Frugal Failure: Broken Pizza Cutter = Throwing Out Two Pizzas

A couple weeks ago, I spent the day making three batches of homemade pizza dough in the bread machine.  I froze two batches and planned to use the third for dinner that night.  My husband kindly offered to put the pizzas together while I went for a run.  I walked in the door smelling the most delicious homemade pizza ever!

After showering, I came back to Martin declaring he had bad news.  He informed me that the pizza cutter broke and he wasn't sure of the location of the tiny metal piece that broke off.  We searched both pizzas, and I asked him a thousand times if it broke while cutting the second pizza or the first or when.  He wasn't sure.  Ultimately we couldn't find the metal piece.  So, to be safe, we tossed out both of them and had cheese tortillas for dinner.  Talk about a bummer.

On one hand it was not a frugal failure considering how expensive doctor bills would be if one of us swallowed a metal piece that became embedded in someone's throat or intestines.  On the other hand, this is actually the second time that this exact situation has happened to us.  So, we are wasting a lot of money on thrown out pizzas and buying new pizza cutters.

Moral of the story is maybe take a look at your kitchen equipment once in a while.  If it is looking bad, it might be a good idea to replace it (with a higher quality tool) before you have to throw away your entire dinner.  Twice.