What is the difference between a pizza peel and a turning peel?

The pizza peel is used for putting the pizza in and taking the pizza out of the oven. And a pizza turning peel is for quickly turning the pizza in the oven so you do not have to take the pizza out of the oven to turn it.

Can i use the pizza peel to turn the pizza?

It can be possible but because domestic pizza oven are often smaller is size it will be hard to turn a pizza with a normal pizza peel in the oven. The best way to turn the pizza with a normal pizza peel is to take the pizza out of the oven with the peel and turn the pizza with your hand (watch out hot) and quickly putting it back in the oven with the peel. You need to do this at least 3 times depending on the pizza oven.

Advantages of turning peel

The biggest advantage of a turning peel is that you can turn the pizza in the oven so the pizza stays hot and you do not have to manually turn the pizza on the peel with your hands.

Can i see the difference between a pizza peel and turning peel?

Yes you can a turning peel is round and smaller than a pizza peel, check this image below to compare them.

Looking at the dimensions you can say that the pizza peel is almost double as wide and double as deep if you are looking at the surface of the peel, comparing a 12 inch pizza peel to a turning peel. But you also can notice that the turning peel is longer in length overal.