A pizza peel is a shovel-like device utilized by bakers to slide loaves of bread, pizzas, pastries, and other baked products into and from an oven. It is usually made from wood, with a flat bring surface area (like a shovel's blade) for holding the baked great and a handle extending from one side of that surface area. Additionally, the bring surface area may be made from sheet metal, which is attached to a wooden handle. The word probably originates from the French pelle, which explains both a peel and a shovel. There are peels of numerous sizes, with the length of the handle fit to the depth of the oven, and the size of the bring surface area fit to the size of the food it is implied to carry (for instance, a little bigger than the diameter of a pizza).
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Transfer pizzas, delicate breads, pastries, into an oven where transferring them directly by hand could deform their delicate structure
Peels allow food to be placed further back in an oven than could normally be reached by the baker