What's The Correct Way To Cut DiGiorno Frozen Pizza?

Versatile enough to serve as a weeknight dinner, a late-night snack, or the centerpiece to your game day spread, frozen pizza is one of the easiest crowd-pleasing meal solutions out there (despite the many mistakes people make with frozen pizza). However, you might not have put much thought into how to cut your pizza, or more specifically how many slices you should be cutting it into. The standard convention, as many know, is to cut pizza into eight triangular slices by making four evenly spaced diametric cuts (i.e. ones that pass through the center).

However, if you take a look at the serving size printed on DiGiorno pizza boxes, you'll notice they sometimes list ⅕ of a pizza as a single serving size. Given that five is an odd number, this puts people in the position of making an awkwardly calculated cutting attempt — one that will very likely leave them with five slices of different sizes.

There's a fairly simple solution to this conundrum: Double the number of recommended servings, cut the pizza into that many slices, and eat two slices as one serving. This works because doubling two whole integers always yields an even number. So, this trick will work whether your pizza box lists a serving size of ⅓, ⅕, or — heaven forbid — ⅐ of a whole pizza. In those cases, you'd use the typical diametric cutting technique to slice your pizza into 6, 10, and 14 slices, respectively.

Although we've established an easy workaround for this quirk, DiGiorno's odd-numbered serving sizes are still ... odd. Some commenters have taken to Reddit to poke fun at DiGiorno's listed serving sizes, with one joking, "Instructions unclear, ate 5 pizzas." Another Redditor cited their former job at a pizza restaurant, where they purportedly "mastered cutting a pizza into 10 equal pieces by eyeballing it and making 5 even cuts." They went on to add, "Only a madman would attempt to cut it as shown on the box."

Before you make any cuts, though — regardless of how many pizza roller passes you're making — you'll want to make sure you're using a sharp pizza cutter. Dull blades have a harder time cutting through toppings and the crust, which means they might cause your toppings to drag across the pizza as you cut. It's also important to let frozen pizza rest after cooking before cutting it. Doing so gives the cheese and other toppings time to settle, saving you from an unappetizing, sloppy mess. You can check the back of your DiGiorno pizza box for recommended standing times. With that out of the way, all you have left to do is discover the best style of DiGiorno pizza crust.