Customer Reviews

OXO Good Grips 4-Inch Pizza Wheel

5 star:		(28)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This is a sturdy, big, 4-inch pizza wheel, complete with thumb guard, which produces clean, straight-through cuts on the first run every single time. Its smooth-running, beveled wheel blade never seems to need sharpening and its hefty body fits comfortably in the hand, making it require less force to operate than the more traditional lightweight cutters do, and rendering it perfect for pizzas, pie crusts, dough, etc.
Like the rest of the products from the OXO Good Grips line, this one is a great value of superior quality, unsurpassed durability and flawless performance. Its ergonomic design and big, pressure-absorbing, outstanding non-slip grip, complete with flexible fins to accommodate your fingers and an oversized hole for easy hanging, allow you comfortable, daily, wet or dry use. Its elegant, stylized shape makes it perfect to move back and forth between the kitchen and the dinner table.
Its easy-to-clean, simple construction and dishwasher-safe, hard-wearing materials make this a tool that you will be able to depend on for years, and its stainless-steel metal parts will permanently keep your rust worries away.
After submitting this product to over two years of normal use, mine is still just like new.
--Reviewed by M. E. Volmar

I purchased this pizza cutter after reading a review in Cook's Illustrated magazine. I wanted to make homemade pizza with my new baking stone and figured my old pizza cutter (which was much smaller than this one) needed to be replaced. This 4 inch cutter worked great! It cuts right through the crust the first time and cleaned up easily.

Comfortable handle, sharp, cuts well, rolls easily, and easy to clean. What more can you want?

WHILE THIS CUTS THROUGH PIZZA AS ADVERTISED, THE CENTER OF WHEEL IS NOT STAINLESS STEEL AS ADVERTISED. MINE STARTED SHOWING RUST IN CENTER OF WHEEL AFTER 10 WASHINGS!

I bought this product one year ago, the first pizza wheel I've ever purchased, at the age of 35. I use it to cut through store-bought pizzas that one can buy in the frozen foods section of a supermarket.

The blade is very sharp and cuts through the pizza dough effectively - I've no complaints about how well the product works. On the pizzas that I eat, which are on the smaller side, I'm not so sure if a pizza wheel is any more effective than simply using a sharp knife, but a pizza wheel certainly is more fun to use.

My concern with the overall design of the pizza wheel is that the entire wheel blade is completely exposed. Even with the "thumb guard" offering some protection, it's not beyond reason that if you are pushing the blade forward through the pizza, that your thumb could slip forward toward the blade should the wheel catch on something.

This is not a problem specific to this particular pizza wheel, of course, but to most all pizza wheels. So, my remedy to avoid this is to pull the wheel toward me when I cut.

Now, I use this to cut through cooked store-bought pizzas, which, because they are initially frozen, may have harder crusts once they come out of the oven. Or maybe I'm just an inept pizza cutter. But for those of us who are not mechanically inclined (i.e. can't hammer in a nail straight), it would be nice if the designers of this product put a guard over the wheel itself, similar to the plastic shield cover you see in a machine shop when the craftsmen use a power saw tool to cut through wood (which I also can't cut straight).

Perhaps that's a bit extreme (after all, we don't wear safety goggles when cutting pizza...), but it's something I thought worth noting.

As a disclaimer, I would like to add that I *do not* work for OXO or any other food design/manufacturer/service industry.

Peace and happy pizza cutting!

... Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the pizza...

Even though I very clearly read that this is a 4-inch pizza wheel, I really did not expect it to be this... big...

This is one hefty pizza cutter. I like to make pizza with lots of veggie toppings, and it slices right through every time. Whether or not you have to go back and forth seems to be dependent upon how crunchy you like the bottom of the crust. A softer crust slices easily with one pass. A crunchy bottom crust requires a bit more work, but not enough to give this a negative rating.

What I really like about the cutter is the feel in the hand, and the easy cleanup. (Spray the cutter lightly with no-stick spray before using, and cheese, etc. rinses right off.) The bracket that holds the wheel in place is far enough away from the wheel that cheese and bits of topping do not get stuck between the bracket and the wheel. (I had that problem with my previous pizza cutter, and had to literally soak it in water after every use, and push the debris out with a toothpick. What a pain...not to mention the yuck factor in not being able to really get it clean.)

I hand wash and dry the cutter after every use, which I hope will avoid the rust issue that other reviewers mentioned.

I am very pleased with this purchase.

This is THE BEST pizza cutter I have ever used (and we eat homemade pizza at least twice a week). It is much easier to use than just about every other pizza cutter out there due to the large wheel and plastic bushing in the hub. The cutter rolls very, very smoothly, and cuts through toppings, like pepperoni, without sliding them around into gooey mounds of cheese.

The blade on mine is all stainless steel, thus no rust, and I've had mine for 2 years now.

For best results, you should hold this cutter very upright and apply enough down force. I cut my pizzas into 8 slices in a couple of seconds, and never have to retrace my cuts, unless I got lazy and didn't push down hard enough.

I ordered a pizza stone and this cutter. I didn't realize that it was 4". It's a big one. We laughed at the size. All I know is if we ever make a thick pizza...... we will be able to cut it. :)
Don't let kids use it. I think it could remove a finger. It's a good one !

You can not buy a better pizza cutter at this price. This pizza cutter is well made. Oxo always uses high quality materials in the products they make. The handle fits my hand perfectly. I have used this pizza cutter on a number of thick crust pizzas. It sliced all of them with ease. I highly recommend this pizza cutter.

I also read the review in Cook's about this giant pizza wheel. I was sold, so I bought. I do love Oxo products and this has the typical Oxo grip - large and tactile. The thing is, it just isn't that spectacular at cutting thru my store-bought California Kitchen or Totino's pizza. I had to go back and forth, back and forth. Sigh......I might as well go back to using scissors.