Diameter is what separates this from the smaller pizza cutters — a 5-inch wheel carries enough momentum to keep moving through a deep crust instead of stopping halfway and needing a second run. The handle is polypropylene, textured, and set at a height that lets you put weight over the wheel.
Deep-dish, Sicilian, thick sheet-pan pizza and heavily topped pies are where it earns the size. The bigger wheel also spans the full depth of a pan-baked crust, so a slice comes free in one motion rather than being torn apart at the base.
Dexter-Russell has manufactured cutlery in Southbridge, Massachusetts since 1818 and is the oldest American cutlery maker still in business.
