What’s the best way to slice a pizza?

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• The hand that holds the slicer is heavy.

Waldo Pizza slices its thin crust like a grid. Pizza 51 gives you a slice the size of Kenosha, Wisconsin. And the Dish just gives you a fork and a knife and a prayer.

The Chicago Tribune talked to an engineer recently who believes that he has the perfect method for slicing a 16-inch pizza: four cuts (two vertical, two horizontal) that leave four triangular slices, four rectangular slices and a small square slice in the center. The triangles should then be sliced in half, and the rectangles should be cut into equal squares.

What’s the best way to slice a pizza pie?