JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>
> 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?

They are normally made of light weight wood. My peel tapers along it's
entire length somewhat and then more significantly at the front edge. It
starts at about 3/4" at the handle and tapers to about 1/2" near the
front before the final taper to about 1/8" in the last 3/4".

You *DO NOT* cut a pizza on the peel! A peel is a transfer device, just
a big spatula really and you don't cut stuff on a spatula either. The
peel is used to transfer the uncooked pizza into the oven and remove it
from the oven once cooked, that's all. Once you remove the cooked pizza
you put it on a platter or disk of some type which is where you do the
cutting.