Festool says that “cordless power meets ultimate pizza precision,” with this new elbow grease-powered pizza cutter.
Styled after their track saws, the Festool Pizz-TS features a food-safe ABS housing and 85mm x 0.8mm stainless steel blade.
The blade slides out for cleaning.
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Cute.
Price: $30 + $7.95 shipping
Not a fan of Festool? You can get a sidewinder circular saw-style pizza cutter for less than half the price.
You won’t be able to boast about your new Festool saw, but it should do the job just as well.
Price: $16-17
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Nathan
That tracks on multiple levels
Nice
Jared
Ha. Good one
Bonnie
If it’s compatible with the track this’d be extra amusing.
Stuart
Definitely not – this is small and typical pizza cutter-sized.
Joel
Haha! Mini track should be sold separate for perfectly straight pizza cuts every time
Jared
A bit pricey, sure, but it’s pure novelty and made me smile. I like it.
Rob H
Totally checked the date when I saw this! Very cool.
BigTimeTommy
Smiling thinking about someone in a meeting at Festool saying “Of course the pizza cutter should cost that much, we need to stay on brand.”
Saulac
“Cordless”. I see what you did there Stuart. You got my brain went into overdrive thinking about how an actual powered cordless tool would work.
TomD
I e seen someone mixing some dough (I think) with a drywall mud mixer and a cordless drill. It’s probably more common than we think.
Blocky
This is how we mixed 5 gal of pizza sauce at Papa John’s 20 years ago. Doubt it’s changed.
JoeM
I am simultaneously thinking “Why the hell would they feel the need to do this?” and also “Why the hell hasn’t DeWALT done one? I’d rather these brands release a Pizza Cutter than a Bottle Opener!”
This is very confusing, Stuart. I don’t know what to think here. I do know it would genuinely be nice if I could load an oversized pizza-cutting blade onto my DeWALT Circular Saw (and also imagine it be nice to have it compatible with any-and-all power tool brands’ circular saws at that!) but at the same time… What else can we cut with this? Cake? I know a DQ Ice Cream Cake can be a real pain in the tuchus to get a knife through… A power-tool company’s themed Pizza Cutter, with an extendable blade, could solve this, without so much of an effort.
But… It’s still a novelty… I do bake from time to time, and I know turning bread dough into regularly-sized portions can be annoying, which would make one of these very useful as they are… This kinda breaks my brain in all the bad ways… It’s fun, and yet… Why?
Stuart
Why not?
No, this won’t cut cake, it’s a pizza cutter. Can a regular pizza cutter cut cake? If not, why a novelty pizza cutter?
JoeM
This is where it’s only the size of the cutter that makes a difference, and if it was full-sized instead of novelty, it likely would serve more purpose than just Pizza. Though… This would make a lot of Nerds (Like Myself) very happy as a gift for “Pi Day”, as it could likely be used to cut both Pizza, and actual Pie of whatever type you may have acquired for this March 14th Celebration.
…I am serious about a full-sized slicer blade for circular saws though. At least the hand-held ones, and grinders…. 4″, 5″, 6.5″, 7.25″… If I’m missing one in there, I think you’ll understand me anyways. It’s just a rotating knife blade, same as a Pizza Cutter is meant to be. But, there are rotary cutters from OLFA as well, meant to be used in crafts and such. I don’t know every single trade’s needs, but a large, rotating, slicer, would probably be pretty marketable overall. It may even be ideal for rubber, vinyl, and other super-soft worksite uses. Perhaps even carpet, I don’t know. I just have an image in my head of it being useful due to speed, and less fatigue than pulling a standard utility knife.
Or am I crazy here? (Well, you know I am Crazy, but… You know what I mean.)
Stuart
An 85mm cutting wheel isn’t much different from a 4″ pizza cutting wheel.
A pizza cutter has a rotating blade, but it doesn’t rotate in the same manner as a powered circular saw. Most pizza cutters doesn’t really cut, they cleave. Otherwise it might tear, and nobody wants jagged pizza slice edges.
Blocky
Industrial cardboard cutters such as used for sectioning concrete form tube are essentially continuous knife edge circular blades, like a pizza cutter. I’ve been looking for one at 10” for use in a table saw, but find that they only seem to be available by custom made.
I think the reason is they would be incredibly dangerous for manual operation. A bevel towards a fence would bind bc the kerf of the material is not being removed. Even a single bevel away from a fence would likely bind over a long sheet with any depth of cut and a matched riving knife would be required which would also be quite thin.
Imagine this zero kerf concern on an angle grinder – any depth of cut or shift from the plane of entry would likely cause near instantaneous binding in a host of materials! (Especially rubber, for instance, which also would burn at those rpms.)
I too would love a powered solution for these types of tasks, and it might have such a blade, but I think it’s going to be a specialized tool with a distinct keyed-arbor shape.
JoeM
I do see what you mean, Stuart. I’m not arguing against you, of course. It’s just a thought, seeing these “Novelty” Pizza Cutters, it makes me think “What about a full-sized blade?” Sure, in my rambling about putting them in power tools, it sounds like I’m thinking that rotating the blade with a motor would serve a purpose. Truth is, I don’t know if that would work or not. (I think Blocky answers that question very well, and I thank him for that.)
I think my curiosity comes from so many times that I’ve seen alternative/not recommended uses for power tools. Recip saw used to carve a turkey, Jigsaw used to make a Jack-O-Lantern, etc. If the blade was put on the full sized tool, whatever the size, and simply pushed along, would the weight of the tool alone assist in the cut? I mean, obviously, things like machine oil, and liquid splatter from the food would cause problems somehow when the tool was powered on. Plus, it’s not like a dust collection system is going to help here, I don’t think the liquid content would be saved from damaging the tool, necessarily. I… Simply wonder if a full sized version could do more manually. Less “Novelty” and more realistic. Even if it’s not “Pizza Cutter” sized, I wonder if there would be a way to create these “Novelties” to be more multi-use. A 6.5″ or 7.25″ full sized “Novelty Saw” might be more useful than my stupid idea. I even see in one of the lower comments that a Mitre Saw version, or a 10″ version for a Table Saw was being looked into. I would have to agree, there. Why Not? We’re tool people, right? Why not allow for some non-standard uses for our tools?
Like I said, if I’m crazy for thinking all of this (Though I already admit I’m actual Crazy as it is.) it’s just that simple. I’m Crazy for thinking it. Though, the Nerdy part of me would still enjoy a DeWALT Pizza Cutter, perhaps just with a slightly larger radius so it can cut more than just Pizza. If I would enjoy that from DeWALT, I’m sure my counterparts who swear by other brands would enjoy the same, right?
Stuart
“I’m thinking that rotating the blade with a motor would serve a purpose.”
What purpose?
A pizza cutter blade does not rotate against the pizza.
Consider a car tire. It rolls against the ground, propelling the car forward, correct? When a car spins their tires, such as in snow, it doesn’t move forward.
In theory, even if you scale up a pizza cutter for cutting cake, you would not want it rotating relative to the cake. You wouldn’t want that though, since it would drag and smudge the frosting. Top down tends to work best. They have large cutters that look kind of like a bow saw.
J. Newell
Yes to that, and if it really had teeth to cut the pizza, think of –
1. all the cheese and other bits that would get stuck insides, and
2. the bits of cardboard, or wood cutting board, or whatever else the pizza is placed on, that would wind up in your pizza slices.
The current design works for me!
TomD
This one can cut a cake: Stainless Steel Mezzaluna Knife with Cover – 12 In. Curved Blade with Solid Steel Handles & Mezzaluna Sheath – Pizza Cutter Rocker, Rocker Knife Veggie Cutter, Salad Chopper, & Herb Cutter https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077QFHJ8P
Stuart
Yes, but that’s not a regular pizza cutter, it’s a mezzaluna. You can cut a large pizza with that, it’ll just take a couple of times as long as a simple rotary blade pizza cutter.
Will
Yeah this is for FESTOOL nuts imo. My Walmart branded model works just fine and from what I can see a lot easier to clean.
Franco
I think a bottle opener is practical. This Festool cutter may not be as practical as a cheap $4 pizza cutter, but something like this has huge WOW factor.
I fully agree that it probably won’t cut great, a pain to wash, and once you use it in front of your woodworking buddies, it will lose its charm.
But for those few times you get to WOW and dazzle those buddies, MasterCard’s slogan was…….priceless!
AlexK
Waiting for a sliding chop saw for cutting veggies.
A.Maddock
I like this idea.
Step it up with a sharpened nylon/polycarb blade and it would great for encouraging kids.
Hey kids, if liked cutting up celery with that kitchen chop saw wait till you see what we can do on this one.
Blocky
I think y’all are about to invent the deli slicer.
tim Rowledge
Needs an AI driven “spot and extract the olives” function, though of course that would require the accessory CT vac
Jeremiah D
Of the dtyluzed, branded pizza cutters ive seen I think the campagnolo one is the only one more pricey. I did get a park tool one years ago. The pricing is certainly consistent with festools products
MtnRanch
Is it April the 1st already?
Doresoom
I actually did an April Fools review video of the Pizza Boss a few years ago!
SaratogaJerr
Brushed or brushless?
Adjustable cutting height?
Right and left-handed blade options?
Franco
This looks nice and may be cool when friends are over, but with the blade cover and other parts, I just see a pizza cutter which is going to have cheese, green peppers and pepperoni lodged in tough to clean areas. Cool at first, a pain to clean after and finds itself at the back of the utensil drawer.
Peter
My thoughts too.
Robert
Truly, is the Festool one for real? Look at the relative size of it to a pizza. How will you control it during the cut? Are you going to lay a Festool track over the pizza served to your guests? Maybe if your guests are drunk enough to cheer you on. But then you are probably drunk too and shouldn’t be anywhere near a spinning blade. Assuming your guests are sanguine with eating pizza spiced by track rubber and aluminum, what is the sacrificial cutting board under the pizza? OSB, Baltic birch, pressure treated Douglas fir, your spouse’s favorite pristine cutting board?
Sergey
How is the crumb extraction? Also, no riving knife? Really, Festool?
Frank D
Now where did I put the allen wrench so I can undo the four hex bolts to take the cover off and clean this thing???
J. Newell
All I have to add here is that the blade on this little “saw” is very sharp, though I have no idea how long it will stay that way. Probably depends a lot on what the pizza is on when it’s used. As many of you observed, it is both very cute and quite pricey.
Ray
My wife bought this for me for Father’s Day. Least expensive Festool kit I own! Only problem with it is that it cuts pizza into 10 slices instead of 12.
Jim Felt
Good one!
Stuart
Ha!
12? And not 8?
J. Newell
😀 G-r-o-a-n!
Munklepunk
I normally don’t spend money on novelty, but a good quality pizza cutter isn’t cheap. My only question is if it needs the blue replaced is it proprietary?
Sam Greenfield
I’m confused. Why use this when you have a sawzall?