Wooden pizza peels are a smart addition to any pizzeria! Handle pizza screens and pans with ease in your pizza oven. Choose from the different widths offered by Zanduco that best suit your business—from commercial kitchens to residential ones. Choose a handle length that is more comfortable for you! A longer handle allows you and your staff to distance yourselves from the oven but still easily place and retrieve your pizzas and other baked goods. Johnson & Rose and Omcan are 2 of the top market brands today, so be sure to invest in an wooden pizza peel from them now!
Not looking for a wooden pizza peel? Zanduco also carries aluminum pizza peels for your convenience!
Frequently Asked Questions
What are wooden pizza peels best at?
Launching raw dough is their strength. Wooden pizza peels have a surface that dough grips less, so a topped pie slides into the oven without sticking. Omcan offers several blade sizes.
How big do the wooden pizza peels get?
Blade sizes step up by pie size. Confirmed wooden pizza peels run 12 by 14 inches, 14 by 16 inches, and 18 by 18 inches, so you can match the board to a personal pizza or a large family pie.
Which wooden pizza peels fit large pies?
For big pies, the 18 by 18 inch wooden pizza peels give the surface to carry an oversized crust without overhang. Smaller 12 by 14 inch boards suit personal and medium pizzas on a tighter line.
Do wooden pizza peels need less flour than metal?
Often, yes. The grain on wooden pizza peels holds a light dusting that keeps dough from sticking, so you may use less flour at launch than on a smooth metal blade. That makes them forgiving for newer staff.
Are wooden pizza peels better for launching than turning?
Yes, that is their role. Thick wooden pizza peels launch raw pies well but are clumsy for turning, so most kitchens switch to thin aluminum peels to rotate and pull in a hot oven.
Is a bigger wooden peel always better?
Not always. An oversized board is harder to steer in a packed oven, so match wooden pizza peels to your most common pie rather than the largest. A 14 by 16 inch blade is a versatile middle size.
Should I use wooden pizza peels with screens?
They pair well. Launch off wooden pizza peels, then set the pie on a screen from pizza screens and pans for airflow, then swap to a thin metal peel to turn and pull.
