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But It And Try It: Pizzazz Pizza Cooker

It claims to be a fast an easy way to bake your favorite pizza claiming "freezer to perfect in seconds." Let's see if it works.

With four kids and one on the way the Howards' Rocklin home can appear busy and hectic.

Every Friday night is pizza night in this house. They usually use the good old oven but today I give them my Presto Pizzazz pizza oven.

So with one of the kids, Devin, reading the directions we go to work. We'll compare by cooking two pizzas, one in the oven, one with the Pizzazz. After all, it says right on the box: "While ordinary ovens are heating, you're eating."

We preheat the regular oven, at the same time we put our frozen pizza on the Pizzazz tray, set the timer, and around it goes.

The Pizzazz has two electric heating elements, one on top, one on the bottom to cook the crust.

Finally, about 10 minutes in our regular oven is preheated.

So we put in our second pizza and a few minutes later we've got bubbling cheese and pepperoni with our Pizzazz oven.

Just when the kids start to get restless about 24 minutes in, our Pizzazz pizza is cooked.

Mom slices it up. Now it's time for the taste test.

Everyone seems to like it, and sure enough, the pizza in the oven is still cooking. Eight minutes go by and that pizza is finally done. So how does it compare?

So Pizzas works, but mom isn't sure she'd buy it because she says she doesn't have the space. And, with a family of this size, they say they'd need multiple cookers to cook the multiple pizzas they'd eat.

I bought it at amazon.com and paid $40 plus shipping.

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