Cerutti Inox Tulip Square Perforated Pizza Peel

A launching peel for putting raw pizza into the oven. The square blade holds more dough than a round blade of the same width, because the corners carry what a curve cuts away, and the perforations let loose flour drop away before it burns onto the stone. Anodised aluminium with Cerutti's red handle, 33cm to 41cm blades with handles from 30cm to 150cm. Made in Italy.

What This Peel Offers

• Square blade: carries more dough than a round blade of the same width, which helps with wet, sticky dough or a base that runs big or lands slightly uneven
• Perforated blade: loose flour and semolina drop through before they can burn onto the stone, and the base releases from the blade instead of sticking, which matters most with a wet dough
• Anodised aluminium: a hardened surface that resists scratches and corrosion, and stays lighter in the hand than stainless steel across a long session
• Riveted handle, so it doesn't work loose with use
• Food-safe to MOCA, manufactured to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001

Our guide to perforated pizza peels covers the perforations in more detail.

Blade Sizes

The blade wants to be slightly bigger than the pizza it carries, so the base sits fully supported with a little margin around it.

• 33cm handles pizzas up to 12 inches, which covers most home pizza ovens
• 36cm handles pizzas up to 14 inches
• 41cm handles pizzas up to 16 inches, for large wood-fired ovens and professional use

Blade width matters as much as pizza size: worth checking against the opening of the oven before ordering, since even the right blade for the pizza can be too wide for a compact oven's mouth. The 33cm here does not fit the ZiiPa Piana, and a 33cm blade is also too wide for a Gozney Roccbox or Arc Lite; see the FAQs below for oven-by-oven fit.

Handle Lengths

Handle length is decided by the oven rather than the pizza.

• 30cm suits small countertop ovens including the Ooni Koda 12 and Volt 12
• 60cm suits bigger garden ovens
• 120cm suits full-size wood-fired ovens, where the fire sits next to the pizza
• 150cm suits commercial pizza ovens, and is the longest handle Cerutti make for a launching peel

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Where the Tulip Sits in the Range

The Smart peel below it does the same job for less, though the surface is untreated and marks with age. The Tough peel above it is hard anodised, a much thicker surface layer made for a blade taking knocks every day in a pizzeria. The Tulip sits in the middle with the widest choice of sizes and a finish that lasts years of weekend use.

Browse the Cerutti Inox Range

See all Cerutti Inox pizza peels. This peel puts the pizza in; a pizza turning peel turns it once it is cooking, and a brass oven brush keeps the stone clear between pizzas.