wouldn’t be able to help myself to think about what they had cut just before (without properly washing those scissors).

My mind goes to beards, raw chicken, and their dog’s hair. And maybe even a toenail or two.

Pizza cutters are made for cutting pizza. Scissors are not. You could also use an axe, or a nail file to cut pizza, but most people wouldn’t.

Kardamom….not if the sissors are specifically for kitchen use.

They actually make sissors for food preparation. They’re called kitchen shears. I first saw them used on that food show, Primal Grill. I thought it was genius and I have used them since.
I don’t use them for anything else like picking my nose.

@Dutchess_lll: I think the issue is that you could use scissors to cut pizza but it’s not the most efficient tool for cutting pizza.

I wouldn’t think so either. But neither is using a knife. I don’t have a pizza cutter so I’ve always used a knife. It’s a pain. I think sissors would work better but it just didn’t occur to me to use them…till now
:D

No. It’s sorta like asking if it is proper to eat pizza with your fingers. You eat pizza “with your mouth but you may use your fingers to stuff it in there.” (To quote an old manners book that I forget the title of, in describing how to eat fried chicken.)

@hmmmmmm Does double cut mean thinner triangles? I don’t know what size pizza you are eating, or how many slices your pizza usually comes with, but in some instances it would be harder to control the slice. Very thin and long, if you can’t fold it, the end would sag down I would think.

Yes. Half size slices, length wise. If we’re ordering for kids I.also get double cut. It’s not so overwhelming for the kids.
Also, for those who are concerned about it, smaller portions actually encourage the kids to eat more.

I use a big ole butcher knife. I don’t care how it’s cut it just needs to be some damn good pizza.

I have a friend who won’t eat squares. I don’t get it.
Edit- I just read @hmmmmm’s response about squares. That makes sense.

When I was a kid I liked to order Sicilian pizza (squares) sometimes, because I didn’t like the crusts, so I’d ask for the center pieces. It was more stable to hold also, but this was in NY, where the pizza slices are very large. Where I live some places don’t have pizzas larger than 14 inches. We do have one place that sells a typical NYC slice though.

Blasphemy – Abomination – Horror

I blame the Mesopotamian woman who invented scissors before she invented the wheel about 4,000 years BCE.

That afternoon she baked flat bread with stuff on top and cut it into pieces.

At home, I prefer to cut pizza with kitchen shears. It allows me to vary the size of each slice; since it’s easier to stop at the midpoint than with a rolling pizza cutter. Also, our kitchen shears come apart, so cleaning them isn’t an issue.

At a restaurant, I’d prefer they use the rolling kind. It’s faster and easier to clean.

As for shape, the shape of the slice depends on the shape of the pizza. I don’t have anything against a square slice per se. But cutting a round pizza into square pieces inevitably leaves you with some sad pieces.