Pizzazz pizza oven bought 20 years ago when I graduated college is still going strong.

[u/markcsoul]

[u/JalapenoBenedict]

Do those really work? It seems crazy and I don’t understand the science behind it. But magic pizza is pretty cool

[u/Blueberry_Boy → u/JalapenoBenedict]

We are ride or die for ours. It was originally a hand-me-down from relatives, but it’s honestly the best way to cook a frozen pizza at home.

The original one we had did eventually die, but we got another on amazon, they still make them!

Not a bot or shill, I just really love this thing.

[u/yellowweasel → u/Blueberry_Boy]

You ever stare at it the whole time it’s cooking and then when you look away your vision is spinning the opposite way for a bit?

[u/Ontological_Gap → u/yellowweasel]

Childhood memory unlocked

[u/gophercuresself → u/yellowweasel]

Omg I was in a hospital waiting room daydreaming while staring at a horizontal scrolling LED sign. It was consistently moving right to left at a good lick the entire time, until at one point the text stopped at the end of the sign and I almost fell off my chair.

[u/JalapenoBenedict → u/yellowweasel]

You might be stoned

[u/taffy-nay → u/yellowweasel]

Guitar Hero has a similar effect on me.

[u/rtxa → u/Blueberry_Boy]

how is it any better than just an oven? also how much frozen pizza do you eat??

[u/Hakunin_Fallout → u/rtxa]

People either have insane size countertops to store all this junk, or walk around like fucking Jabba the Hutt after their 10th frozen pizza in a week

[u/Elemental19xx → u/Hakunin_Fallout]

Growing up before the popularization of air fryers, this was essentially our version. It does pizza very well obviously, but also cooks any frozen food like nuggets and fries very well, with the added benefit of not needing to heat the the house up with the oven.

[u/ChefChopNSlice → u/Hakunin_Fallout]

It’s basically a hair dryer mounted to a turntable. Alton Brown would have a field day with this useless “uni-tasker”.

[u/Hakunin_Fallout → u/ChefChopNSlice]

That's it then, lads, I'm cooking my frozen pizza with a weed destroying heat gun next weekend! Might even put it on youtube or something, lol

[u/ChefChopNSlice → u/Hakunin_Fallout]

Subscribed!

[u/markcsoul → u/JalapenoBenedict]

Works like a charm, way faster, easier, and less messy than using traditional oven

[u/letmypeoplebathe → u/markcsoul]

There is no way it's faster than an oven, but I'll give you the other two fo sho

Edit: I didn't think about preheating. I get it.

[u/markcsoul → u/letmypeoplebathe]

No preheating is a big time saver, but only takes about 16-18 minutes on average

[u/Tank_O_Doom → u/markcsoul]

And less heat in the house (except when it's cold out) and less electricity.

[u/SolomonG → u/Tank_O_Doom]

Less electricity is questionable no?

It doesn't pre-heat sure, but it also loses way more heat to the ambient air than a closed oven would. Once you hit the temp you need a regular oven isn't going full blast.

[u/therealhlmencken → u/SolomonG]

Yeah but you gotta warm a whole oven up. Over 3 pizzas I bet an oven wins over 1 pizza in 16 minutes I’m sure this bad boy isn’t drawing oven amperage

[u/catjuggler → u/therealhlmencken]

Is everyone sleeping on toaster ovens? I have one that also air fries and use it more than my oven

[u/ipreferanothername → u/catjuggler]

Yeah, when the summer is hot af I'm not turning the proper oven on. But my ninja air fryer toaster oven gets used all the time.

Frozen pizza in 18 minutes, crispy fries, consistent toast. They're on woot all the time for under 100. I love mine.

[u/Starfire2313 → u/ipreferanothername]

Are you guys fitting whole frozen pizzas in your pizza oven??

I use my air fryer and crock pot in the summer to avoid the big ole oven

[u/LaUNCHandSmASH → u/ipreferanothername]

I'm from Chicago and "Italian kitchens" are a thing. You may or may not be aware but Italian Americans traditionally have hated air conditioning before it became ubiquitous. Chicago was built with alleyways and therefore also has detached garages facing said alleys.

The evolution of both those things was a "kitchen" consisting of an oven with usually a few cabinets/counter and sometimes a fridge in the garage so the nonas can cook their red sauce (among other delicious things) all year round. I've personally seen them on the south side but I'd imagine they are (were) just as popular all over the city.

I used to gag going into my divorced grandpas place in the summer because he didn't believe in deodorant and loved cigars but thats a whole other story...

[u/Jack-Innoff → u/catjuggler]

Can you fit a whole pizza in your toaster oven?

[u/ObligatoryID → u/Jack-Innoff]

Mine (above) can. I purposefully looked for one big enough for a 12-inch. If not on the pan just on the rack, closer to 14-inch.

[u/International-Ant174 → u/catjuggler]

We are a Breville house - can't tell you the last time we used the "proper" oven.

If it fits in the Breville, that is how it gets cook.

And Jack's frozen pizza work perfect from it.

Literally the best purchase I made 8ish years ago.

[u/monadashibe → u/International-Ant174]

Same. We are literally using ours to its death bed.

[u/SubstantialAgency914 → u/therealhlmencken]

Nah my oven def uses less electricity. Its gas.

Edit: its still more energy.

[u/therealhlmencken → u/SubstantialAgency914]

You’re a gas ❤️

[u/UncleLeeroy0 → u/therealhlmencken]

OOOOHHHHHHHHHHH

SNNNNNNAP

[u/SubstantialAgency914 → u/therealhlmencken]

Thank you. 😊

[u/TwoBionicknees → u/therealhlmencken]

warming up a whole oven doesn't really mean anything, it's closed, most of the heat is kept in, the massive majority of heat lost is not in warming up the space in the oven it's in how much is bled outside while trying to maintain temperature.

[u/Tank_O_Doom → u/therealhlmencken]

The pizza thing will use a max of 1,500 watts.

From EnergySage . com

Key takeaways

On average, electric stoves use 1,000 to 3,000 watts of electricity.

Ovens use 2,000 to 5,000 watts of electricity on average.

Using a stove and oven for a combined 7 hours per week will use about 1,022 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity per year.

[u/balls2hairy → u/Tank_O_Doom]

My toaster oven fits a 14" pizza and is like 1/3 the size of a typical oven. Hell our full oven is just pan storage now though it's just my wife and I.

Breville toaster ovens are awesome!

[u/wlonkly → u/Tank_O_Doom]

Yeah, but a 3000w element will reach a given temperature twice as fast as a 1500w element, because resistive heat is 100% efficient. You need to compare efficiency with watt-hours.

[u/TwoBionicknees → u/Tank_O_Doom]

how much something uses peak is a completely irrelevant number.

If a oven heats up for 3 minutes then only turns on every 2 minutes for 15 seconds vs something using half the power but it has to turn on every minute for 30 seconds it will use more power overall.

[u/mortgagepants → u/SolomonG]

i wonder if you could put this inside your oven?

[u/EdricStorm → u/SolomonG]

I have one of these, too and use it a lot. They're awesome. The heating elements are only like 3 inches away from the surface of the turntable. An oven heats up the entire volume of air inside of it. The Pizzazz only has to heat up like 9 square inches of air.

It's basically the difference between being across the room from a space heater and right up on it.

[u/JimmyLipps → u/SolomonG]

I once tried to unplug my oven without turning off the breaker. My supine legs twitched so hard they hit the kitchen table and I lost my slippers. I thought for sure my heart had stopped! Not sure how that all translates into electricity consumption, but I learned ovens are not typical appliances that day!

[u/Tank_O_Doom → u/JimmyLipps]

120 volts vs 240 volts. Just a little more tickle! /s

[u/Stonerish → u/JimmyLipps]

I had to be kicked off mine as a kid…grabbed the handle and it was electrified (I lived in Haiti so shit was probably wired wonky) and I couldn’t let go on my own…scary shit

[u/JimmyLipps → u/Stonerish]

I'm glad we're both still kickin!

[u/foomprekov → u/Tank_O_Doom]

my brother in christ he is cooking his pizza with a space heater

[u/PostModernPost → u/markcsoul]

I never preheat the oven I just throw it in and add some time to the recommended amount of time. Works like a charm.

[u/Sertorius126 → u/markcsoul]

😲 who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?

[u/BobbyDukeArts → u/Sertorius126]

I am Arthur, king of the Britons!

[u/Master_Chef_Torte → u/BobbyDukeArts]

I didn't know we had a King. I thought we were an autonomous collective.

[u/w3stvirginia → u/letmypeoplebathe]

It actually is quicker than a regular oven. I have one too can have a pizza done on this before my actual oven even beeps to say it’s preheated, let alone cooked.

[u/MrdnBrd19 → u/letmypeoplebathe]

I always thought they were BS, but they just had one on the YouTube cooking show Sorted and they really liked it. The show is based out of the UK so they didn't even really know what it was; the whole segment is pretty fun because they go into it thinking it's going to be crap.

[u/Brian1326 → u/letmypeoplebathe]

It 100% is faster. The cook time is about the same but you don't need to preheat these.

Edit- For some reason your edit didn't pop up until after I replied.

[u/sirius4778 → u/markcsoul]

I was just thinking about donating ours to goodwill. It is fast and easy but don't like the counter real estate or the idea of getting out of storage for a pizza

[u/mortgagepants → u/sirius4778]

i only cook pizza from like october to april because of this but i live in a very small house so i don't want any more appliances. (1174 square feet built in 1875 or so)

[u/lpen-z → u/markcsoul]

How is the bottom though, crispy or meh?

[u/me_at_myhouse → u/lpen-z]

The pizazz has 2 heating elements. One on bottom, one on Top. You can power either or both.

Since I don't like a crispy/burnt crust, I turn the bottom element off after the dough is the way I like it, and the top element continues to cook the toppings and melt the cheese.

So, you could leave the bottom element on and make it as crispy as you want!

[u/apsilonblue → u/markcsoul]

Does the base heat or is it only the top? Is there some kind of cover? Surely it's incredibly inefficient if it's not covered, most of the heat would be lost.

[u/The_0ven → u/markcsoul]

than using traditional oven

How freaking dare you

[u/_yetisis → u/JalapenoBenedict]

It’s not a whole lot of science. It’s just a small electric burner coil on top and it just spins the pizza underneath it. We have one in our break room at work because a former coworker was that much of an evangelist for them. We honestly just use it like it’s an open-air air fryer half the time, you can cook all sorts of stuff on them.

[u/Roofofcar → u/_yetisis]

You’re missing that the base is also heated. That’s always been the case from the first version, and is key to how it works.

[u/HamBroth → u/Roofofcar]

I was just wondering about the base

[u/Hunter62610 → u/_yetisis]

Top and bottom coils on mine at least

[u/HornyCrowbat → u/_yetisis]

Top and bottom

[u/OwnStudy723 → u/JalapenoBenedict]

Literally saw this a few days ago on Sorted Food's YT, even one of the actual chef's liked it.

https://youtu.be/zU5dpvQBFXQ?si=3QR7QQ0-ucd1iXmb&t=1050

I was very skeptical as well, but I guess it really does its job

[u/MakeMagatsCry → u/JalapenoBenedict]

I just watched Sorted Food review one from the 90s. They made fun of it but were blown away at the quality of frozen pizza it cooked. It made me want to try one

[u/nutkinknits → u/JalapenoBenedict]

My husband's roommate in college had one of these. Husband (then boyfriend) and I would get the chef boyardee pizza kits and a package of shredded mozzarella and make these on the weekend. Food service was limited on our campus on Sundays. I know the pizza maker wasn't meant for pizza dough but it worked great.

[u/mortgagepants → u/nutkinknits]

i have never heard of CBOD pizza kits and a guy at work mentioned one at work today and now i see this comment.

[u/CowboysFTWs → u/JalapenoBenedict]

Yeah, the work great. Had one and would make healthy-ish chicken pizza on it. My so toss it lol

[u/jun2san → u/JalapenoBenedict]

I loved mine. But I made the mistake of putting the circular pan in the washing machine. It rusted up

[u/Western_Rhubarb_7959 → u/JalapenoBenedict]

They do!

My dad, god rest his soul, bought me one well over 20 years ago and they are great for frozen pizzas and darned good for homemade.

[u/Mac2311 → u/JalapenoBenedict]

Boy ain't lying, have one and use it all the time. Definitely faster than the oven. Versitale and gives you a great crust also since it heats the bottom. Not just the top.

[u/smellyjerk → u/JalapenoBenedict]

Its basically an open air fryer a pizza can fit on. Most frozen pizzas are done in less than 20 minutes without no preheat.

[u/TwoBionicknees → u/smellyjerk]

most frozen pizzas are done in less than 20 minutes with no preheat in a normal oven as well.

[u/Appropriate-Bug-6467 → u/JalapenoBenedict]

Work like a charm.

Almost exactly what domino's uses on smaller scale. 

Element above and below, instructions on heating different crusts, thin, rising, stuffed, frozen, fresh. 

Better than oven, pizza stone, BBQ. 

Makes a red baron or a fresheta taste like restaurant pizza.

[u/ActuallyFullOfShit → u/JalapenoBenedict]

They are fucking awesome. I wish we still had ours.

[u/gamerjerome → u/JalapenoBenedict]

I was able to cook a Jacks pizza on mine it 10 minutes from frozen. Yes, they work great. The older ones like this one work the best.

[u/Jollyollydude]

This was just reviewed on Sorted and they loved it. I always thought it was kind of a joke but I think they gave it a 10/10 for what it is

[u/Cool-Newspaper6789 → u/Jollyollydude]

I saw that video. Great yt channel 

[u/Jollyollydude → u/Cool-Newspaper6789]

My bro and I found it years ago when staying up late and watching gadget reviews. Took us years to realize they did any cooking on the channel lol

[u/TinDumbass → u/Jollyollydude]

It popped up with one gadget video for me two weeks ago and now I'm seemingly working my way through all of them. So far only bought the spinny grape/garlic peeler

[u/OpticalInfusion]

congratz on the find. what kind of monster buys a frozen square pizza to use with this.

[u/markcsoul → u/OpticalInfusion]

They're from Costco, very high quality for the price

[u/RedFormanEMS → u/markcsoul]

Welcome to Costco! We love you!

[u/bldgabttrme → u/RedFormanEMS]

Brawndo’s got electrolytes, it’s what plants crave!

[u/mdl397 → u/bldgabttrme]

Water? Like from the toilet?

[u/doyouevenglass → u/mdl397]

i didn't think we have time for a latte

[u/YoungAndDeadHead → u/doyouevenglass]

He interrupted Ouch! My Balls!

[u/its_polystyrene → u/YoungAndDeadHead]

I can't believe you like money too. We should hang out.

[u/MAKstyles75 → u/its_polystyrene]

Excuse me! I have a boyfriend.

[u/feedmejack93 → u/bldgabttrme]

This is Americuh, we get all our vegetables in high quality pizza sauce form. And pizza crust is wheat, which is like a vegetable

[u/JalapenoBenedict → u/feedmejack93]

America sauce* America pizza, America Italy. Fuck it, we’re getting all the places now.

[u/cropguru357 → u/markcsoul]

Motor City.

[u/LilMeatBigYeet → u/cropguru357]

Gotta be that one. Best frozen pizza ive ever had.

Although Jack's at 2 am when you're 9 high life's hits pretty good

[u/Chaotic_Genobreaker → u/LilMeatBigYeet]

Used to love motor city but now I can't stand them for some reason. They go pretty crazy on the toppings though.

[u/CptnMayo → u/Chaotic_Genobreaker]

They changed something man, they were legit but then cheaped out something and now the taste is fake

[u/Fit-Appointment5212 → u/CptnMayo]

its the dough and the cheese.

something changed.

cheese doesnt stick to the sides as much and the crust feels too floury

i could be wrong tho

[u/gaytarded69420 → u/Chaotic_Genobreaker]

SAME HERE DUDE, first one I had was a solid 7/10 which is fucking incredible for a freezer pizza. every one after that was a 3.5/10 that made me feel disgusting after eating it

[u/G00bernaculum → u/cropguru357]

and this fucking savage removed it from the tray which is necessary to get that detroit style pizza feel to it

[u/mightyarrow → u/G00bernaculum]

Then he had the audacity to not re-organize the 16 pieces of pepperoni to get them back into their 4x4 grid, and didn't take all the extra cheese and meat cubes and spread them back across the thing.

This guy is a fucking amateur.

Source: I Motor City practically weekly.

[u/CommonClub → u/markcsoul]

Motor City is great and I'm sure your device is also awesome, but you might want to reconsider just cooking this specific pizza in the tray in an oven the way it was intended.

Part of the charm of Detroit Style pizza is the "frico" that forms from the cheese on sides of the crust that gives it a real nice texture. The only way you can get that is in the tray that it comes in as the cheese cooks between the crust and tray and hardens.

To clarify: you actually want to keep any of the cheese that's spilled over to the sides of the crust where it is and cook it in the tray without moving back on top of the pizza.

[u/plutonic00 → u/CommonClub]

Thank you! I've been taking mine out of tray and then pouring all the toppings that had fallen into the tray back on top of the pizza and then returning the pizza to the tray. What a fool I have been!

[u/wessex464 → u/markcsoul]

That is basically exactly what Costco sells in one sentence.

[u/Postman-Sam → u/markcsoul]

Genuine gas.

[u/icefisher225 → u/markcsoul]

You’re not supposed to take it out of the tray so the crust gets crunchy

[u/Axin_Saxon → u/markcsoul]

I was gonna say, I recognize motor city when I see it

[u/bladus → u/markcsoul]

I’ve never tried throwing a Motor City Pizza onto the pizzazz and now I wanna try it.

[u/Number-Thirty-Four → u/OpticalInfusion]

I lived on Totinos square pizzas in college, university, and in the Army whenever possible. Frozen pizza is the backbone of Freedom and Learning, speak not Ill of it.

[u/Princess__Nell → u/Number-Thirty-Four]

Back when I was in college Totinos pizzas were round.

[u/Number-Thirty-Four → u/Princess__Nell]

JFC.... What was the fall of Constantinople like?

Edit- There is no fucking way Totinos pizza only became square in 2016. I would swear they were square by 2000 at least.

Have I been Mandela/Mengele effected?

Second Edit - I'm genuinely having an existential crisis over this. I'm spending the weekend going through old photo albums, there's gotta be a picture of me with a Totinos pizza.

Third Edit - Ok, it did used to be round. Wow. I guess I'm genuinely getting old. The decline into decrepitude is accelerating.

My sister said her favorite picture of me, and the one she uses on her phones contacts list, is me. Five ROUND Totinos pizzas deep after getting back from my first deployment. That was in mid '04, I think.

[u/MadCybertist → u/Number-Thirty-Four]

I didn’t even know they were square lol. Im old and last I ate them they were round.

[u/Puntley → u/Number-Thirty-Four]

No fucking way, I swear they have always been squares. Like, ALWAYS!

[u/Number-Thirty-Four → u/Puntley]

I too thought this. I have seen photographic (Albeit a grainy, early '00s, digital camera photo) evidence of me eating ROUND Totinos pizza. My mind is obviously going, I'm certain dementia and death will soon follow.

[u/Puntley → u/Number-Thirty-Four]

Don't let them do this to you, man. Don't let THEM change your memories!! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU LIVED, DAMN IT!

[u/Number-Thirty-Four → u/Puntley]

You're RIGHT! THEY did it to me! It's all their fault!

I was Mengele effected.

Where the hell are they taking Reggie?

[u/HighOnGoofballs → u/Puntley]

Iirc they went square when they switched from the box to the plastic packaging

[u/Puntley → u/HighOnGoofballs]

I can't believe it. Even you're in on it!

[u/HighOnGoofballs → u/Princess__Nell]

Torino’s went from 99 cents pre covid to three bucks these days. Wild

[u/Mac2311 → u/OpticalInfusion]

Pizzazz don't care. It will cook any pizza and many other things. Can confirm.

[u/Outrageous-Desk-5765 → u/OpticalInfusion]

Motor city. Best frozen pizza ever

[u/mikedvb]

Here, I was expecting there to be a second photo showing the same pizza cooked.

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my whole weekend is now ruined.

[u/Intelligenttrees32 → u/mikedvb]

Legit, I am crushed

[u/TheSillyGhillie → u/Intelligenttrees32]

I am crusted.

[u/Shoontzie → u/mikedvb]

Ok but FR… im ready to buy one but in need receipts!!

[u/Hopeful_Guitar9171]

I bet that makes the whole house smell intensely delicious, baking in the open air.

[u/markcsoul → u/Hopeful_Guitar9171]

Sure does! Especially since I'm in a smaller house

[u/_iscariot_ → u/markcsoul]

Yep I’ve been rocking one since college like 12 years ago. Shit was air frying before air fryers.

[u/NRCS_DRONE → u/markcsoul]

so. . .what happens when you put cookie dough on this thing?

[u/ParticularHistoryo → u/NRCS_DRONE]

It works! Just put foil down first

[u/KraZyGOdOFEccHi → u/NRCS_DRONE]

Works like a charm. I cook cinnamon rolls on it

[u/BoltActionRifleman → u/Hopeful_Guitar9171]

Makes me want an air freshener that’s pizza scented

[u/cuntface878 → u/BoltActionRifleman]

That's just torturing yourself!

[u/akkmedk]

This is an S-tier device. Not only does it make a dollar store frozen pizza taste gourmet but you can also dump a bunch of tortilla chips and sprinkle it with grated cheese and it becomes the perfect nacho machine. BYO salsa and guac. You get to pick your perfectly melty cheesy chip at the exact right time.

[u/Zifff → u/akkmedk]

Not just that. It works as the perfect reheat machine. I have the white from 25 years ago and have used it to reheat anything you can think of

[u/commshep12 → u/Zifff]

We've had ours for about 15, and I still have yet to see anything that's as good at reviving bar food/fried food. Gets the crispiness back on fried pickles and onion petals from the night in like 6 minutes, thing thing punches above its weight for sure

[u/prize_206 → u/Zifff]

reheat Anything? like ANY thing? like dead bedroom?

[u/Zifff → u/prize_206]

Yes. Anything. It was and still is a marvel of the machine world. Never breaks and never quits. Even under fire. Yes, things have caught fire during reheating and it still works fine

[u/IChurnToBurn → u/akkmedk]

I’d always sprinkle some fresh cheese on my frozen pizza a minute or two before it was done. Just a slow sprinkle as the pizza rotated. Felt like a fucking 3 star chef.

[u/asdf4fdsa → u/IChurnToBurn]

Pizza-bae here

[u/PrintLife92 → u/akkmedk]

you can bake cookies on it too. god tier device

[u/akkmedk → u/PrintLife92]

Casual readers will think we're joking but I am 100% serious. Some people make their entire identity about air frying. I lived in a shared house with this device 20 years ago and it changed my life. I have never stopped thinking about it.

[u/Cinderhazed15 → u/akkmedk]

Pizzaz walked so air fryers could run…..

[u/abendrot2 → u/akkmedk]

Is it better than an air fryer? I currently use an air fryer to cook the costco 3 pack of Margherita pizzas, haven't tried nachos in it yet. Thinking about getting this thing but wondering if it's a waste since I already have a fryer

[u/akkmedk → u/abendrot2]

It's just different. Essentially it's only 2 heating elements, one above and one below, with a turntable. I don't know why it performs magic but it does.

[u/SwordfishOk504 → u/akkmedk]

Two of those and a microphone is where it's at.

[u/danielsangeo → u/abendrot2]

I have both the Pizzazz and an air fryer. The air fryer (the one I have anyway) uses a bucket so you can pile up fries or whatever. The Pizzazz rotates the metal plate so you can get wider things (like a large pizza) to cook. I wouldn't try to put a full frozen pizza into my air fryer. LOL

[u/BoysLinuses → u/PrintLife92]

Ok I feel like I'm in the infomercial now. But wait! There's more!

[u/XachAttack11]

Never seen something like this

[u/SheepherderMost2727 → u/XachAttack11]

I got mine at a yard sale.

[u/Gladwulf → u/XachAttack11]

yeah, what the actual fuck is this thing.

looks it was built by a hobo from parts from a electric iron and hot plate

[u/dbpf → u/Gladwulf]

Iron and a record player? Does it spin?

[u/GlumNature → u/dbpf]

Yes the plate spins very slowly.

[u/EarthshatterReady → u/Gladwulf]

Well it’ll cook the hell outta whatever you want so I’d say it’s worth it no matter the look

[u/bart2278]

Best appliance I own.

[u/RN-RescueNinja]

I was gifted one then gave it away as a white elephant gift new in box. From the comments it appears I made a serious error. My loss

[u/ZappyKins → u/RN-RescueNinja]

Well, maybe you made someone very happy!

So, not a total loss.

[u/stefaniki]

SortedFood did an episode about testing early 2000s kitchen gadgets recently (last week maybe?) and they had one of these. They were surprisingly impressed with it.

[u/GreenTeaRain7]

Can you post a pic of what the pizza looks like when it’s done?

[u/theplushpairing]

Why is your pizza square?

[u/alvik → u/theplushpairing]

Cause they don't cut corners.

[u/OePea → u/alvik]

Bravo

[u/alvik → u/OePea]

Wish I could take credit but I stole it from Ledo Pizza.

[u/Sir-Nicholas → u/alvik]

Who stole it from Wendy’s

[u/OePea → u/alvik]

It's reddit, we like overused jokes

[u/markcsoul → u/theplushpairing]

Costco pizza

[u/NotEnoughHotdogs → u/markcsoul]

"Welcome to CostCo, I love you."

[u/Mental_Painting783 → u/theplushpairing]

Square pizza is a thing

[u/CitizenCue]

Whoever invented this did not have kids.

[u/kds5065 → u/CitizenCue]

Or cats

[u/Dr_Chym → u/kds5065]

Seriously. We have 3 cats … 1 is a tortie … she’d literally find her way on top of every pizza… without getting cooked. She’d treadmill the pizza to eat it and do general fuckery to it.

[u/RelevantDress → u/Dr_Chym]

My tortie would break it, scatter half eaten pizza everywhere and then get mad at me when I cleaned it up

[u/AbleArcher420 → u/RelevantDress]

I was eating that!

[u/mfising]

How long does it take to finish baking?

[u/markcsoul → u/mfising]

Usually 16-18 minutes depending on the pizza type/size

[u/Difficult_Spell7334 → u/markcsoul]

I was thinking it would take way longer. Im actually really impressed!! Have you tired cooking a pizza with homemade dough?

[u/markcsoul → u/Difficult_Spell7334]

I haven't, I'm not sure fresh pizzas are ideal, I find if the frozen pizza sits out too long before starting to cook it doesn't always cook the best

[u/fo0bar → u/Difficult_Spell7334]

Not "real" homemade dough, but I'll do both those pre-baked crusts from the supermarket and "just add water" dough kits. Both work fine, and you can even use the pan to build the pizza if you prop the sides up on potholders (the bottom middle protrudes out so the unit can spin the pan).

[u/clarkdashark]

This seems incredibly inefficient lol

[u/Mac2311 → u/clarkdashark]

Had mine for 5 years and it is definitely effecient. Works great. Would recommend to anyone.

[u/slow_st]

I’ve had one going strong for 10+ years

[u/markcsoul → u/slow_st]

Go for 10 more like mine!

[u/DexterM1776]

Looks like an iron on a turn table

[u/markcsoul → u/DexterM1776]

Basically yes

[u/Witness_Many]

This post is as wholesome as anything else on the internet right now. This is amazing.

[u/CASSIUS_AT_BEST]

This appliance is a staple in my family. They last forever and the only time it broke is bc my wife dropped it.

[u/pantsarenew]

Wild, do you know this guy? Lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/s/GWxIGn1Ah5

[u/TheGuyWhoWantsNachos]

Stupid European here.

So the bottom heats up and then it gets "circulating" heat from above while it slowly spins around, or?

[u/Saltpork545 → u/TheGuyWhoWantsNachos]

Effectively yes. There's a bottom and top heating element and a motor. The two heating elements cook your food while the motor makes it rotate, so it does stuff like brown and cook evenly.

[u/TheShipEliza]

I dated a girl with one of these and the smells are locked in my brain forever. Great stuff

[u/BodyBagSlam → u/TheShipEliza]

Of the pizza right?

[u/corvus_cornix → u/BodyBagSlam]

Is only smellz

[u/RikkiLostMyNumber]

I would be tempted to make other stuff with that. Strongly tempted.

[u/SergeiMosin → u/RikkiLostMyNumber]

I don’t own one (yet) but I’d imagine it’s probably great for nachos

[u/penis_hernandez]

College me would like to warn everyone, do not attempt to cook bacon on this

[u/Witness_Many]

Brave Little Toaster

[u/Mefflin]

Got one just like that from my uncle like eight years ago as he had it for god knows how long and give it too use when our oven was out for repair and just told us too keep it

[u/fatpunk]

I love mine.

[u/we_r_all_1]

Bought ours 20 years ago at a thrift store and it’s also still going strong!

[u/trailcrane]

They are the bomb. I've seen almost everything cooked on them. Even bacon!

Bacon is very messy but it works lol

[u/bbenji69996]

Presto. Chippewa Falls, WI.

[u/FrozenOcean420]

I have a super old ninja turtle pizza cooker that still works amazing haha, it’s not like an open burner style so much as a flat waffle maker that heats from both sides.

[u/QuarterOpposite1989]

Had mine for 18 years, have made about one pizza on it every week over those years. Great for chicken nugget heat up too.

[u/Glaggablagga]

One thing I love about using the Pizzazz is I can add topping cheese while it rotates after the pepperoni has browned.

Another thing I love about it is making a big ass chocolate chip cookie on it.