A few weeks ago I ended up having to toss our old pizza cutter due to rusting and a degraded handle.
As I held this poor, defenseless kitchen utensil in my hand, I tried to recall the last time I actually used it.
For me it’s been at least six months and even then the last time I used it wasn’t even on pizza!
We also sometimes use pizza cutters for pies and quiches depending on the season and whomever is in the mood to bake.
It hasn’t been used on frozen pizza in well over a year to my knowledge.
And I don’t know if that means we’re healthier as whole either.
I think we probably order pizza more than actually heating up one from the store – or we’re not eating pizza at all.
This has one of those age-old hypotheticals that I would have used for a science fair entry several decades ago.
You know, the ones were you have to prove cause and effect of some hypothetical questions that you can experiment with and get results about.
In college, that was bumped up to the fancy “correlation and causation” lesson that still irritated me to no end in my statistics and data analysis class.
Overall, the goal was to learn that just because some things happen at the same time, it does not mean that one is making the other happen.
Looks like that good old “cause and effect” was masquerading with those high-dollar university words!
But, I’ve also still got no idea if missing a pizza cutter means we ate less pizza overall or not.
Either way, it was late Sunday afternoon when I realized that if we were going to actually make our own pizza this week when my sister Ashlee came to visit then we’ll need a new pizza cutter.
Naturally, like the rest of my generation, I took to Amazon to peruse their offerings before heading into town to buy something at one of the local stores.
Whew – I don’t know if you’ve looked at the price of pizza cutters lately, but what I was imagining at a $5 price point certainly surprised me at over $15!
I mean, I did factor in nifty features like a stainless steel blade, it being dishwasher safe, finger guards and free shipping.
I think the weirdest thing was to see that the highest customer-rated pizza cutters were actually the long, rocking blades that you were supposed to use with two hands.
I hadn’t really seen those outside of the commercial kitchen area before and briefly contemplated one before I remembered that we had to actually store it in a drawer.
So, that was a nixed idea and I scrolled further down along the rows of possibilities before deciding on one despite it being bigger than I expected.
And when it arrives, I don’t know how convinced mom will be that a four-inch blade is really necessary for a pizza cutter.
But, when she compares it to the other options I found, perhaps she won’t throw a fit about having something so large in her utensil drawer.
That might actually be another experiment to prove or disprove cause and effect. –
I’ll let you all know.
