GI.Metal Azzurro pizza peel melted in the oven

[cyberdog]

We have a common pizza oven in our housing association and some idiot got the oven too hot, a pizza caught fire and they tried to remove it with the peel.. 

The stupidity of some people baffles me.  Guess they panicked or something

[Yael]

Happened to me once with a dirty pizza screen, I wanted to "wash" it over the flames 
Then I understood aluminum doesn't like when it's too hot.

[Pizza_Not_War]

Why would you expect that the average person would know the melting point of Aluminum? Also the time to remove a pizza from the oven shouldn't cause that damage, looks like it was left sitting in a hot oven.

[TXCraig1]

We have a common pizza oven in our housing association and some idiot got the oven too hot, a pizza caught fire and they tried to remove it with the peel.. 

Did you see it happen? If not, I'm not buying the story. Melting the peel isn't something that would happen all that quickly even at temps north of 1,000F - and particularly not if there was a pizza or partial pizza sitting on top of the peel. For that matter, intact pies don't catch fire.

Here is what I'd bet really happened - someone trashed a launch, the dough ripped or stuck to the peel, and some of the toppings landed on the deck and caught fire. They then scooped up the burning shambles with the peel. That made a big sticky burnt mess on the peel which they stuck back in the oven in an attempt to burn it off in the fire. That's when the peel melted. That's what I see when I look at the remnants of the peel.

[Bill/CDMX]

I'm just impressed that a housing association has a common pizza oven! And they are using an Azzuro peel! What other amenities might they have? A Caja China for pig roasts? A vertical spit for making al pastor? A herd of water buffalo?

[Timpanogos Slim]

Did you see it happen? If not, I'm not buying the story. Melting the peel isn't something that would happen all that quickly even at temps north of 1,000F - and particularly not if there was a pizza or partial pizza sitting on top of the peel. For that matter, intact pies don't catch fire.

Here is what I'd bet really happened - someone trashed a launch, the dough ripped or stuck to the peel, and some of the toppings landed on the deck and caught fire. They then scooped up the burning shambles with the peel. That made a big sticky burnt mess on the peel which they stuck back in the oven in an attempt to burn it off in the fire. That's when the peel melted. That's what I see when I look at the remnants of the peel.

Agreed. Melting point of aluminum is 1221f. That's the temperature when it *starts to melt.

They slid this peel under the coals and left it there.

[sarahm]

We have a common pizza oven in our housing association and some idiot got the oven too hot, a pizza caught fire and they tried to remove it with the peel.. 

The stupidity of some people baffles me.

Hmm ... HOA board votes to buy an oven that gets hot enough to melt aluminum and makes it available for community members to use without supervision. Clearly, he's not the only, nor the biggest, idiot in the community.

[mosabrina]

There are some housing associations here with full on waterparks. And the HOA fees are under $50 per month