How To Use a Pizza Peel

Using Pizza Peels

Assemble your pizzas on a short wood pizza peel, then slide them onto the metal placing peel to set them in the oven. This technique minimizes the chance that you will ruin a pizza when it sticks to the counter.


Make sure your placing peel is large enough to hold your pizza. The placing peel should be rectangular, as you will use the flat front edge to slide under the assembled made pizzas.

Flour is the Italian tradition. Rice flour is also good at keeping pizzas from sticking to the peel.

You will need a round metal peel to turn it, and pull it out. The small round size also works well for removing your pizza.