"Giusi" > wrote in message
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> "JoeSpareBedroom" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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>> Stopped at Bed Bath & Beyond yesterday to get a pizza peel, and the one
>> they had in stock was about as thick as two pencils, with a business end
>> that didn't seem tapered enough to slide easily under a pizza. It was
>> also made of some kind of wood that wasn't much heavier than balsa.
>> Seemed like it end up gouged all to hell by the pizza cutter. Made in
>> China, of course.
>>
>> I haven't had time to look elsewhere yet. If you've got one, how thick is
>> it, and is the leading edge blunt, sharp, or what?
>
> Mine is metal with a wooden handle. I still wouldn't be cutting pizza on
> it. That's not what they are for. Slip it in, slide the pizzo onto the
> oven floor, slip it under and slide the pizza out and onto the surface
> where it gets cut or not.
>


Thanks.

The cutting is the next issue. Gotta get a cutting board as big as my pizza
stone. I used the heavy stone for the first time last night. The pizza crust
was so delicious, we went into some sort of trance state. :-) This is going
to become a habit around here.