Win a Super Peel in the Pizza Wreck Contest!
Pizzas on the floor, or on the oven door?? Sliding off half your stone or looking more like a “road toad” than a pizza?? Cheese and toppings everywhere?? Smoke alarm screaming?? Well, let’s put a stop to all of this insanity, now!!
Whether you have wanted one for years, or are just learning about the Super Peel for the first time now, here’s your chance to get one at a price not seen since the beginning of the Stone Age – We’re talking the Baking Stone Age, of course. The price – Free!!
What better way to celebrate Pie (pi) Day, March 14th (3.14) than to give away a couple of these extraordinary tools!? We will be awarding a Cherry Super Peel Gift Set to the winner, and to the runner-up one of our Ash Super Peels (not actually made from recycled baseball bats, as recently suggested in Mother Earth News) – now that is just plain silly!!
To enter for your chance to win, all you need to do is SHOW US YOUR PIZZA WRECKS!! Post your best photo of your worst pizza making moments onto the Super Peel Facebook Fan Page. We are looking for your best “slices of humor”, “pies of disaster”, stone cold painful pizza dumps or “floor pies” that never even made it to the oven. Entries will not be judged on whether they appear to be real or merely contrived. So, the wackier the better! Of course, truth is often stranger than fiction.
What we want to see are the best shots of pizza making mishaps and disasters, things that might have made it to the plate if only Super Peel could have been there. While Super Peel can’t necessarily rescue a pie that has already fallen off the deep end, he can avert most Pizza Wrecks before they ever even happen!
So, make it, take it, and bake it, or simply fake it. We don’t really care. Just post a photo of the spoils. If you are somehow inspired to leap from a 10 meter platform and place your pizza on a rafted pizza stone, that’s just fine and we would love to see it. Just please keep it safe. And, we won’t be coming out to clean your oven (or swimming pool), floor, etc.
Selections will be made and announced on National Pie Day – March 14, 2012, which appropriately falls during the International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas. And, the decision may even be broadcast from the Pizza Expo floor.
To be considered, post your photo on the Super Peel Facebook Fan Page prior to midnight March 12, 2012. Only one entry per email address. Winners will be selected by an impartial panel of judges, and their decisions will be final. In the event of ties, random selection(s) will be made to choose the winner(s). By submitting your entry, your agree to allow Super Peel, EXOProducts, Inc. to freely use it at our sole discretion and in any and all manners which we may choose. We will not publish or share any personal information submitted, other than posting photos/winners with notation of the entrant as “first name, last initial, city and state”, only.
Let the games begin!
First Prize:
Limited Edition Gift Set of our standard Super Peel in beautiful Black Cherry. Smooth sanded and hand sealed with food safe cutting board oil. 100% Made in the USA! This Gift Set includes an extra Cloth Belt and one of our Printed Keeper Bag. SHIPPING INCLUDED!
Second Prize:
The Ash Super Peel Made from the wood of baseball bats! This is a White Ash version of our standard Super Peel. Same quality as our maple peel, just offering a different wood choice/look. These peels are manufactured at a community workshop located in Upstate NY, an amazing facility which we feel extremely fortunate to be working with. We are so pleased to have the Super Peel providing interesting and rewarding work for their consumers. SHIPPING INCLUDED!
Super Peel – Loading Mini Pizzas
Easy pizza making – sliding many mini pizzas onto stone all at once!
How To Bake the Deepest Dish Pizza Ever! on Baking Stone
Deep Dish Pizza on Baking Stone
In this recipe, a deep dish pizza is prepared inside a bottomless springform pan or baking ring and the Super Peel is used to place it directly onto a preheated baking stone, where it is baked to a golden perfection.
Equipment Required: Springform pan (10” – 11”) or same sized baking ring
Super Peel
Dough – Makes 2 Pizzas
2 C. Warm water
1 T. Sugar
1 T. Active dry yeast
1 T. Salt
5½-
6½ C. 50:50 blend of King Arthur all purpose unbleached white and whole wheat flours
2 T. Olive oil
Filling – Enough for two pizzas
6 C. Grated mozzarella
1 Lb. Bulk Italian Sausage
1 Large sweet onion
3 Green peppers
2 28 oz cans whole peeled tomatoes – hand crushed and well drained.
1 C. Parmesan – grated
1 T. Oregano
1½ t. Basil
½ t. Salt
¼ t. Black pepper
1 T. Olive oil
About 2 hours before needed:
In large bowl, dissolve into 2 cups warm water: sugar, yeast, salt. Mix in olive oil. Gradually add flour, blending with large spoon.
Turn dough out onto a floured surface and knead until smooth and springy. Oil a large bowl, and place dough in it. Cover and let rise until doubled in bulk (1 to 2 hours).
Blend tomatoes, salt, pepper, oregano, basil and 1 T. olive oil. Set aside.
In large skillet, cook sausage. Drain well and set aside.
Cut onion and peppers into medium sized pieces and cook in uncovered fry pan until soft. Drain any free liquid and set aside.
Preheat oven and baking stone to 450 F for at least 40 minutes before baking.
Punch down dough, divide into 2 pieces. Form into flattened balls and cover with plastic wrap.
Place dough into a bottomless springform pan ring or baking ring on unfloured surface. Spread dough across bottom and at least half way up inside wall of ring. If dough slumps down sides, simply press it up as fillings are added.
Layer on each dough, in this order: 2 C. mozzarella, ½ of onions and peppers, ½ of sausage ,and finally ½ of tomato mixture. Fillings should be just about even with top of dough.
Sprinkle with ½ C. parmesan, 1 C. mozzarella, and additional oregano if desired.
Slide well floured Super Peel under assembled pizza and ring and use Super Peel to place assembled pizza and ring onto preheated stone. Leave ring in place during baking.
Bake for approximately 20 minutes, until golden brown.
Remove pizza from oven and onto cooling rack. Remove ring and allow to cool 5-10 minutes before cutting.
Copyright EXOProducts, Inc. 2003
Super Peel in the News
Mother of Invention
For anyone, probably a lot of you, who are not really into bread baking yet, questions often arise over the where’s and why’s of the Super Peel – where did it come from in the first place and why would I want it? Well it is all a very long story, full of twists and turns and fits and starts! I actually had always been best known around my work place as “The Pie Man”, mostly the desert type rather than Pizza Pies! And, I had only dabbled in bread baking – always in a pan, of course! And, pizzas were also always done on a cookie sheet or pizza pan. So along came this pizza stone thing, the bastard gift from my loving daughter Jennifer. She had no idea what she had started by cursing me with this thing!!! After a fast series of several Pizza Wrecks, I gave up on the whole “pizza sliding” thing we were off on a mission to improve on the standard pizza peel, and of course save the world!
First thoughts, from my pie baking prowesses, were to somehow incorporate a floured pastry cloth to prevent sticking, and to somehow make the whole operation controlable. Not an easy task for a 9 Y.O. and her pie baker dad.
But we persevered (can’t ever spell that word)………Finally, after months of playing around and over-engineering the heck out of the concept, the first really functional prototype of what was to become the Super Peel was born (see pic at the top of this post) – quite simply a piece of a ”door skin” and some strip bent birch glued up for a handle – it worked great! We had just invented something so profoundly new that it would surely revolutionize every kitchen in America!
Well not so fast! Research on “what else is out there”, referred to as ”Prior Art” in invention community jargon, first turned up a little diddy tucked away in the back of a bread baking book – The Italian Baker, by Carol Field. She tells of this amazing “strip of cloth tool” that they used to load their ovens in the “Old Country”, and then goes on to bemoan the fact that there was nothing like it for use in the home kitchen. She humorously relates it to those old style cloth towel rollers that used to ubiquitously adorn public restrooms – well, maybe you need to be near my age to remember these, but anyway…… Wow! Were we onto something big, or was our “brain child” already out there in use – OH, NO!! the laughing Patent Gods would surely look down on our work with much dismissal and disgust.
From there we soon became familiar with The Dreaded Oven Loader!!! Well, it was starting to look less and less like we were going to save the baking world, and alot more like we had just reinvented “TupperWare”!!! However, thanks to the support and reassurances of Chuck Taylor, our much beloved Patent Attorney, we were not swayed and eventually we received the patent for the Super Peel device. Sadly, Chuck passed away a few years back, and we sorely miss him. While he was involved in a lot of more high tech things, the success of the lowly Super Peel owes much to him for all of his technical excellence, help and support. We will never forget him.
So, as it stacks up, the Super Peel is actually based on a few centuries old and very traditional “technologies” for bread baking and pie and pastry making, just repackaged in useful new form, which now also helps with pizza making within the home kitchen.
The Super Peel – Steeped in baking tradition, and super fun and easy to use!
How To Bake Homemade Gluten-Free Pizza
Gary Casper president of EXO products and inventor of the Super Peel demonstrates how to make a delicious gluten-free pizza. Gary is using a recipe from Ginger Lemon Girl’s blog.
Try this recipe yourself and let me know how you like this. Post your video response if possible.
The “Super Peel” is not the only peel we manufacture. EXO also makes two extremely nice (Super) standard peels. These peels come in two sizes (14” and 16”), and are made of native cherry hardwood, harvested from the upper Midwest. The wide seasonal weather swings common to this area of the country produce spectacular color and grain. Both sizes come fully tapered for a nice weight and balance, and have a very thin low angle tip for easily slipping under your pizzas and breads. Both are available at www.superpeel.com, and the 14” size is now available on amazon at a great price, and is even eligible or free Super Saver shipping!! The 16” model should also be available at amazon in about a week. Yup, these peels do retail at a few dollars more than their imported rivals, but they are 100% made in the USA from domestic cherry, and they are superior to the import rivals by nature of their larger size and fully tapered design. Both make great gift items and are gorgeous hang-on-the-wall kitchen accents!!
Hot News Flash!
EXO’s Solid Cherry Pizza Peels were recently selected for use in a photo shoot with a major national pizza chain. We can’t disclose more details right now, but will certainly share info and pictures when we can.
Super Peels in Display for Wakefern Artisan Bread in White Plains
Super Peel Display, a set on Flickr.
Wakefern White Plains Artesan Bread Featuring Super Peels in bakery display. These beautiful wood crafted Super Peels are the perfect display items to show off artisan bread and baked goods.
EXO Super Peel Pizza Peel in Solid White Ash – 100% Made in USA – Cook’s Illustrated Recommended Product Feature
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We LOL’d after reading this. What’s your favorite word or phrase in this review? Enjoy!
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Super Peel!
After a 31 year hiatus, Super Peel Owner, Gary Casper, reclaims the skies at the Susquehanna Flight Park – July 23, 2011. “Hopefully, we can soon begin our planned 24/7 On Call In-Flight Rescue Service to save you from your “Pizza Wrecks” before they even happen!!!!”
