KettlePizza Stone and Peel Kit

When it comes to pizza, there simply aren’t enough superlatives to describe these glorious molten discs of Italian delight. They can appeal to every taste and satisfy every appetite. From simple crisp crusts supporting gooey cushions of Mozzarella, sweet tomatoes and aromatic basil, to thick, filling platforms for spicy meats, rich cheeses and delicious vegetables, there is a pizza for everyone. As appetising as they can be in a restaurant or from a take-away, they are never better than when they are made by hand and served piping hot from your own oven. The true pizza connoisseur will want to invest in some of the appropriate kit.

Callow Retail, barbecue and garden specialists, currently stock the KettlePizza Wooden Pizza Peel and Cordierite Stone kit. With its American design and manufacture, the kit represents the ideal launching point for your burgeoning career as pizza maker.

A pizza peel is essentially a sort of culinary shovel that allows you to move delicate pastries, pizzas and bread deep into an oven without deforming them or burning your hands. The KettlePizza peel is constructed from hard-wearing, durable wood and has several advantages over its metal competitors, including its attractive appearance and the fact that pizza dough is less likely to adhere to its surface. Likewise, wood doesn't conduct heat quite as dramatically as metal, and you are less likely to burn your hands when moving it in and out of a very hot oven.

The peel is accompanied by a practical and robust 15-inch Cordierite pizza stone. Before baking a pizza, the cook places the stone in an oven, where it absorbs and retains heat for lengthy periods of time. A pizza base placed on the hot stone will bake uniformly. The stone will also absorb moisture from the dough, producing a dry, crisp end product. Cordierite can withstand extremely high temperatures, making it ideal for pizza cookery. It is highly resistant to thermal shock

The kit is ideal for use in the KettlePizza oven and is also entirely suitable for use in standard kitchen ovens and on barbecues. Practical and neat for convenient storage between uses, this would not only make an excellent investment for the home pizza cook but also a useful birthday or wedding gift.