I’ve been interested in a pizza peel for awhile but still haven’t gotten around to picking one up. Maybe the reason is because I don’t have a pizza stone yet!

I saw this wooden pizza peel by Sassafras the other day which is interesting because it’s not aluminum like many others, and plus it looks like the lip of the peel is actually pretty thick. I’m somewhat skeptical about whether or not you’ll be able to lift the actual pizza off with this thicker lip, especially for thinner crust pizzas. I guess the benefits of it being wooden are that it looks more “authentic” having that wood rather than some metal peel.

The peel is 14 inches by 24 inches, and as said before is a hefty 1 inch thick. That’s a big peel. I’ve heard several reviewers say that they treated the peel with food grade mineral oil before using it in order to protect it - I’ll have to keep that in mind in case I ever decide to get one.