Wooden Pizza Peels
A wooden pizza peel is the most authentic type of peel, having been used in Italy for centuries.
The key to its popularity is because many types of wood have a natural non-stick quality. This makes a wood pizza peel very effective at dealing with fresh pizza dough. With a light dusting of flour or cornmeal on the peel surface you will have no problem sliding your pizza onto a hot pizza stone or into a pizza oven.
Wooden pizza peels can be made of many types of wood including bamboo, acacia, birch, cherry and ash. A wooden pizza peel is hard wearing and will perform for years providing you take appropriate care of it. This means avoiding getting your peel too wet to prevent warping and cracking, and never using it to cut pizza on as this can inhibit its non-stick properties.
Wood pizza peels tend to be thicker than a metal pizza peel or Epicurean pizza peel, however most have bevelled edges to help slide under a cooked pizza.
A pizza peel made from wood is a great choice for anyone looking for a hard-wearing, all purpose pizza peel.
Our Recommended Wooden Pizza Peels:
Best Wooden Pizza Peel – Ironwood Gourmet Acacia Wood Pizza Peel
The Ironwood Gourmet Acacia Wood Pizza Peel gets our recommendation as it is not only very functional it is also arguably the best looking wood pizza peel.
Acacia is an environmentally friendly, durable and beautiful hardwood and the colours in this board can range from chocolate brown to deep gold. The wooden surface of this peel is very smooth and with a light dusting, pizza slides off with no fuss. Because of its beautiful finish, this pizza peel can also be used as a serving board. This pizza peel will last you a lifetime and represents very good value.
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Best Budget Wooden Pizza Peel – Norpro 5683 Bamboo Pizza Paddle
Bamboo is a very strong material and consequently this pizza peel is very thin without losing the rigidity needed to shift a large pizza. A bevelled edge also helps this peel to slide effortlessly under your pizza. This bamboo pizza peel is a great budget option. The surface of the Norpro 5683 Bamboo Pizza Paddle is an attractive bamboo grain.
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