rich peoples suuuuure is funny!

510DustMite

Or...you could just order pizza. All that's required for that is a phone. And I believe (but don't quote me on this) that it can be used to order other things too. Like, Chinese food. Or bears.

Chromeo

But it looks pretty. I want a waffle attachment, though....

trendspotter

@bosskev:
Imagine an American-style meat pie and an Argentinian-style empanada got drunk one night together in Cornwall and woke up the next morning in bed.

The resulting child is a pasty.

DisposableInterloper

My, aren't we cool dismissing a product none us have even seen let alone tested?

"what's wrong with a regular oven?", you ask. It doesn't get anywhere near hot enough to make really good pizza crust, that's what. So most recipes for homemade pizza "adjust" the dough recipe to accommodate the lower temperatures, but it still won't taste anywhere as good. If you think a regular oven "can cook pizzas perfectly well" then, IMO, you are in the same position as somebody who thinks instant coffee is good enough commenting on espresso makers.

*IF* this thing can come closer to authentic pizza at reasonable cost, I'm willing to wait and, oh, call me crazy, see how well it works before passing judgment.

theczardictates

Actually, unless it's a really nice oven that can get really really hot, and you happen to have a quality baking stone and/or a cast iron deep-dish pizza pan, then a regular oven cannot make pizza perfectly well. Hell, it can't make anything even resembling real pizza.

If this pizza machine is all it's cracked up to be, you could also make pitas, naan, and focaccia on it. Looking at those beautifully charred edges on that pizza in the picture, I'm pretty sure this pizza oven would work just fine if it's anything like advertised.

In other words, I totally want this.

DisposableInterloper

Wow, this is even better than the quesadilla maker I got last Christmas.

ripfire

@Curves: To go with their breadmaker -- it's got three speeds.

GeekyNerdGuy

@bosskev: Edible pasties -- I think those are called crepes.

GeekyNerdGuy

Direct market to the clearance bin. Something you buy as a last minute gift for someone who already has everything else.

Curves

It depends. If that is actually a compact, superheating, scorching pizza-stone device that can cook a Neapolitan style thin crust pizza at the required incredibly hot temperatures only reached by fire burning brick ovens that our crappy home ovens could never hope to reach, then its a huge deal.

But its probably just a reconfigured George Foreman grill in a pizza shape :(

dogcow

@josephbloseph: "...from omelettes and pasties to quiches and croissants."
This thing makes pasties? Edible pasties? NOW they really ARE on to something big!

bosskev

you could make pancakes, or like they said cookies, or.... quesadillas.....

UrIt

adam, you can always have a cake pizza or why not even cookies for topping. everythings better as pizza.

citizen024

I want the oven from Back to the Future 2.

Git Em SteveDave displays attention-grabbing vanity

@stlblufan:

the brownies are a lie.

godwhacker

I cook pizza maybe 1-3 times a week, and while I'd never pay for this ridiculous thing, it does more than cook pizza; From the linked product page:

If you ever tire of pizza (as if), this idiot-proof appliance comes with a special deep dish for cooking all kinds of delicious snacks: from omelettes and pasties to quiches and croissants. Enormous ovens? Who needs 'em.

josephbloseph

Actually, the product page says that if you tire of pizza, it comes with a "special deep-dish insert" to allow you to cook other delicacies, such as....brownies. Now, it won't be a square pan of brownies, but I'm guessing a round pan tastes substantially similar.

stlblufan

These things typically also cook a pizza WAAAAY faster than you can cook one in a standard oven...

Stupid people, thinking things are stupid, cuz they don't think about the stupid context of its use, rather they just thinking things are stupid, cuz they sound stupid, and cool people always think things are stupid, and these stupid people want to be cool, so they think the thing is stupid...

bpapa9013

I bet everyone who has one of these is a sky-mall shopper as well....

firedancyr7

Adam, I know living in a one room railroad apartment above a S&M nightclub can be tough, but if you buy an extension cord you can plug in both this handy pizza oven and your George Foreman. Though you'd still be fucked on the brownies. You'll have to ingest your pot another way. I suggest smoking it.

Hectorvex

over consumerism at it's finest.

hagrun

I bet it has something to do with the amount of energy you save. Don't forget that to bake a pizza, you have to preheat the entire oven.... that whole space.

This is probably for the "green" people.

Pnut78

One's better off just investing in a good baking stone and a good oven. I have no problem with a pizza-specific doodads, since pizza is LIFE and is better than every single one of us, but this just looks chintzy.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

Less clean-up and you don't have to worry about your drunken roommate leaving the oven set to "Burn the House Down."

GeekyNerdGuy

hot dang adam... lol

you seem pretty pissed about this pizza maker... lol

xaflatoonx

If it could actually replicate a stone/ceramic oven, I'd be all over it, but there's no way that thing is getting to the 500+ degree's you need to really do a pizza right.

FAIL!

Blue Oyster Cultist

@Mr.SithNinja: oh domn no I look stupid... ( NEED EDIT PLESE!!! )

Mr.SithNinja

@Carmen Sucks: Stupis is as stupid buys.

Mr.SithNinja

Silly?? Bending over and burning yourself trying to take a pizza out of the oven is silly!! I'll take 12!

Mr.SithNinja

Because people are stupid enough and come up with stupid enough reasons to buy this stupid thing.

Stupid, isn't it?

Carmen Sucks

You bought an oven designed to only cook pizzas, and now you have to live with that choice.

bosskev

@bosskev:

i want both!!

godwhacker

Hey - say what you want about an oven dedicated to pizza, but I really enjoyed the Pizzazz that I had for a couple years. Cooked the perfect frozen pizza without any hassle.

moonphrogg

Hey. If college students wants to eat $.99 frozen pizza every night for dinner while living in their 400sqft studio, then this is perfect.

_badtziscool

@DisposableInterloper:
Hey, you dream about your kind of edible pasty

and let the rest of Giz dream about their kind of edible pasties.

bosskev

Hector, you cannot have a 1-room railroad apartment. That's just silly. And I wish I lived above an S&M club. Instead, I live above a bowling alley and below another below alley.

OMG! Ponies!

@bosskev:
Just what the doctor ordered.
I'll take two of those and call you in the morning......

aec007

@theczardictates: I actually found myself wishing for something like this the other day. I want to see heat readings going up above 700 before I start getting excited. If this thing could hit 800 I'd buy one in a heartbeat

It IS possible to get a standard oven up to high enough heat to properly char a crust- check out Jeff Varasano's (he's basically the end-all be-all of homemade pizza chefs) page:
[slice.seriouseats.com]

I'd be interested to find out what kind of stone they're using that holds up to such (apparently) high temps.

@bosskev: I sure hope giz doesn't censor that post. There is a shortage of perfect breasts in the world... it would be a shame to cover those up.

lpranal

By the time you buy all these countertop coocking devices (rotisserie oven, microwave oven, toaster oven, pizza oven, etc...) either you have to move to a new place with a monster countertop area or actually buy a $1200+ oven that can actually cook and save yourself the trouble.

:)

aec007

@anibundel: You never hear that guy complaining about toilets only having one task.

Crowbot

EU ONLY... damn, I was just about to get mine!!

iam.gmo

@bosskev:

Holy crap, is that a baked good smiling at me?!

I like the blue heart-shaped pieces of film on the other baked goods much better, even though it gets points for smiling.

x3r0

I like it. You could probably cook all sorts of flat things in it and that mainly what I use my oven for, pizza and cookies.

Crowbot

I believe this item breaks Alton's law of uni-taskers. Unacceptable.

anibundel

@bosskev:
Dude, if you've got boobs as big as hers, I think you should be dreaming of a man-bra instead of edible pasties.

Y'know, just saying...

DisposableInterloper

I love this article. This is the kind of thing I want to say to people who buy stupid products, and there are oh so many.

thequinox

@Jory: I dont know why you put an apostrophe in pizzas, idiot.

Jory

@Blue Oyster Cultist: 500 F? Try 800-900 F. The best pizzeria's in New York City all cook their pizza at 800-900 degrees F for around 2-4 minutes.

Jory

@stlblufan: You could remove all but the inscribed brownie square, and sent the removed product to me. :-) Am I using my geometry terms correctly?

Harlan

The comments on this product are crazy. It's like why have a kettle when it can only boil water? Could you just put a pan on your hob. Why have a toaster when you can put your bread under the grill? I've not got this one but a similar one that I got from Italy a few years back and it's far far better than a pizza stone in the oven, it takes 4 minutes to cook a pizza at around 450c which isn't as good as have a stone oven like they do in good restaurants but it's the best you're gonna do at home for fifty quid.

WeeeRob

This is the Pizazz post all over again

UofITom

Does this work on Deep-dish pizzas too? Because if so, we could start that whole "NY Pizza VS Chicago Pizza" argument.

Either way, I get pizza, and I'm happy.

Chromeo

@Jory:
Neapolitan pizzas are in the 700+ F range. Only a handful of übertraditional pizzarias do it like that in New York, and damn near every NY pizzaria does good pizza.

DisposableInterloper

RRAAAAGGEEEE!!! :P

Frucci sounds a little angry over it... but I can see how useful that is.
I myself know lots of people who eat pizza almost on a daily basis.

This probably uses less energy and space than conventional ovens.

And I'm guessing that maybe you can use it to make smaller stuff too...

Also: Professional use. Like Expresso machines, would be neat to have something like that in a place that sells pizzas but not only pizzas.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

I think this might be what some of you are looking for, although they never seem to have any in stock, damn it!
[www.hammacher.com]

Rincewind

@firedancyr7: Sorry bud, I have one and I can't afford to walk into a mall, much less a shop in one.

LOL ok NOW I'm done

kendra68

ok I have both a pizza oven and a real oven, and I hate to tell you this Adam, I guess I take offense to the tone of your article, but Hello! With a pizza oven you don't have to heat up your whole house to cook one pizza. You don't use as much gas, and the pizza oven I got was like $20, it works great and it cooks a pizza in 12 minutes flat.

kendra68

Quit calling me stupid. Just because I havent seen my countertop in 16 weeks (ever since I bought that new ferrari coffee machine) Does not qualify me as stoopid.

Who wouldent want this Pizza oven. It takes my oven 30 minutes on a dead short to reach 475 then I have to wait another 20 minutes for my pizza to cook.

I want two of them! I'll have to mount them in the bathroom on the wall next to the electric tooth brush between the Water Pik and My ultra sonic face moistureizer.

IMWylde

Say, could any of you folks of an investagative nature try to find out who the actual manufacturer of the high-temp oven I linked to might be? Maybe we'd have a better chance of getting one if we don't have to go through Hamhock-Schmegiggy.

Rincewind

@Rincewind: Awesome! now I just have to slip my credit card some date rape drugs and take advantage of it...

lpranal

The pizza ovens in my restaurant can cook a pizza to perfection in about 3 minutes. I'm always disappointed by my results at home- even using a pizza stone and the oven on full blast I cannot get anywhere near the quality of the professional ovens. But they cost a fortune to run and require 450V AC- not exactly domestic friendly!

I doubt this product can get anywhere near the results of a pro oven but if it can outperform my domestic oven then I'd buy it

jimbowyer

Ya, I don't see the bad thing about only cooking pizzas...am I crazy?

efenili

... so you were too cool for a pizza oven and bought a regular sized oven instead only to realize you didn't have space for it in your dorm room ... ha ha ha ... "Too goddamned bad, you shortsighted idiot." ;)

... and you were too cool to read the actual product page: "If you ever tire of pizza (as if), this idiot-proof appliance comes with a special deep dish for cooking all kinds of delicious snacks: from omelettes and pasties to quiches and croissants. Enormous ovens? Who needs 'em."

ha ha ha ... "Too goddamned bad, you shortsighted idiot." ;)

But it sure must feel awesome to be an über-cool gizmo-hack and have all the other shortsighted idiots agree with whatever you say ;)

mm1234

@jimbowyer: Your domestic oven can go hotter. See my comment above (the first one)

lpranal

@bpapa9013: Oh I'm sorry...I didn't know your fat ass couldn't wait another 20 minutes for a friggin pizza to be cooked. Only stupid FAT people need food this fast from something that is a waste of money.

Carmen Sucks

If this thing can actually get hotter than an oven (I believe most top out at 500 or 550) it would make it worthwhile. Just by looking at it though..... I'd say the odds on that are not good.

robinandtami

@lpranal:
Pretty much the only way you can get a consumer-grade electric over to hit 800 F is if it has a self-cleaning feature. But then, you risk burning the pizza, as self-cleaning is way too hot, so you'd need to do some modding.

@Chromeo:
Yes, it does. It comes with a deep dish in addition to a stone.

DisposableInterloper

Why would anyone ever want to eat anything other than pizza?

Jesse in Japan

@Carmen: Lean Mean A Mans Dream Sex Machine:
Small problem there: If pizza isn't cooked within a few minutes, it becomes a dried out, nasty piece of crap. Pizza afficionados need pizza that fast.

Fat people eat pizza that fast. That's the difference. This device isn't a waste of money if it works as advertised.

DisposableInterloper

@mm1234: You took the words right out of my mouth. Adam is often the funniest writer, but he got served this time.

jtwaverly

Adam, you need to turn in your man card for a full review. This machine is AWESOME!

Paul

Here's the thing... I live in a one room efficiency that does not HAVE an oven, is too small for an oven, and in fact could not ever have an ACTUAL oven. Therefore, a device such as this (or perhaps the traditional silver pizza oven, because I'm not exactly picky about the source of my pizza - the frozen food section is plenty good enough for me) is perfect for the typical college student and/or recent-yet-still-poor graduate.

True story.

Ally-san