Inc. "American Metalcraft 2414 Wood Pizza Peel, 8-Inch Handle, 14""W x 15""L Blade", Brown

Good Pizza peal

I have a much larger pizza peel with a long handle that is great for large pizzas in the oven. *** I purchased this one so I could have something less unwieldy in my small kitchen to use for transferring sourdough loaves to the oven. This, dusted with a small amount of rice flour, allows me to remove the loaf from the banneton, score it, and place in the dutch oven without worrying about trying to score the loaf in a hot dutch oven. Perfect size for my use.

This is a nice, old fashioned, pizza peel. It's a bit wider than I thought it would be which is nice but I had to drill a hole in the handle to be able to hang it. I'm careful about making sure that both sides get wet when I clean it and make sure that air can get to both sides while it dries to prevent cupping but it still has a bit of cupping--not really a problem. I usually don't even have to wash it since I usually use cornmeal or flour but occasionally something spills over on it making cleaning necessary. When this happens I try not to use soapy water if possible. Treat it with mineral oil initially and periodically thereafter and it'll last for years.

I am a steel peel fan but my son-in-law, for whom this was purchased prefers wood. I see that the fresh spread pizza dough is less likely to stick to the wood than it does to the metal peel. Keep in mind for those shopping around that the wood peel is (of course) much thicker than the metal peel but the ability to slide the dressed pizza off the peel outweighs the issue of how thick the peel is. He may have converted me and this is a nice peel, a good size and it arrived well packed and quickly

Does not feel like it’s worth 40$. Arrived dirty and dented with unsanded rough edges. Functional but pretty disappointing for this price point.

good peel, I'm happy with the material, it is lightweight and sturdy.

The surface is not smooth, and should be sanded very smooth to work well. When rubbing hand across the surface, there are small rough patches throughout, which for a pizza peel, is not a good thing.

I gave it for a gift and it was exactly what she wanted