In a hurry for pizza?  Get ready for the Lamborghini of pizza ovens. The BLACK+DECKER 5-Minute Pizza Oven and Snack Maker (Model P300S) is the ultimate speed demon. It’s called the 5-Minute Pizza Maker, but we’ve had pizzas completely done in as quick as 3-minutes. Now that’s what you need for a hungry crew!

Fastest Pizza Oven

You can cook both fresh and frozen pizzas with the same speed.  How’s that you say?  With dual heating elements, top and bottom, this baby can heat up to over 625°F.  We always let the oven preheat for five minutes or more so the ceramic tray is good and hot. Then, sliding the pizza in, you can literally watch it begin browning in less than 60-seconds.

The glass door in front is very helpful, as the pizzas will be done before you know it. Even if the frozen pizza box says it will take 20-22 minutes, don’t dare let it stay in that long.  Frozen pizzas come out with a nice crispy crust and well-melted cheese in well under 5 minutes.

 

According to the manufacturer, the trick to perfect pizza is rapid cooking combined with intense heat. This oven delivers both.

Another benefit is that the pizza oven is insulated inside, so the exterior case doesn’t get any hotter than your standard toaster oven.  My guess is that the insulated interior plus the 1575 watts of power is what enables the intense heat.

The one caution, is that this oven only takes up to a 12-inch pizza – so those extra-large 15” jobs just won’t fit unless you trim the edges and square them off.

The oven has settings for five different kinds of dishes:

• Deep dish pizza
• Rising crust pizza
• Regular or thin crust pizza
• Frozen snacks
• Baking

Depending on the selection, the oven’s temperature is adjusted accordingly.

Regular and thin crust pizzas should be done in under five minutes.

Frozen snacks like potato skins, jalapeno poppers, chicken nuggets or fish sticks should all be done in four to five minutes as well. That’s roughly half the time shown on the boxes.

Rising crust pizza and frozen meal pockets will probably take 10 – 14 minutes depending on toppings.

The deep dish pizza setting turns the temp down to 375° so the dough and the toppings will be done throughout and takes longer – expect 35 to 45 minutes.

Baking Oven

With the “Bake” setting, the oven operates similar to a regular oven at 375°, enabling you to cook cookies, croissants, cinnamon rolls, pot pies or lasagna. Don’t preheat the ceramic tray when baking, or your cookies might turn out too crisp.

If some snack fillings spill out and bake onto the ceramic tray, no worries.  The ceramic tray can be placed right into your dishwasher after it cools.

What’s in the box?

The oven comes with a ceramic 12” square cooking tray that slides into the unit.

Slide-out crumb tray.

A heat-resistant handle can be stored on either side of the unit, and grabs the ceramic cooking tray while still hot to safely remove it from the oven.

A use and care manual.

A great 5-minute pizza cook book with recipes for not only many great looking pizzas, but snack pizzas, cookiezza, caramelized apple pizza, bruschetta, heated subs and caramel corn snack mix.

If you are a pizza aficionado, you’ll certainly come to think of this as one of your best kitchen appliances. Check out all the details at BLACK+DECKER’s website.