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"Foldable" and "dismantlable" are not synonyms
This is a large, flat sheet of metal with a handle. If you need to manipulate a pizza, it's just as good a tool for that as any other large, flat sheet of metal with a handle.
However, the "folding" aspect of this product is absolutely terrible. The process for folding it as as follows:
1. Turn the large, clumsy thumbscrew while being quietly annoyed that it's so large that there isn't enough clearance between peel and the screw to have your fingers on it while turning it, so you need to turn it 1/4 turn at a time.
2. Realize that turning the large, clumsy thumbscrew isn't actually doing anything, because the bolt that it's threaded onto is also turning. You can thank Frank down in product design for that one. He saved them $0.002 per unit sold by eliminating a carriage bolt from the specification. Good job, Frank. Quality work.
3. Wedge your thumb onto the bolt head to keep it from turning while manipulating the large, clumsy thumb screw 1/4 turn at a time until the bolt loosens enough to allow the rabbet in the handle to clear the metal of the peel. Almost... almost... almost... Oops! You turned it 1/8 of a turn too far, and the bolt ran out of thread, and the the whole thing just came apart and crashed to the floor.
4. Pick the pieces up and reassemble them with the handle folded back over the peel. Manipulate the large, clumsy thumbscrew while wondering if an actual Earth human ever tried to use this thing. Perhaps it's intended for telekinetic users, but that's not mentioned anywhere in the documentation.
5. Put the folded peel into the cupboard. Well, to be fair, they do say "easy storage", and that was pretty easy. The ease was more of a function of my cabinet hardware than anything inherent in the peel, though, so I'm not sure that they can take credit for that.
In short, while the Chef Pomodoro Aluminum Metal Pizza Peel is not complete garbage, it's certainly suboptimal. It's not bad enough to return, but I'll be a little annoyed every time I use it, for the rest of my natural life.
I'd like to thank Chef Pomodoro for helpfully sending me an unsolicited, needy, attention-seeking email asking for me to validate their corporate insecurities with a review. Had I not received that message, I probably would not have bothered to write this review. Good job, guys!
October 2018 · Home and Kitchen · verified purchase