Flashes of Panic

I’ve never been satisfied with the results when I try slicing my pizzas radially (that is, the way normal pizzas are sliced.) A while ago, I realized I could do much, much better by making one slice to cut the pie in half, then two more perpendicular to the first (and parallel to each other) which cut the halves into thirds. The result is four “corner” pieces which are sort-of quarters of a disc, and two “middle” pieces which are almost rectangular. The advantage is that it works perfectly well on irregularly-shaped pies, and since I’m hand-stretching the dough, “irregular” describes nearly every pizza I make.

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