New Star Foodservice 50295 Restaurant-Grade Wooden Pizza Peel, 16" L x 14" W Plate, with 10" L Wooden Handle, 24" Overall Length

I have read in various places that it can be hard to slide your pizza odd the peeler and into the over. Wooden are the best as they have natural air pockets, followed by the metal with holes and last the plain metal ones. Highly recommend this. Even though it is large, it is not too heavy.

Husband the pizza maker loves these. We’ve got steel pizza peels but he fancied going old school abs great for making pizza directly onto it

Here's the solution I found for a very useable home-based gas-grill pizza oven. This is the key to crispy chewy pizza thin-crusts, and tastes just as good as any wood-fired pizza restaurant (think Wolfgang Puck or California Pizza Kitchen). Oh, and the pizzas are far cheaper to make. The Dough: (told to me by a professional restaurateur) use any basic yeasted pizza dough recipe from the internet. Nothing special, no special flours or ingredients needed, just white flour, yeast, salt, sugar, water, a bit of oil. The key is to let the yeast over-rise. Yes - give it a couple hours, maybe punch it down a couple times. But let those little yeast buggers eat up every bit of sugar they can find. I often throw in a quarter cup of gluten flour which I suspect makes the dough extra stretchy, but I haven't compared this side-by-side, so I may be kidding myself. Roll it out and transfer the dough to this wooden pizza peal. Use plenty of corn grits or corn meal underneath to allow it to slide around. You’ll need this to maneuver it into the grill, which is a small trick but very learnable. I've learned to scootch the completed dough & toppings around on the peal with short quick horizontal shakes. (don't overdo it, or you’ll dump your hand-crafted pizza on the floor). Also try to keep the peal as dry as possible, i.e. don't get sloppy with the sauce, and use plenty of cornmeal. The Pizza-oven on the Grill: restaurant-quality pizza needs to sit in heat that's around 700 degrees F or even higher. Guess what - your typical home oven doesn't go that high!! Not even close. And you need that heat being strongly radiated from top and bottom. Otherwise, you'll burn the bottom waiting for the cheese to melt and bubble. Solution: buy a case of untreated simple clay flooring tiles. Make sure it’s untreated (no glaze, no decorations, no designs, you want the smooth surfaced ones). Home Depot sells 6 inch square tiles for about $30 bucks a case (30 pcs). Buying two commercial-made pizza stones will set you back more than $100, and if (more like when) they crack, you have to buy a new one. My pizza oven on a gas grill uses 16 of these tiles, and I've cracked a couple in the last year - easy to replace from the remainder of the tiles in the case. You need both a top layer and bottom layer of these tiles. To hold up the top layer, I use four standard clay bricks (also untreated), and some basic steel slats (from Home Depot). Put down one layer of tiles, and the bricks on edge on each end. Lay the slats across the bricks, and build the upper tile layer on top of the slats. You’ll have a heat compartment about 4 inches high, and as deep and wide as your grill will allow. I trained an IR temperature gun on the inside of the tile compartment built inside a natural gas-fired grill and it clocked in at about 750F, after heating up. That's a lot of thermal mass, so give a good 30-45 minutes to get up to temp. If you use a propane grill, it’ll get hotter than that. No worries - just watch closely and pull your pizza out sooner when it looks done. Either way, you’re going to be cooking pizzas for about 3-4 minutes instead of 10 or 15. (more on that later). The Method: I found (the hard-way) that you need two pizza peals – one wood (to put in) and one metal (to take out). I first only bought the metal peal (Kitchen Supply 14-Inch x 16-Inch Aluminum Pizza Peel with Wood Handle), but found that metal just grabs wet pizza dough and you can’t easily get the pizza to slide off into the hot oven. You wind up having to use your fingers or a spatula, neither of which is well suited for 750F. Using the handle only, you want to be able to slightly shake the peal and gently scootch the pizza off onto the grill. Metal isn’t suited for that. So I ended up with a wooden peal (New Star Foodservice 50394 42-Inch Wooden Pizza Peeler with 20-Inch by 22-Inch Blade). That worked perfectly. Now I roll out the dough, move it to the wooden peal (lots of cornmeal/grits underneath), build the pizza (sauce, toppings) while it’s on the peal. Then take it directly to the oven and slide/scootch it in, and close the lid. THEN SET YOUR WATCH. This is important. If you’re used to it taking 10 or 15 minutes to bake a pizza, you’ll find your perfect creation to be a burnt mass of carbon if you wait that long. Depending on how hot your grill is and how thick you made your pizza, you’ll only need about 3-4 minutes before taking it out. This is where the metal peal comes in. The wooden unit is actually fairly thick (1/2” or so). It’s not going to easily get underneath the baked pizza, and after awhile, jamming the wooden peal on top of 750F tiles isn’t going to leave it in very good shape. That’s where the thin metal blade of the other peal comes in. It’s perfect taking out the hot pizza and leaving the tiles in good shape for the next one. That’s it – two pizza peals, one gas grill, a case of tile, some bricks and steel slats. You have all the makings of a perfect commercial grade pizza oven.

I purchased this pizza peel because it was 100% wood and listed at a great price (hence the 5 Star Rating), and so far it has worked great. Prior to using I found how to seal the product - using pharmaceutical grade mineral oil (purchased from either Amazon or a local pharmacy) - to ensure that it doesn’t stain or split, and after several uses, it is working great. As an improvement, a hole located at the narrow end of the handle (for hanging purposes) would be nice, as the peel is rather long to be placed in most cabinets or shelves.

I was always having problems with the pizza sticking to the metal peels when launching pizzas. Once we figured out the dough making learning curve and could set the dough down on the peel mostly stretched ....instead of kneeling it out pushing the dough into the cornmeal and sucking it up....it was a breeze. A pizza 16 inches in diameter would float on the peel like it was in a pool floating on water. Which made it easy to launch. When we first got it, we put heavy amounts of mineral oil on it on 3 separate occasions throughout an hour and a half and let it soak in. Because our pizza steel made the dough nice and crusty, I think we might try pulling the pizza out with the wooden one next time instead of metal. I will not cut my pizza on the peel. I just feel that it will aid it in cracking in the future or causing ridges that will catch it while leaching which is the main point of the peel. Edit: Months later of making pizzas and it's still odd to me how a wooden pizza peel makes it launch so easily compared to metal but whatever it works every time. Edit2: Don't store the paddle on a pizza stone. We did this and was wondering why thr pizza stone is smoking in the oven. We later figured out that thr stone must of soaked up thr oil from the paddle. The stone is garbage now as it has oil stains on it and unsure how much oil is soaked into it. Edit 3: once a year I will apply a littlr morr mineral oil. I try to do it in the winter when its dry to avoid it cracking. Haven't had it crack at all. Still works like the day I bought it

This pizza peel is wonderful! It’s a good size, especially if you want to make pizzas that are not too large and make, perhaps, a couple with different toppings. I was afraid at first that the raw dough would stick to it, but with a generous sprinkling of semolina rimacinata (finely ground semolina) the pizza slides off like a charm. There is no need to wash it afterwards, just thoroughly brush off the semolina afterwards and you’re ready to go. I use it with my cast iron pizza pan which is heated in the oven for about half an hour. I heartily recommend it!

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