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Breville - the Smart Oven Pizzaiolo - Brushed Stainless Steel
Average customer rating
4.5
(119 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 119 reviews
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87%of customers recommend this product.
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Customer Reviews for Breville - the Smart Oven Pizzaiolo - Brushed Stainless Steel
Posted by: Anonymous
Verified Purchase:Yes
Best purchase I made in 2020! The recipe to make pizza dough that comes with the machine is easy and tastes great. The pizzaiolo is easy to use, and turns out crispy brick oven style pizzas. Me and my family do pizza making nights and we are able to turn out fantastic fresh pizza in as short as 2 minutes.
I have only used the machine so far on one setting and have only made home made pizzas . I thoroughly enjoy this machine and the pizza it makes.
I would highly recommend this pizza oven.
The only downside, my pizza stone cracked after the first use . Not sure how that will effect cooking in the long run.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
5
The Joy and Adventure of Pizza Making has Returned!
on January 17, 2021
Posted by: Uncle B
I have been making home made pizza for over 40 years starting with frozen bread dough and graduating 35 years ago to making my own dough. The pizza is pretty good (friends really enjoy it) but there are limits to what one can produce in a kitchen oven. It took a while to get over the price of the Pizzaiolo oven but with only so many more years to go, I thought, what the heck! As it turns out, it has been a great move. I have only made about 12 to 15 pizzas in the last three weeks as I continue to refine my dough mixture to work best with the metal pizza peel (after having discovered the joys of using parchment paper on top of the peel when cooking in the kitchen oven at 450 degrees or less (from the peel on the parchment right into the oven, three minutes later, whip the parchment out from under the pizza and leave the pizza on the ceramic stone to finish), it was hard to go to working with a plain metal peel). I found the dough recipe for Neapolitan pizza that is provided on the cards that come with the Pizzaiolo oven a bit too wet and it was almost impossible to get the dough off the peel into the oven successfully even with the recommended amount of semolina and white flour on the peel (though the dough was great to work with!) I used about one ounce less water with the second batch of dough which seemed to help. I am still experimenting as I have gone to my old recipe which uses activated dry yeast (a quarter cup of warm water and a half teaspoon of sugar letting it work for five or more minutes before adding it to otherwise cold water). I had to drop the amount of yeast from 2 and a quarter teaspoons to 1 and a half as the initial batch blew the crust up around the edge quite high which lead to more scorching than I would have wanted (but it was still very tasty). The 1 and a half worked better and I can probably get by with 1 teaspoon (so try using the machine recipe with one less ounce of water and get the yeast to work for five minutes rather than just throwing it in dry). In the end, I am having a blast experimenting. The oven is incredibly efficient. The Neapolitan pizza is ready in about 2 minutes and the flavour is to die for! It is really good and for those of you wanting to cut back on the calories a bit, the pizza is so tasty that you can actually get by with less. We often just make a plain cheese pizza but my favourite has two spices, oregano and anise (slight licorice taste which frankly is surprisingly good). We use a light coating of crushed canned Roma or similar tomatoes and a chunk of cheese from a good block of mozzarella (not the fresh mozzarella) and note, you don't need much mozzarella thanks to the size of the pie and the fact that you are going to get a nice round edge all around the perimeter of the pizza pie! I am looking forward to continuing to experiment with the Neapolitan pizzas and suspect that I may never get to try the other settings since they sound somewhat less "exciting". How to go Breville! (Note that I am also a great fan of Breville espresso machines and have been using them for so long I cannot remember when we got our first machine! I may add a picture of the pizza at some point in time in the future but generally the pizza doesn't last long enough for a picture to be taken! If you can afford it, go for it, I don't believe that you will regret the move.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Posted by: Kat
Verified Purchase:Yes
We’ve been using this pizza oven for months with no issues and DELICIOUS pizza! It was a splurge, but if you order pizza even once a month you can justify the expense pretty easily. We moved from Chicago to an area with.... shall we say... LESS than great pizza.... this has been a flight for the whole family.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Posted by: Anonymous
Verified Purchase:Yes
This oven is quite expensive, yet it does exactly what it promises to do. Breville obviously created this oven to do one thing well: Make authentic neapolitan pizza at home without needing fire, and it succeeds in spades. You do need some practice and develop the relevant culinary skills. I had to learn a lot about pizza and watch a lot of YouTube videos. I had a few pizza disasters from a messed up launch due to dough sticking to the peel. But if you put in the work and do some experimenting, he oven will perform for you and reward your effort.
The Breville makes fine pizzas of other styles, but the machine was clearly designed around Neapolitan and that's where it truly shines. For me though, on the auto setting for "woodfire" it took me 3 minutes to get the perfect Neapolitan, not 2 mins. For NY style, I needed to manually set the deck to 550F, top 525F to get good results. I'm still trying to find the optimal setting for pan pizza. As a bonus the oven is also perfect for Indian naan. I found I could make perfect, restaurant-quality naan with deck 650F, top 600F, bake for 2 mins. All in all, some days I wonder if I was insane to spend this much money on a pizza oven, but overall I have no regrets, because I use the oven frequently and make awesome delicious pizza/naan that I couldn't make otherwise.
Yes, you can make bigger and probably even better pizza with an actual woodfire oven, but that's simply not practical for a lot of people. An electric oven is also also many times more convenient than those specialized metal propane/wood pellet pizza ovens. If you can afford it and you love pizza (an naan), this machine delivers. I've heard many horror stories of the included pizza stone being easy to crack, I've been carefully babying mine, so far no issues, fingers crossed.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting breville.com
Customer Rating
5
Awesome Oven
on January 11, 2021
Posted by: KB
Cooked our first Pizzas this past weekend and boy were they good. Super good device.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting breville.com
Customer Rating
5
not hard to clean
on January 10, 2021
Posted by: guylaine
love it and read many user have problem cleaning it but after my first use i found a trick to clean it i use a small cosmetic brush very soft and voila ,remove the stone gently and brush use the brush to clean everything under the coils perfect
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Posted by: Nick
Verified Purchase:Yes
We are very happy with this product, it has made gourmet pizza possible at home. Be careful with the pizza stone, we very gently washed it and it cracked.
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Posted by: snowbomb
Verified Purchase:Yes
This pizza oven is wonderful! So easy to make fresh, gourmet pizza whenever you want.. we use ours all the time and it's so compact so it's easy to fit in your kitchen. I also want to add that Breville's customer service is top notch!
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