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We’ve been craving for a pizza for some time now so we decided to make a pizza peel so that we could start making our own pizza. In fact, instead of just making one peel we made six of them!<\/p>\n

Wikipedia<\/a> describes a peel as “a shovel-like tool used by bakers to slide loaves of bread, pizzas, pastries, and other baked goods into and out of an oven. It is usually made of wood, with a flat carrying surface (like a shovel’s blade) for holding the baked good and a handle extending from one side of that surface”. <\/p>\n

The idea is that the item to be baked can be easily transferred to the oven and slid off right on to the hot baking surface, in my case this would be a ceramic baking stone. Baking this way gives a better crust to the baked item, therefore more flavourful.<\/p>\n

We chose to make six peels only because the wood that we were starting with was approximately 1.5 inches thick. By resawing this into the required 3\/8 inch thick pieces gave us enough wood for six peels, so we thought why not?<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in making your own here’s how to make a pizza peel:<\/p>\n

Here’s the simple plan that we made. The sizes were based on the size of our baking stone so you might have to adjust them according to your specifics.<\/p>\n

Pizza Peel Plans<\/div>\n

You will need 2 pieces of Maple 5 1\/2 inches wide X 14 inches long X 3\/8 inches thick and 1 piece 2 inches wide X 20 inches long X 3\/8 inches thick.<\/p>\n

Plans for pizza peel<\/div>\n

Then glue and clamp it and let dry:<\/p>\n

how to make a pizza peel<\/div>\n

Once dry you’ll have something like this:<\/p>\n

bread peel<\/div>\n

Then plane this down to around 5\/16th – 1\/4 inch:<\/p>\n

Pizza paddle<\/div>\n

Next, make the handle addition. For these we used contrasting colored wood like Padauk, Walnut and Jatoba. The addition must be 2 inches wide X 6 1\/4 inches long and 3\/4 inches thick:<\/p>\n

make pizza<\/div>\n

Then glue it to the handle of the peel and let dry. We chose to make the handles this way so that it would keep the peel flat on your counter while adding a contrasting focal point.<\/p>\n

peel for bread<\/div>\n

Next, we made a pattern to mark the shape that we wanted for the peel and handle:<\/p>\n

pizza baking stone<\/div>\n

After bandsawing the peel to shape we took our grinder and shaped the handle:<\/p>\n

Bake a pizza on a peel<\/div>\n

And then we shaped the front edge of the peel with a slope on the belt sander:<\/p>\n

pizza oven peel<\/div>\n

After sanding the peel we gave it a couple of coats of mineral oil. Here’s how ours came out:<\/p>\n

With Paudauk handles:<\/p>\n

Padauk Pizza Peel<\/div>\n
Pizza Peel with Padauk<\/div>\n

With Walnut handles:<\/p>\n

Walnut Pizza Peel<\/div>\n
Pizza Peel With Walnut<\/div>\n

With Jatoba handles:<\/p>\n

Jatoba Pizza Peel<\/div>\n
Pizza Peel with Jatoba<\/div>\n

So now you’re probably saying, “Yeah, they look pretty but do they work”. Well, here’s the before:<\/p>\n

Wooden Pizza Peel<\/div>\n

And here’s the after:<\/p>\n

Wooden Pizza Paddle<\/div>\n

Oops, here’s the after:<\/p>\n

Peel Paddle<\/div>\n

As you can see, it works very well. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

One note, there are a few tricks to getting the pizza off the peel and onto your baking surface easily. It starts by having all your toppings ready so that the dough doesn’t spend a lot of time on the peel where it can stick, then use ample flour and cornmeal on the peel and finally, develop a ‘quick pull’ action to get the pizza off.<\/p>\n

Obviously this was a fun project with great rewards! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Back to the shop…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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