Chef Pomodoro Aluminum Metal Pizza Peel with Foldable Wood Handle for Easy Storage, Pizza Spatula, Gourmet Luxury Pizza Paddle for Baking Homemade Pizza Bread (12 inch)

Okay, it has been six (6) years getting around to write this review, plus a bottle of wine tonight. I got other things going on in my life. Saving lives, electing popes, re-homing stray animals, building rocket ships; you know the drill. Finally I says to myself "Self, you need to spread the word to the masses about this peel". I cook pizza. A LOT OF PIZZA. Frozen, Take N Bake, and my homemade pie. I have had many peels to put my pie in the oven, but this piece of pizza equipment is by far THE BEST for accomplishing that chore. It is sturdy. It folds up nice to ft into the cabinet. It will not break, sag, or let your child slide off into the abyss for the animals to forage upon. Buy this peel once and you will not need to do it again. You can get on with your life and not have to worry when you ask "What am I going to use to get that pizza out of the oven, BBQ, or $2k dollar pizza oven?"

I make pizzas a lot. I recently got a pizza stone and needed a way to launch the pizza onto it. This peel has made that process easier.

Bought this for my pizza maker that I use on my grill it is a great fit for my grill and it is the quality item

We use this paddle strictly for removing a pizza or turning it. A wooden peel with cornmeal is used to slide the pizza onto the stone. The wooden peel doesn't work well for us after getting the pizza into the oven. It's just too thick. However, this peel easily slides under the pizza to rotate it or remove it once the bottom of the crust is cooked.My own experience with pizza peels is to use a wooden one for sliding the pizza onto the stone, and then using a metal one to remove the finished product. Once the pizza is in the oven the next one can be assembled on the wooden peel. The metal peel is used to turn the pizza halfway through baking, and then to remove it to a wooden cutting board for slicing.This peel works very well once the bottom of the pizza has set up. No sticking, nice and slick. Because the metal peel is thin it easily slides under the pizza.I use this peel with the knob facing down. As a retired engineer it seems mechanically more sound to use it with the handle support on the bottom of the peel, not the top. But that's just me and it probably doesn't make any difference.I wish the bulge on the handle was on the other side, as it requires more loosening turns of the knob to get the peel to fold past that bulge. Because of this it doesn't fold flat and takes up a bit more space than it should.

This pizza peel works well and good quality. Have not had any issue with sticking. Also, like the fact that the handle turns in to make it easier to store.

This has worked very well for us when making pizza. We appreciate that it can close in half when not in use, which is helpful for storing it in a smaller place. So far, we haven't had any issues with scratching, sticking, or the other common problems with pizza peels.

What a great invention! A pizza peel with a folding handle. Stores easily vertically with cookie sheets, etc. No more stuffing an unwieldy pizza peel on the counter or stuffed in a closet. Really nice product; easy to assemble and use.

We just got an indoor Ninja Pizza Oven. I have a wooden paddle already, but its blunt edge pushed the pizza into the back and I needed to use a wide spatula to get it to the front again. Looking around, the perforated paddles made no sense to me since flour or cornmeal underneath the dough would fall through and make a mess.This pizza paddle is exactly what I needed. It is sturdy enough to not bend and have the hot pizza slide off, and with the handle off it can be handwashed easily.This isn't a luxury item, it is a must have.