pizza oven – The Interiors Addict

Get restaurant quality pizzas at home

Don’t even get me started on my love of pizza. If I could eat that and pasta every day I would be one happy woman. But for cost and arguably more importantly health reasons, that’s not really a viable option… or is it?!

Introducing Breville’s Food Thinkers’ pizza recipe collection (all available online for free!), which features 14 unique and delicious ideas from Australian stars of the pizza world, including 2014 World Pizza Champion Johnny Di Francesco from 400 Gradi Melbourne and celebrity chef Pete Evans.

Cooked using the Breville Crispy Crust stone baked pizza oven (I want one of these so bad!) all pizzas can be made in minutes, with toppings ranging from: the classic Margherita by Johnny di Francesco, sweet potato with Spanish onion and goat’s cheese by Justin North of Hotel Centennial, Sydney, a paleo chilli prawn pizza with salsa verde from Pete Evans, and grilled zucchini, salami and mozzarella by Roberto Taffuri from Cavallino, Terrey Hills.

As domestic ovens don’t reach the required temperature, it is near to impossible to make a perfect pizza at home. Yet with the Crispy Crust stone baked pizza oven, which reaches temperature highs of 350°C (compared to an oven’s 240°C) it can mimic the unique cooking environment of a traditional brick pizza oven.

The Crispy Crust stone baked pizza oven makes it easy to cook authentic pizza at home in as little as five minutes, promising delicious pizza without the fast food nasties every time. RRP $169.95.

It’s in my DNA to be a pizza fanatic (yes I’m quarter Italian can’t you tell from my ghostly white olive skin?!) so when Breville asked me if I’d like to get ‘hot & crispy with Pete Evans’ (their words not mine), I wasn’t going to say no.

What ‘hot and crispy’ turned out to mean was cooking pizza with Breville’s Crispy Crust stone baked pizza oven. First, My Kitchen Rules judge Pete demonstrated, then we attempted to copy. All up we made two pizzas: a chilli prawn, then the more indulgent pear and frangipane.

Using the Crispy Crust we were able to cook our pizza at a whopping 350 degrees, meaning you could get the crispy crusts that are impossible to achieve in a regular household oven where the maximum temperature is in the 200s.

The Crispy Crust also features a viewing window, which allows you to monitor the pizza without opening the lid and losing heat. It also automatically adjusts the temperature of the oven, depending on your pizza base’s thickness.

The Crispy Crust is a 12-inch ceramic pizza stone that has dual heating elements, top and bottom.

For more information.

If you love the latest kitchen gadgets too, don’t forget our appliances section.