Gizmodo: Pizza Oven

Dual Pizza Oven Delivers Cheesy Deliciousness in 90 Seconds

Sean Fallon — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:40:55 EST

Even if Domino's is allowing you to track your pizza, the bottom line is that I'm hungry now (and I would like to avoid tapeworm). For the most impatient among us, this Dual Pizza Oven could have us eating two 12" pizzas in 90 seconds or less.

In order to achieve this feat, the oven heats up to 790 degrees and features roof-mounted 1,440-watt coil heating elements and ceramic pizza stones to ensure thorough, even cooking. The only problem is that the 90-second figure does not take frozen pizzas into account. Still, with that kind of power, it will probably cook a frozen pizza pretty damn fast—and with higher quality than a microwave. Plus, at $249, it doesn't come cheap. [Hammacher via DVICE]

Countertop Pizza Oven

Jason Chen — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:10:12 EDT

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]

Pizza for Dummies: Presto Pizzaz Doesn't Defy the Laws of Physics

Charlie White — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:45:00 EDT

Unless the laws of physics have changed since the last time we checked, the Presto Pizzaz Electric Pizza Oven has got to be the dumbest idea for a kitchen appliance we've seen in a long, long time. This $35 goof rotates a pizza underneath its heating element, and then there's a heating element in the base as well. It's just stupid.

Since heat rises, that heating element underneath the pizza cooker's top section will lose a lot of its heat, and most of the heat coming from the bottom heating element will also be dissipated to the surrounding air. With summer coming up, this is a really dumb way to heat up your kitchen and make everyone miserable. Plus, that pizza sitting on there in the graphic above looks like somebody threw up on it.

Have an oven? You could just use that. Certainly this is a gadget for fools; might as well just set fire to a pile of U.S. currency. – Charlie White

Check out how the company has gamed the Amazon ratings system! [Amazon, via Ubergizmo]

Presto Pizazz Sucks: 10 to 3 Agree [KLTV 7]