The Villaware "Pizza Express Napoli" pizza cooking oven promises to turn out "pizzeria quality" pies in with 5 minutes of cooking time. Surprisingly, it actually does a nice job. The bottom part of the cooker is stone, with a heating element below it, and the lid has an exposed heating element.
You preheat the thing and then slide the pie onto the cooking surface using two wooden paddles. Close the lid and check it in 4 to 5 minutes. I was skeptical, but the thing actually works nicely. We got a pie with a nice crisp crust, particularly on the bottom (which I have not always had great success doing in the oven, even using a stone.) The cooking pic below with the pie on the gadget is was taken about two minutes before it was fully done.
Best of all, Mrs. Feral bought this thing new-in-box for $10 at the thrift store.














 
 

 

Interesting......never saw one of those before.




We made two more pies tonight with the thing above.......I honestly couldn't tell they weren't from the local pizza joint. I've never been able to get that from the oven, so we're pretty pleased about that.



 

I wish that were the case here, but sadly it's not.



Mrs. Feral makes the dough and we use our home-canned pizza sauce. The rest of it is supermarket mozzarella and pepperoni. I sprinkle a little of Penzey's pizza spice onto the sauce, top with cheese and toppings, then sprinkle a little Turkish oregano on top.