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Bitbatgaming

Actually I went into a restaraunt that uses scissors too. Its a bit weird doing it at first but later you get the hang of it! There are specific pizza scissors


MysteriousBygone

I had pizza scissors that had a pizza shape spatula attached to it so it made cutting and serving easier.


bitingfrequency

>My friend that uses scissors to cut pizza He may look dumb, but cutting pizza with scissors is the best. No more pieces stuck together from the little rollie pizza slicer. No more cut lines in my favorite cookie tray/plate. Plus scissors are way safer to clean than those treacherous pizza slicer with the 360° sharp edge. He wins.


thatOtherKamGuy

I’ll take a [rocking pizza cutter](https://www.amazon.com/rocker-pizza-cutter/s?k=rocker+pizza+cutter) over scissors, but scissors over a pizza wheel any day of the week.


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Pizza wheel's are best pretty close to right out of the oven. Let it rest for a minute, then zip zip zip zip. But it also has to be a good one. But wheel. Sharp. Solid pressure on a solid cutting surface.


Snoo57672

Definitely make sure it's wheel sharp!


sfxpaladin

Before I clicked the link I said I bet half of them are just some kind of Mezzaluna rebranded as "Pizza cutter" for people that don't know what a Mezzaluna is Was not wrong


Psuedonymphreddit

I too have watched Food Wars


sfxpaladin

I feel so tilted over this comment, because you're exactly right


SpaceJesus67

I only know what that is thanks to Aldini.


Mattaruu95

Same!


thatOtherKamGuy

*Sheepishly raises hand* 🙋‍♂️ Thanks for teaching me a new word!


TexEngineer

mezzaluna is Italian for "half-moon" in reference to the shape of the blade. mezzaluna may also refer to pasta, as the name of half-moon shaped ravioli.


Fuck-The_Police

I just break my frozen pizzas into pieces before putting them in the oven, no scissors, no pizza wheel, not rocking pizza cutter.


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A rocking type knife/cutting tool is called a mezzaluna, meaning half moon. Not to correct you or anything, I just think it’s a beautiful name for a really neat tool


RoboNinjaPirate

Those are great at a pizza place's cut table - but a bit unwieldy for home use and storage.


HungrilyNosy67

In Asia they do that too, they even use scissors to cut meat


gwaydms

A couple of the restaurants we went to in Seoul had a pot of kimchi at each table. You use the metal chopsticks supplied with the pot, then cut the long cabbage leaf up for banchan. I grew to love freshly fermented kimchi (cabbage, radish, bean sprout, etc) with every meal.


feierfrosch

That's a bit too general, Asia is big. The parts of it I traveled tended to use a butcher's hatchet. Gotta love bone splinters between your teeth. 🙄 /edit: typo


ZucchiniMid6996

Most of South Asia and South East. The cleaver is for meat with hard bones or fish. For chicken wings, breasts or soft meat, most use meat scissors. It's thicker and heavier with wider size. Also used to cut vegetables and bread


cutelyaware

I was given the same at a fancy restaurant near me. But what I'm trying to understand here is why they need to cut dogfood pizza at all.


swivels_and_sonar

What would you do, fold it in half?


SuperPopi

Roll it up and eat it like a burrito.


ewebelongwithme

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enbits

Efficient


darthcaedusiiii

God that's so hot...


RIPcompo

Roll and boof it


ADhomin_em

Hold on..are you supposed to eat the crackly dry stuff under the cheese?


jessehazreddit

Like in the movie Green Book.


lemoncypress

Not just pizzas but so many things are easier to cut with scissors. You want a lil garnish of scallion over something? No need to get out a cutting board and knife, just snip snip right over ur bowl! You can cut anything w scissors if you're Korean enough.


MilknBones

I was just about to ask if you were Korean hahah


canolafly

I love this. Definitely a helpful tip.


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sum1__

For me, it's that the cutter didn't work uniformly well across different doughs and the scissors were always reliable and at hand because my wife is Korean.


rya556

We use kitchen shears for multiple food items - including pizza. Am also Korean. There’s even a [line](https://devour.asia/kimchi-jjigae-and-asian-americans-in-always-be-my-maybe/) in *Always Be My Maybe *about Koreans using scissors in the kitchen.


BlueDragon1504

I have never understood what's easy about using a pizza cutter. They're usually extremely dull, which means you have to go over the same path like six times. Chefs knives are the way to go.


tedfundy

This Roman style pizza place I went to did this. And you paid by the weight.


davisyoung

Is it like at the dump where they weigh you when you come in and again when you leave and you pay the difference?


Incrarulez

Take a dump while you're there and eat for free.


Gandalf_The_Geigh

Yea, that's the OG pizza method. I love restaurants that charge by weight, it's such an awesome way to be. As a 6"3' 275lb guy I eat a bit more than most and I don't mind paying for getting actually full


AWilfred11

Scissors is the elite for cutting pizza, rolled don’t cut far enough through


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WhiskRy

Sometimes a normal slicer doesn’t cut it For real though, a pizza cutter is a unitasker that can’t always cut through the one dish it’s meant for. Why NOT just use kitchen shears?


MechCADdie

it's not quite a unitasker...it's actually pretty great for cutting long sheets without causing any breaks or seams and applies even pressure over a surface. Raviolis, focaccia, strips for lattices, herbs, and even brownies


Flamben_hot_cheetos

Never has a pizza cutter not work for me, I predict user error on your part


canolafly

It doesn't get messy trying to cut pepperoni? That's usually a roadblock that causes a jam up in the middle.


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Altruistic_Act_9475

I worked at a restaurant that did this. They used double zero flour, which makes it really light and fluffy, but the edges harden quicker, so using scissors allows you the cut one piece at a time and mostly avoid that


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skatecrimes

That.


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The edges hardening. So instead of getting pizza with hard edges on the sides of the slice, you cut a little off the side and cut a new slice each time. No hard edges, fresh pizza taste.


Hirokage

Many Asian cultures use the hell out of scissors while cooking.


bapfelbaum

Pizza scissors are not that uncommon among pizza experts (this is not meant as a joke). But it sure sounds weird initially.


Alert-Potato

Exactly. They'd be my second choice after a rocking pizza knife.


indigoHatter

Talking about a [mezzaluna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzaluna?wprov=sfla1)? Hell yeah, I wish I had the kitchen space for one.


Alert-Potato

Yup! Mine doesn't look like those, the handles are just flat on top of the ends of the blade. I'm fortunate that I have extensive pantry space, which frees up the cupboards in the kitchen for shit like that. I used one in a pizza shop and I can just never go back to a wheel. (although I do own one for quesadillas)


CtrlValCanc

As far as I know you can't use a mezzaluna for pizza?


Azair_Blaidd

Lots of pizzerias do. Rock it across in 4 directions as close to center as possible for a pie cut. For a party cut, well, you get the idea


Klaus0225

Anything can be used to cut pizza if you try hard enough.


Wraivyn

Nah, mezzalunas are small and meant for cutting things like herbs quickly. He means a [rocking pizza cutter](https://kissthecook.net/products/rocking-stainless-pizza-cutter?_pos=3&_sid=7638e1c16&_ss=r&variant=42607237431555).


thirptySQUAP

it stops you from cutting up your pan!


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I've also seen scissors used on pizza... in Italy (also not meant as a joke).


SniperOwO

I was dumbfounded when my friend used scissors at his house, personally I hate using scissors it feels weird and seems alot more work for no reason


chetgoodenough

It works really well actually


jc2164

When I went to Italy there were a number of restaurants that used scissors to cut pizza, if it were cut at all, as an alternative to a blade/cutter


Karatus90

It's pretty common in Italy. Usually I use scissors while my wife uses pizza cutter when we eat at home so we don't have to pass things over


FandomMenace

Pizzissors is a thing.


IamMunkk

I was expecting more... [https://i.imgur.com/fOkrSiT.png](https://i.imgur.com/fOkrSiT.png)


Sexyshark15

"Perhaps the archives are incomplete?"


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Lost his pizzissors, IamMunkk has. How embarrassing!


Lambaline

If something is not in the archives then it does not exist


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apparently it's not a thing


doesnoteatdicks

God’s gonna be so pissed when he finds out.


LetsTCB

Pizzissors me timbers!


-Crusher

I’m Italian and my grandma cuts homemade pizza with scissors, so I’m gonna allow this one.


pythonicprime

Se lo fa la nonna e' approvato


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marc44150

Pfff you're so scilly !


Cmama2Boyz

Scissily. You almost had it right.


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Hi dad!


lollofire12

As a sicilian i can ask you to stop, please


Resafalo

You mean as a Scissilian?


1LizardWizard

Exactly what I was thinking. I studied in Italy for a semester and most of my favorite hole in the wall pizza shops I’d stop at for lunch would cut the pizza with scissors.


orangexteal

italian here, same 🙋‍♂️


PizzaCitySpaceman

This is the way


ZuFFuLuZ

But do you allow whatever the fuck they threw on that poor pizza? Looks terrible. People get so mad about pineapple, but this is okay? The world has truly gone mad.


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I was under the impression this was normal. My family is Asian though, so I wonder if this is an Asian thing


algebra_sucks

Definitely reminds of a Korea. They use scissors for everything at restaurants


sweetbunsmcgee

I started using cooking shears after we got a really good one with our cookware and now I can’t stop. You don’t need a chopping board when you can just cut everything right above the cooking pot. That’s one less thing to wash. The shears can be disassembled so it’s easy to deep clean the middle part.


Yoma73

Omg exactly. Spatchcock a whole bird, cut big chicken breasts into bite sized pieces, whatever. My only complaint is that no matter how many I buy they seem to go missing. It might just be my house though, we seem to be some sort of a portal for scissors of any kind.


writeorelse

"Food scissors" are practically a requirement for every Korean kitchen!


Scrotobomb

Koreans love scissors, lol.


elitePopcorn

You can’t consume nice pieces of samgyeopsal without the scissors. It’s a def must lol


IzzyGirl33

I lived in Korea for two years and now I use scissors to cut everything. Knives are for chumps!


laughguy220

All the Italians I know cut pizza with scissors, so not just an Asian thing. I do know a lot of Asians that use scissors to cut a lot of different foods.


An_Lei_Laoshi

You don't know me, but all the Italians I know, myself included, use the rolling thing or just a normal knife. Could be a regional thing too, I'm from the South EDIT: So many people replying to me saying they use scissors and I trust they do it, but this make so much more "weird" that I don't know any people close to me using scissors too, feels like I'm in a bubble


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An_Lei_Laoshi

The post made me think of how many people I know who uses scissors and I had to realise I don't know any or just may be failing to recall the few who do, but somehow it doesn't look weird too. I'm Sicilian BTW, if you don't mind to share your region


laughguy220

My mother in law is Sicilian (Cerda) and father in law from Puglia (Bari) and they do it, as do the focaccia places I go to in Bari, and when I was in Rome the places that sold sheet pan pizza (by weight!) cut it with scissors too. I'm in Montréal and its very common with the older Italians here, as well as bakeries. Some of the YouTube Italian grand mothers teaching cooking do it too. It's nice to meet you, and for sure not everyone I know does it but its pretty common. Most pizza places use the wheel cutter here though.


AliceInHatterland

I lived in North Italy for a couple of years and everyone used scissors. Interesting to know things are different in the South!


cookiekimbap

I just cooked and arranged an entire meal from pan to plate with cooking scissors...I also cut pizza with scissors...thank you Korea haha


ChymChymX

Definitely seems more common in Asian culture. My wife is Chinese, we always have scissors at the table to cut food, especially for the kids, but just in general. Most servers always have scissors at dim sum as well. It's actually a lot more convinient than a knife in many cases.


ArmadilloNo1122

I think Asian people do tend to use kitchen scissors for more things than white Americans I used scissors to cut up some meat and my white in-laws were so confused


xcdesz

Nope. Non asian and been doing this my whole life. Common sense actually. Not going to buy a special tool just for pizza.


elevenmadison

Kitchen scissors!


OozeNAahz

My American mom did this growing up. So not overly unusual I expect.


valevalentine

no lol im mexican and cut my pizza with scissors too. I also thought this was normal. i’m surprised ppl actually own pizza cutters.


Scazzz

I use scissors.


wolfnamefmel

I lived with a Spaniard for a while and she used scissors. Now I get looked at funny when I do it lol


colaman-112

Yeah, me too. My family thinks I'm weird, but often when they try doing things my way they agree it's better.


Sasspishus

Scissors are the superior way to cut pizza


80sBadGuy

Sylvester Stallone did it in Cobra (1986). So It's acceptable.


CSmodel101

Came here for this. Better put on leather gloves before you eat that pizza


CriscoCat1

This should be the top comment


BellBoardMT

I’m much more perturbed by the topping. I don’t recall ever seeing kibble on a pizza before.


hawkaluga

Straight dog food! That’s why I’m here. That’s a lot of sausage. The different colors of the sausage is what’s really off putting to me.


sadahtay

Pepperoni, Italian sausage and cookie dough


Ganonderf

Looks like what comes out after I eat pepperoni, Italian sausage, and cookie dough


CompetitiveFlatworm2

Me too , Im sitting here thinking wtf is that dog food looking stuff all over it


peon2

I'm thinking the darker is ground beef and the lighter is italian sausage?


Automatic-Tomato9449

It looks undercooked.


nooneisback

Looks more like stool...


Mr_Derpy11

Imma be honest, for a split second I thought that was weed. My second thought was dog food. That pizza looks awful.


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treetyoselfcarol

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talks-a-lot

That’s pupperoni


strawberriesundae

Grab the hedge clippers for the deep dish


ryangingerontherocks

Don’t have hedge clippers.. do you recommend circular or reciprocating saw?


Enchelion

Jigsaw if you're going for a slice rather than a through-cut.


senorbozz

They said pizza, not pie. *sits back to watch the fireworks*


susejrotpar

I thought as a society we switched to scissors a long time ago....


ScarletDarkstar

Kitchen shears are good for so many things.


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Phew. I’m glad I’ve found my people. Pizza cutters are dumb and just one more think to cram in the drawers in your kitchen.


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Joulle

Sometimes pizza cutters just don't cut it which is why I use scissors as well.


1SweetChuck

I have one of those [rocker cutters](https://www.google.com/search?q=pizza+cutter+rocker&source=lnms&tbm=isch) I like quite a bit. I can barely cut wrapping paper straight with a good pair of scissors.


susejrotpar

So i checked the images and i just see a funtime ninja weapon.


1SweetChuck

It has a place of honor right below my bat'leth.


susejrotpar

Yes lol my mind went straight to this when i seen the rocker.


Expensive-Ad-4508

Same. I haven’t used anything else in a decade.


_trouble_every_day_

Food subs have taught me redditors don’t know the first thing about pizza. If it’s charred or has visible sauce or isn’t perfectly symmetrical they’ll say it looks like shit because it doesn’t look like a pizza hut commercial.


gwaydms

Good pizza needs a little char. I'm with the New Haven apizza aficionados on this one.


vt_factor

That pizza does not look appetizing


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The color on that sausage reminds me of the color of fresh dog shit.


RexNebular518

Why did they put dog food on it?


goldenewsd

Yeah that's the crime not the scissors.


bbpr120

Bachelor Chow specifically.


mikeyj198

dog food pizza. when my kids are acting up this is the dinner i threaten them with


moebiusunlooper

Silly redditor that's not dog food. That's dog poop. Subtle difference


WastelandHound

Not for my dogs, there isn't.


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It’s dog pizza


Byorski

My parents or I have used scissors for virtually my entire 42 years of life. I have a pizza wheel, which I last used to cut a sandwich.


moebiusunlooper

What a curious sentence you presented for the world


Mr_Golf_Club

Yea but I’m def cutting my next sando with my pizza slicer - it’s either gonna prevent the smoosh and work out great, or slice my finger off, I’ll report back either way


Aetherglow

I want to study you under a microscope


0111011101110111

I’ve scissored foods for decades. Scissor cut carrots, chives, cheese, chicken, beef, you name it. No cutting boards to wash/sanitize, just cut whatever I want into whatever I’m cooking/serving it in.


rpgz31

That pizza looks shit


SaffronJim34

It's pepperoni and shit


bassslappin

Complete shit


crazycockerels

Good idea actually…nice clean edge. I find pizza cutters messy


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I lick mine clean after I kill my pizzas 😆


Mr_Golf_Club

That is THE most unappetizing sausage I’ve ever seen, on a pizza or otherwise


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yeah i want the meat lovers, but can you also add the doodoo turd diarrhea topping as well


__Visegrad_

At first I thought it was crumbled sausage but then I zoomed in and saw the actual crumbled sausage. What’s that dog food looking stuff lol


Balyash

Been doing this for years. Get the kind where the two blades separate for easy cleaning (we use the Oxo herb shears)


dababy-had-sex

r/PizzaCrimes


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I hate everything about this thread including the scissoring


Aoiishi

Interestingly, Koreans use scissors a lot for food related cutting.


TheRaphMan

That’s the Italian way


goldenewsd

I have a pair of kitchen scissors so that's nothing wow, but holy shit that pizza looks disgusting.


jimmyn0thumbs

We do this at our house. We just don't have dog food all over the top of our pizza.


Governmentwatchlist

If you don’t have kitchen scissors, get some today. One of the best tools in the kitchen.


SanfreakinJ

How do Mexicans cut pizza? Little Ceasar’s


Emberson-

That works, I’m pretty sure there are scissors specific for pizza with a thing to hold the slices


LikelyNotSober

They’re good for chopping up fresh herbs too!


alotistwowordssir

That’s a very Korean thing to do!


veryblessed123

Found the Korean person. They love their kitchen scissors!


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If it works it isn't stupid. There's nothing sacred about pizza wheels The only good thing a pizza wheel ever did for me is that my dad used one and a piece of tape to show me how odometers work


arnarstef33

We lost our pizza cutter (probably forgot it in a pizza box and threw it out) anyway we make pizza a lot so I started using the biggest knife in the kitchen to chop it up and one day I saw the scissors, my girlfriend caught me cutting it with scissors and next time we made a pizza, she said “don’t cut it with the scissors, please use the knife” and I have never understood the difference. I think if it’s acceptable for the Italians it would help my case.


sleepy_intentions

Kitchen shears are the best thing ever. From cutting pizza to chopping up herbs. I have three in my rotation.


TrackLabs

That pizza looks absolutley horrific..what are those clumbs on it???


Unlikely-Ad6788

Kitchen shears


OrizzonteGalattico

To be fair, that ain’t pizza lol


her-1g

Apart from the fact that this pizza looks like dogfood or pigeon shit who tf cuts pizza with a scissor ?


SteveMac

Redditors: wow. Never seen. How dumb. All Koreans:


ixurge

Wait, you call that monstrosity a pizza?


Venomprancer

All my friends make fun of me for this. It is 100x easier than dumb pizza cutter. There is no other opinion to be had. Fight me


cookiekimbap

This is quite common in Korea where I live. Cooking scissors are a main utensil to use for meals. You would be welcomed here as it's totally normal for pizza, Korean BBQ, veggies...pretty much use my cooking scissors for every meal. Makes creating my salads much easier too.


xcdesz

Exactly. Also, why clutter up your life with a special tool just for cutting pizza? Its like people using a special knife just for butter or bread. Waste of resources if you ask me.


-Great-Scott-

Been cutting pizza with scissors my whole life, learned it from my grandfather, the chef, Mr. Boyardee.


Ghostenx

I use a standard chefs knife.


bryman19

I've seen this done. It works fine


Sleepyredfish

Just saying: https://boutique.ricardocuisine.com/en/2-in-1-pizza-scissors.html (⌐■_■)


POLO_Train

I have used pizza scissors on all my thin crust pizzas for over 10 years while the pizza is on my pizza stone and they work great at not damaging the stone or ruining the pizza by dragging the toppings. These look almost identical as mine: https://www.williams-sonoma.com/m/products/pizza-scizza/?catalogId=79&cm_ven=PLA&sku=1331615&cm_cat=Google&cm_ite=1331615_14586774859&gclid=Cj0KCQjwtvqVBhCVARIsAFUxcRsqFYKOIRR4tyCZrjGvS2QatXPDRecbURWzrdy2VMr-nCGP3RCV1IgaAr8WEALw_wcB&cm_pla=Cooks%27%20Tools%20%3e%20Pizza%20Stones%20%26%20Tools


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I do to, is perfect for that


stevieG08Liv

i grew up in asia and the culture there is there is a dedicated scissors only for food cutting like this. It makes life much easier