These items support pizza making and serving, and include dough boxes, rolling pins, dockers, pans, perforated disks or screens, racks, cutters, and knives.

Dough boxes are most often made of rigid polycarbonate with radius corners and rounded edges.  Dough dockers have a 1 ¾”-diameter plastic barrel “I” in-which stainless-steel pins for even heat conductivity are embedded.  All-plastic dockers also are available.  Bubble poppers can be all-aluminum poles with one curved end and one pointed end or a stainless-steel rod on a wooden handle.  Rolling pins frequently have a polished aluminum barrel, wood handles and an interior plated steel rod with stainless-steel threaded acorn nuts on the ends.

Deep-dish pans, made of 14-to 18-gauge aluminum or black, have either straight sides for stacking or are somewhat angled and can be nested, depending on the final pizza shape desired.  Aluminum separator plates allow operators to stack deep-dish pizzas for proofing.  Pizza operators that bake in conveyor ovens can choose between solid 14-to 18-gauge aluminum pizza trays or perforated pizza dishes on which to place their sheeted dough.  Generally, operators should use pizza pans to display and serve pizza, while pizza screens, which can withstand higher temperatures, are optimal for cooking the product.  Pizza screens are round discs with a wire mesh that allows heat to rise and cook the pizza evenly through the screen.

To aid in safe removal of hot pans, 8” tempered-steel pan grippers can be used to grasp shallow pans.  For pizzas baked directly on oven hearths, peels made of wood or aluminum are used.  Pizza wheel blades are made of either stainless of high-carbon steel, with wood, polypropylene or one-piece molded aluminum handles.  Some models allow round blades to be replaced.  A rocker-type knife has a high-carbon or stainless-steel blade with a rounded edge; sealed polypropylene handles help to ensure safe handling; or operators can choose a “T-handle” rocker knife made from a single piece of stainless steel on which the top edge folds to form a gripping surface.

Pizza supplies keep prep and portioning processes organized and, with the addition of a makeup table, ensure staff to make and bake pizzas quickly to order in a variety of sizes.

Since many different types of items perform the same task in the preparation and production of pizza, operators should tailor their pizza equipment and pizza supply selections to the style and volume of their business.

Many items are dish-washer safe, but pizza pans and screens should be hand-washed and scrubbed in hot water.