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Countertop Pizza Oven

If your life's dream is to cook a pizza in something that only slightly resembles a pizza oven, this Da Gennaro is your ticket to paradise. The oven's small enough to fit onto a counter, but big enough that it takes up a whole lot of your kitchen space. As for how well its programmable cooking time and heat insulation cooks your pizza, that's a question for someone who's eaten a pie made from its loins. [Ariete via Appliancist]

5:10 PM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By Jason Chen
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Kaiser-Machead at 05:31 PM on 09/17/07
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Mmmmmm giant panini sammiches.
techmuse at 05:47 PM on 09/17/07
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Bleh. Chef's Perspective...

Gadgets like this (single taskers) irk me.

They take up too much space, and usually end up in a closet somewhere or a garage sale. Devices like this usually end up getting used a time or two for the novelty, and then when they get dirty they cease to be used.

What these devices sell is a "convenience" concept and that it will take another convenience product, such as a frozen pizza, and elevate it to "Hey, I didn't get this crap out of a box status."

They attempt to convince you that your crappy pizza will taste better if you only have the right equipment.

All you need is a decent $20 Pizza Stone and your home oven. I mean, frozen pizza is frozen pizza. A piece of equipment won't polish a turd. If you use this to make your own pizzas from scratch, then you probably already know enough not to waste your money on a device like this.

I'd give this device maybe like 4 uses before you get bored using it and the thought of cleaning it starts to irritate you.
Sternfan91 at 05:58 PM on 09/17/07
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$$?? i checked the page and nothing came up
jds17j at 06:06 PM on 09/17/07
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I think these are better:

[www.fornobravo.com]
citykids at 06:16 PM on 09/17/07
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"It's not delivery? It's Da Gennaro? WTF were you thinking?"
deusdiabolus at 06:56 PM on 09/17/07
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It sort of looks like it's one level up from an Easy Bake.
Empire at 07:27 PM on 09/17/07
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@techmuse: I was just thinking that my parents could find a home in the attic for one of these, right next to their breadmaker, food dehydrator, and fondue pot.
je-c at 07:36 PM on 09/17/07
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Man, that thing is C-L-A-S-S-Y.

Bravo, fake plastic brick-oven pizza cooker inventors!!!
TVGenius at 08:15 PM on 09/17/07
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Need to hack a chain drive into it so you can get your Quizno's action on...
infmom at 08:17 PM on 09/17/07
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Just wait till you see how it cooks the countertop, too. Mmmmmm, scorched Formica.
Sternfan91 at 08:32 PM on 09/17/07
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@TVGenius: agreed :)
FubarGuy at 09:16 PM on 09/17/07
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@techmuse: Couldn't agree more! Homemade pizza on a stone will change your life forever.
ejz at 08:18 AM on 09/18/07
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Don't waste money buying those pre-packaged pizza stones; just go to Lowe's and get unglazed quarry tile. If they don't have the big size, just buy a box of the the 6x6 and line the oven rack. Leave it in there full time - the heat retention isn't just good for pizza. At about .60 cents each it doesn't hurt as much when one gets cracked.