How many times do you use a pizza wheel at your house? If the answer is none, well, then you can stop reading right now. However, if you make any sort of pizza at your place - frozen or homemade - then you’ll be interested in this high performance Kitchen Aid pizza blade wheel made of stainless steel.

Like all KitchenAid items, this pizza wheel looks modern and streamlined. It has a hole in the handle for easy hanging as well as a rubber blade protector and a bottom finger guard. I bolded that word “bottom” because there is no guard on the top - you need to remember to hold this in a particular way and be careful about the top handle edge of the blade when running this back and forth.

I’ve always been curious about Mezzaluna choppers. On the one hand, they seem to be perfectly built for chopping up herbs - on the other it seems like a uni-tasker, and at the price that this one goes for I’m not yet convinced its a worthwhile purchase. It does seem like a good gift to get for a cooking enthusiast, however.

The mezzaluna is basically a curved blade with a handle that you rock back and forth on a wooden surface that’s usually curved like the maple bowl this one comes with. It’s an interesting way to cut things up, and I suspect it might take some getting used to.

I have been eyeing this cool kitchen knife gadget called the Ulu which was originally created by native Alaskans over 5000 years ago. It reminds me somewhat of a mezzaluna or some sort of cool pizza …

At first glance you might think, what’s going on with this weird looking knife that costs more than a hundred bucks? Also, I know that Global knives have been panned by more than a few pro chefs as well as Cook’s Illustrated.

However, I’ve been using this particular Global 8-Inch Vegetable Knife for almost a decade now. With a blade made of molybdenum/vanadium stainless steel seamlessly connected to a stainless steel dimpled molded handle, it’s very different than your average knife. First off, that metal handle may take some getting used to, but for me I find it’s a perfect fit. I’ve got smaller than average hands, and I’ve heard that their knife handles are actually quite a bit smaller than many European style handled knives.