You will usually find that ordering a 12-inch pizza is cheaper than ordering two 9-inch pizzas.

Is it better to order two 9-inch pizzas or one 12-inch pizza? This is another common dilemma that people face when ordering pizza for several people. Are two 9-inch pizzas bigger than one 12-inch? The amount of pizza dough used will be exactly the same no matter whether it arrives at your door measuring 8, 9 or ten inches wide. When ordering a nine-inch pizza from a local pizza shop or a national chain, you can usually expect a finished pizza that is cut into six slices. Some factors can affect the actual size, such as the pizza chef under or overstretching the pizza base during preparation.

Unless you are ordering pizza from a national chain with very prescriptive and accurate sizes, your nine-inch pizza may be anything between 8 and 10 inches in diameter. You want to make sure you order enough pizza to feed all of your guests, so working out which pizza size to order according to the number of slices provided is useful. When ordering pizza for several people for a party or get-together, these average calculations are good to know. A large pizza is 14 inches and will have ten slices. A medium-sized pizza is 12-inches and is usually cut into eight slices. Small pizzas are considered to be between 8-and 10 inches and will generally have six slices. However, as a general rule of thumb, a 9-inch pizza is usually cut into six slices when purchased from a takeaway. If you are making pizza at home from scratch, then it is up to you how many slices you cut your pizza into.

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