Features:

  • Aluminum Head with a Wooden Handle all Made in the USA
  • Transfer pizzas, delicate breads, pastries, into an oven where transferring them directly by hand could deform their delicate structure
  • Peels allow food to be placed further back in an oven than could normally be reached by the baker
  • Keep the baker's hands out of the hottest part of an oven, or prevent the baker from burning their hands on the hot baked goods
  • Prior to use, peels are often sprinkled with flour, cornmeal, or milled wheat bran, to allow baked goods to easily slide onto and off them
Great for large pizzas or swinger parties

Great for large pizzas or swinger parties. At pout last party I used it to pull the pizza out of the over, then used it to paddle my neighbors wife. She loved the smoothness and warmth from the oven

Nice basic pizza peel. Only thing missing is a hole to hang it from.

This is a nice sturdy no frills peel. The aluminium is solid and has no hint of wanting to fold or flop over, while still being thin enough for sliding under a pizza. For the reviews that mention it being sticky - just make sure you're flouring the sheet before you put your dough on it and it'll slide right off with no problem. You'd have to do the same thing with a wooden peel. The only thing missing on this peel is a hole to hang it from. It was a little annoying that it didn't have one but it took all of a minute to drill one. I will say that although the sheet portion of the peel looks like it'll last forever, the wooden handle and the metal piece that connects it do feel a bit cheap. They're solid enough and get the job done but I think the wood on our handle was barely sanded if at all and there's no finish at all applied to it. We had the same issue with ours that others have mentioned where the protective plastic coating had been applied to the sheet before the handle was attached. It made getting it all off cleanly a little difficult and you can't disconnect the handle to get the stuff underneath it because the handle is just kinda stamped to the sheet. Overall it's a nice peel that does what it's supposed to with no frills. The attention to detail could use some improvement but we've made dozens of pizzas with ours so far with zero issues and I'm glad we went with this peel instead of a thicker wooden one.

Great high quality peel, although I prefer wooden for non-stick.

I cook pizzas a few times a week(I know, I'm addicted) and I have both a wooden peel and this aluminum peel. I prefer to have two peels so I can launch a pizza and prep another while the first one is cooking. In my experience the wooden peels are superior non-stick surfaces but since this aluminum is so thin it is great for pulling pizzas out of the oven. They each have their place in my mind. If I wasn't making super wet Neapolitan pizza, this peel would likely be great for all purposes but my pizzas are simply too wet to use this alone.

Excellent Pizza Peel!!

Previously, I had been using the thicker wooden peels, but getting the pizza in or out of the oven was tricky and often damaged the pizza. I bought this aluminum peel because it is larger and thinner than a normal wooden peel. I love this pizza peel! It works so well with moving the pizza in or out of the oven. It slides right under the pizza with minor effort, and slides right off when needed. I am very happy with this purchase. I have used this peel at least 10 times since I bought it, and I have not been disappointed with its performance thus far. The edges seem slightly rough, and probably could use a grinding/smoothing, but it is not really a problem. The only minor downside is that the peel does not have a way to hang it up....I ended up drilling a small hole in the wooden handle and threading a string to allow me to hang the peel on wall. Overall, if you are looking for a quality pizza peel, this is the one to buy!

Great Peel!

I have a wooden pizza peel and a bamboo one, neither of which work particularly well with homemade pizza. Even using semolina or cornmeal, the dough still tended to stick to the peel, making it hard to transfer to the pizza stone in the oven. This aluminum peel is much larger, with a slippery surface that makes transferring raw pizzas a breeze. If you watch Food Network, you'll notice that pizza joints use these aluminum pizza peels. If it's good enough for a professional pizza maker, it's good enough for me!

For years I’ve been trying to perfect making pizza in the oven

For years I’ve been trying to perfect making pizza in the oven. The dough never cooks right because I gave up warming the stone in the oven first. I also didn't want to use corn crumbs because it makes a big mess. Enter this device and someone’s suggestion of using parchment paper. We now use a pellet grill, warm the stone in the grill, slide the made up pizza with parchment paper onto the stone, wait about 4 minutes, then using this pizza peel lift between the pizza and parchment to remove the parchment paper. Then leave to cook. It just works.

Works great for BBQ grill pizza. Requires a bit of storage space.

I bought a metal pizza peel because I needed one to remove a pizza from an outdoor grill and carry it inside. Perhaps a wooden one would get some scorching from the flames. It works out great. Minor downside is that the handle doesn't seem to have been included in the advertized dimensions. Thus, I just store it in the original box standing out of sight next to the refrigerator, as it won't fit any cabinet space available.

It’s a pizza peel!

This really is a great product! But seriously what can I say about it it’s made out of aluminum it has a wooden handle you slide it under pizza and you take it out the main advantage of it is you don’t burn yourself if you use it properly, you’ll have to figure that out for yourself as there are no directions so if you burn yourself or hurt yourself with it well I don’t think they will print this review if I tell you what I really think of you, especially if you thank that the damage you do to yourself is someone else’s fault so please be careful it might have sharp edges you might catch yourself on them also if you leave it on a hot burner or place it in a stove, oven for a long period of time with the heat turned on it will get extremely hot the word might start to burn you could burn your house down or worse! Other than those warnings for people Who might be wondering it’s a great piece of aluminum it does what it’s supposed to that’s all I have to say

A tool that works.

Works as well as might be wished. Storage is a problem, so I drilled a hole in the handle to attach a heavy wire wicket, to hang on a hook out of the way. There is a plastic film that needs to be removed before sticking it into the oven to retrieve your pizza, but common sense should lead to taking that cautionary care. Slips under the pizza easily, and delivers same, if you've adequately sprinkled cornmeal on the peel before putting the pizza on to go in. A tool that works, and is the right size for the 12" pizzas I've been making.

GREAT SNOW SHOVEL TOO!

I was a bit shocked when I just opened a large box and pulled out a snow shovel I had not ordered. Then realized it was the pizza peel I had ordered. I recently moved down from a small ski village 12,000 ft in the mountains and discovered down here (at a mere mile high) I can order fresh uncooked made-to-order pizzas delivered to my home that I cook in my own oven. Wow! But then wondered why my crusts came out so gluey and gummy under the ingredients. My daughter was visiting and was like "Yo, mama, you need a pizza stone!" So I was like, "Yo, OK" and went in for a high five but missed. So I ordered a five star 16" stone from Amazon but it is so thick and heavy I was relieved the instructions said I could just keep it in the oven. Then I wondered how I would get the pizza on and off the stone because there's no way I was going to grapple with bending over and into a blazing furnace to haul out a hot heavy stone whenever I cooked one of these thin crust pizzas. So I figured I'd just use my metal spatula until I actually paused to visualize what a hot mess catastrophe I would create. Usually I figure these things after the fact. Ergo, back to Amazon and found out there is this thingy called a pizza peel and ordered it. And, with a new pizza cutter, it dawned on me I'm spending a lot of money to have non-cooked pizza delivered. Anyway, this peel is so big and long I figured I may as well construct a brick pizza oven for it. Heck, why not just open my own pizzeria while I'm at it and learn how to get homemade dough stuck to the ceiling? Talk about gluey. Anyway, I went online to return it but would have to pay 50% of its price to do that. No way. So I sat down and glared at this peel thing and after a while it started to look more and more like a snow shovel. What? Yes!! A snow shovel! And decided to keep it. Not only can I shovel pizza but snow too! Such a bargain! It's a two-in-one peel! Problem solved. Oh. And guess who's going to learn to make her own dough and pizzas? Gimme five?

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