This pizza oven is legit. It actually has blown my mind. So far I've cooked 6 pizzas and they have all been amazing. At first, my skills at getting the pizza dough just the right thickness and evenly spread were not so great. But the pizza was still amazingly delicious (just not so pretty). After I had made 3 or 4, though, I have it down to a science. I use store-bought fresh pizza dough from a high-end grocery store or, if you are lucky enough to have an Italian grocer where you live like I do, from there. Homemade pizza sauce is the only way to go. It's so easy and cheap to make! Just purée some peeled plum tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, basil, and Italian seasoning. Add your cheese and toppings (my favorite is crumbled Italian sausage cooked with fennel seeds), and it's done. I calculated it out and with the dough and all toppings, these pizzas cost me about $2.25 each. And they have gotten rave reviews from friends and family. In fact, a couple folks have told me that they thought it was the best pizza they ever had, anywhere (and I humbly would have to agree). It's so simple - store-bought dough, easy pizza sauce, and fresh toppings. The pizza oven does the rest. Warm it up (about 8-10 minutes), put the pizza on the stone with the provided VERY easy to use divided pizza peel, and wait 5 minutes. Done to perfection. Frozen pizza is a thing of the past for me. Using the Petite Pizzeria is cheaper and 10x more delicious than any frozen pizza I've ever had, with relatively little effort and time involved in making a pizza. I seriously would consider buying 10 of these and opening up a pizza restaurant. I'd probably make a killing.
OK, so even with 5 stars, no product is perfect. First complaint is that the divided pizza peel had already started to break apart where the strips of wood were seamed. I hope I can find another peel like this because it is amazingly easy to get a perfectly shaped pie on the stone (when I used to try it with a traditional peel in my range oven, my pizzas ended up malformed and with half of the toppings tossed off and burning on the oven burners). Great peel design, bad quality (though I have not seen any evidence of bad quality of the device itself). Second, the pizzas are small. Maybe a little too much for one person, but not enough for two. So expect some leftovers (that's not necessarily a bad thing, but another 2 or 3 inches on the stone would have meant I only had to make one pizza for me and my wife instead of two). It would be great to have a temperature reading and timer built-in. Not that the recommended settings (who knows what the actual temp is?) and my kitchen timer haven't worked perfectly so far, but they could be integrated. Sorry, I just like to know for some unknown reason if my pizza was cooked at 600 degrees or 700 degrees. I think these improvements can come with future models, as I think this product is relatively new.
Overall, though, you just can't beat this thing. There is a similar a Breville model, but I cmt imagine that it could do a better job. And at only $99 for pizzeria quality pizza (or better by some opinions)??? What are you waiting for? Just buy it!
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Good product
I received this product today, and I tried it. This little guy heats up ver fast and cook pizza very quickly. I need to play with this unit more to perfect my pizza. I used home made par baked multigrain pizza base. Also made dessert pizza as per my sons request, it made my stone little bit messy, next time I'll use parchment paper to line my stone. This product lost one star because of low quality pizza paddle, just with one use it concave from middle. I will update as I use more with fresh dough.
