The pizza peel that came with my pizza stone is horribly incompetent. It is about 4 inches wide and 6 inches long. This makes it terribly difficult to place any proper sized pizzas in the oven.
I did a search for pizza peels and found a few different models. The main difference being wooden or metal. It seems to me that the metal peel would work better due to being thinner and more heat resistant.
Thoughts? Why aren't all peels metal?
Ben
Pizza peel
Started by
Schielke
, Jan 20 2003 12:20 PM
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Shiva
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Posted 20 January 2003 - 04:43 PM
The wooden peel is for placing the uncooked pizza in the oven (the pizza is less apt to stick to wood) and the metal peel is for moving and removing the hot pizza (won't burn).
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Schielke
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Posted 20 January 2003 - 05:00 PM
Ahh-ha!
Damn...now I need two peels. I was toying with the novelty of getting one of those 5 foot peels for my regular oven. It would look pretty sweet when I got pizza out of the oven, but I think I can get by without looking cool.
Ben
Damn...now I need two peels. I was toying with the novelty of getting one of those 5 foot peels for my regular oven. It would look pretty sweet when I got pizza out of the oven, but I think I can get by without looking cool.
Ben
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CathyL
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Posted 20 January 2003 - 05:30 PM
I have a cheapo wooden peel, which works just fine. It's never in the oven (or on the grill) long enough to worry about charring or combustion.
Ben, removing a homemade pizza from the oven is so cool that no one will care what kind of peel you're using.
Ben, removing a homemade pizza from the oven is so cool that no one will care what kind of peel you're using.
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Schielke
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Posted 20 January 2003 - 05:36 PM
Yeah, I was hoping the pizza would turn out good enough to make me cool.I have a cheapo wooden peel, which works just fine. It's never in the oven (or on the grill) long enough to worry about charring or combustion.
Ben, removing a homemade pizza from the oven is so cool that no one will care what kind of peel you're using.
But a sweet flame paint job on my peel couldn't hurt either.
Ben
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hjshorter
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Posted 20 January 2003 - 05:40 PM
We ordered a great wooden peel from Bowery Kitchen Supply. It's not 5 feet long, but it's pretty darn big.
Unless you have a wood-burning oven in your home (boy I wish I did) a wooden peel should be all you need.
Unless you have a wood-burning oven in your home (boy I wish I did) a wooden peel should be all you need.
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Dana
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Posted 20 January 2003 - 11:11 PM
I have a wooden peel, but am going to get another so that I 'll have 2. When making pizza, it, to me, is much easier to assemble the pizza on the peel, then put it in the oven, rather than assembling it on the board, trying to get it on the peel, then into the oven. If you're assembling on the peel, you can't remove the one that's in the oven cooking, hence the need for a second peel.
I hope that made sense.
My little family can eat them faster than I can make them!!!
I hope that made sense.
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