Pizza Pronto but only if its Thin

Category: Review on Breville BOV350 Pizza Pronto Pan

Posted by: 31-Dec-2008

Strengths: 

Weaknesses: Can't add much pizza topping

I was really dissapointed with Breville for releasing this poor attempt at a Pizza Oven.
I thought Breville made good appliances, but in this case I wonder how much testing they actually did before they released it.

The main problem is that there isn't enough room between the pizza stone and the safety grill to fit an average pizza and dont even think about trying one of the gourmet pizzas that are in the little booklet that comes with it.

2nd problem is that it burns the base of the Pizza, it recommends to preheat the Pronto with the stone in which left the pizza base burnt black.
Even when putting the stone in cold with no preheating the base was still almost too crunchy (Pre-Made Bought Pizza Base).

3rd Problem is that it says its easy to clean, but it isn't very easy if cheese gets stuck to the safety mesh above the Pizza or if melted cheese runs off and onto the pizza stone and down the side into the bottom section.

I recommend just using the good old pizza pan in a normal oven or maybe with a pizza stone in a normal oven.