- Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Kitchen Gadgets.
I am Esther Choi, and today
I did not order pizza to eat for myself.
This is actually the Pizza Box.
So, $45 on Amazon.
This claims that it makes pizza in 15 to 20 minutes
with raw dough.
That's shorter time than you ordering pizza
and getting it delivered to you,
which probably, for me, takes about an hour.
It looks like your pizza delivery box,
and I think that that's kind of cute.
There are these little dials here.
You can kind of control what sort of pizza you're making.
You can make frozen pizza, fresh pizza.
And this little function that says keep warm,
which, maybe you make pizza and like an hour later,
this is still hot.
When you open this thing,
it looks like there's a heating element on the top,
just on half of it,
and then the bottom is another heating element
just on half of this round diameter.
So, that means that it's only touching heat
on half of the element, and it'll spin while it cooks.
Will it cook evenly, will it brown evenly?
And this looks like it's not flat,
which kinda concerns me,
because I feel like some areas will be indented,
and the browning element.
Alright, so let's see how nifty this thing is.
Let's make some pizza.
This says, do not preheat,
so I'm not gonna plug this in
until I'm ready to put the actual pan in here and cook.
Today I'm just using very plain ingredients.
Pizza dough from your local pizzeria or your supermarket.
We'll bench flour my board.
So, I am a little skeptical,
just because if it's shitty pizza, I'm not gonna eat it.
Dough in pan.
Now sauce, cheese, and of course pepperoni,
because for me, it's really important to see
how the pepperoni crisps up.
There you go.
So let's do this.
Plugging in the pizza machine.
My beautiful pizza, and close.
So, 15 minutes for fresh.
And then you have your green and red,
and right now it's on red, because it is cooking.
And right now I'm getting a little nervous,
because I just turned it on, and I see it's smoking,
and it's been less than a minute,
but I'm not gonna touch it.
It's scaring me a little bit.
What do you normally do when you wait for pizza?
I normally drink a lot of beer,
and that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
Okay, so heat light went off.
There's no music or anything,
and I'm gonna take a peek,
because I smell, oh... ooh..
I think I'm gonna pull it at this point.
This looks pretty ready to me.
So I'm just gonna taste it.
I see bubbling.
It's nice and brown.
The cheese, I feel like is a little bit
browner than I want it to be,
but for me the most important part of a good pizza
is the crust.
It sounds okay, but it's really the bottom, right?
(spatula scrapes)
Comes right off, then the bottom, crispy, definitely crispy.
Yeah, so I pulled this at 15 minutes.
Maybe it needs a little less time.
So, I would recommend checking your pizza
at like 12 minutes, 13 minutes, 14 minutes
just so you know the progress of your pizza
and maybe sometimes you want your pizza
a little bit less browned.
The thickness is a little thick,
but I think it's fine because it's still cooked through.
(slurps cheese)
That's really decent.
It's not gonna be like the pizzeria guy
that's been doing it for 30 years.
Homemade pizza, it's not the best,
but it's very decent and it will satisfy your cravings.
This would be good for a student who lives in a dorm
that doesn't have any access to an oven
and maybe wants to make pizza
in their dorm room for the friends.
It's damn good pizza.
Forty-five dollars, you'll definitely be
the coolest guy in your dorm
or on your camping trip, wherever.
I was skeptical going into it,
just because I just didn't feel
like the half heating element
was the ideal situation,
but honestly, exceeded my expectation,
and I would buy that for $45.
Would you?
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