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Amazon.com Review
This 1,235-watt countertop oven makes pizza in about half the time required by a conventional oven. You don't need to preheat it--it begins rotating and baking the moment you plug it in. There are independently controlled top and bottom heating elements, so all types (frozen or fresh) and sizes (7 to 12 inches) of pizza can be custom baked. With a rising-crust pizza, for example, you should run the lower heating element for 10-12 minutes before turning on the top element. For a crisper crust, bake the pizza with both heating elements, then finish it off with a few minutes of bottom-only heating. For extra cooking time on your toppings, leave the top element on a little longer. A timer with automatic shutoff lets you set cooking times precisely, and a cooking-time guide for various pizza types is printed on the pizza maker. For safety, the appliance shuts off automatically if it overheats. With the 13-1/4-inch-diameter baking pan in place, the pizza maker is 13-1/4 inches wide, 9-1/2 inches high, and 17-1/2 inches deep. (The baking pan can be removed for more compact storage.) It carries a two-year warranty against defects. --Fred Brack
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The fast and easy way to bake fresh or frozen pizza. Great for frozen, homemade, take-and-bake, or deli pizza. The easy way to prepare chicken nuggets, quesadillas, fish fillets, even grilled sandwiches. Bakes egg rolls, pizza rolls, jalapeno poppers, cheese bread and more...even cookies and cinnamon rolls.
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271 of 284 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Mastery of the Cheapie Pizza!,
By Courtland J. Carpenter (Fort Wayne, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Presto 03430 Pizzazz Pizza Oven (Kitchen)
First of all it's not perfect. The non-stick coating is thin on the pan, and can get scratched off easy. Plus, there's no easy way to clean off the brown, spots you get from baking. All that aside, this is a great device if you like homemade, and frozen varieties of pizza. I used to try all kinds of tricks to get a frozen pizza to taste good. I'd microwave them partially first, I'd bake them directly on the oven rack; I'd try greasing the pan, or not greasing it. I had some success with these techniques, but it was a lot of work. This oven does the job, and gets the pizza cooked the way you want it. An easy flip switch on the top, can turn the heat on both sides, just the top, or just the bottom. You control the crispness, and the degree of browning on your pizza. This oven is also great for baking those commercial, "take and bake" pizzas, from shops like Pappa Murphy's. Further, its better for reheating leftover pizzeria pizza than your microwave. What more can you want? I wanted just one thing, a 14" model. While most frozen pizza is 12" or smaller, you cannot heat one any larger. One final caution, rising crust pizzas will sometimes bubble, or rise into the top-heating element. It's a good idea to stay in the general area while the pizza is cooking, or it can potentially start a fire.
100 of 106 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Almost Idiot Proof. Almost.,
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This review is from: Presto 03430 Pizzazz Pizza Oven (Kitchen)
My in-laws gave us one of these as a gift. I thought it was a joke. Then we used it. The Pizzazz consistently cooks frozen pizzas well. The nonstick disk is simple to clean. I don't understand how anyone would scratch it, unless he's using steel wool or something to clean it. And that is hardly necessary: it washes clean with a bit of soap and water (or even just a clean towel). Even with rising crust pizzas, we have never had the food come anywhere near the heating element. My only complaint is that you cannot accelerate the timer. You can adjust it to add time, but once it's set, you have to wait for it to run down. This is a minor inconvenience, though I would like to be able to turn off the heating elements when the pizza is done rather than take the pizza off the disk and wait for the "ding" at the end of the cooking cycle. (You could unplug the machine, but the residual heat from the elements might cook the disk, which obviously stops rotating when you unplug the machine. The elements stay hot for a little while after the cycle ends.) All in all, this is a surprisingly effective product.
38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
good gadget - mixed results - depends on the pizza,
By Red, White, and Blue "Coffee Man" (Inland Empire, Ca) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Presto 03430 Pizzazz Pizza Oven (Kitchen)
I was pretty excited to get this item. I never had any success with my oven and frozen pizza. I never could get the middle cooked and many reviews said the Pizzazz would do this.
Pros: - Creates a crisp bottom crust - Center of pizza and toppings cook better than with an oven - Doesn't heat up the house - Cleanup is a breeze Cons: - The outside crust is more breadlike (could be a pro for some) - Turntable on mine seems slanted and crooked - Doesn't perform miracles. Some reviewers imply that the Pizzazz transforms frozen pizza into real pizza. It improves frozen pizza, but you won't forget that you're eating frozen pizza. - Rising dough frozen pizza works, but the dough itself doesn't seem to bake fully. It tends to taste doughy even when the bottom and top are done. - 12" is too small considering the better tasting 16" fresh dough pizzas available now I like this gadget, but I can't give it five stars. Presto created a pretty cool kitchen appliance here, but I think they could improve it. They should make a XL 16" model that would accomodate "Costco" take and bake. I think the heating elements could be designed better to improve coverage as well. As far as frozen pizza goes, Freschetta baked better than Di Giorno for me. Tombstone tasted like Tombstone. Frozen is what it is. There's UNO in my local deli case and I plan on trying that. I think the Pizzazz is worth it overall. I don't regret the purchase in any way, and I don't use my oven for pizza anymore.
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