Cuisinart Pizza Oven with Peel & Cutter
Our Take
- In honor of Pi Day, we have a little oven just for making everyone’s favorite pie: pizza
- You can make Neapolitan thin-crust style or deep dish (with the included pan)
- You also get a cutter, a peel, and a pizza stone
- Can it make a Margherita: yes
A Pi Day Product
How to use your Cuisinart Indoor Pizza Oven
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Plug in your pizza oven and set it to preheat.
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Decide on the style of pizza you’d like to make: thin-crust Neapolitan style or deep dish.
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Stretch the dough on the floured peel (or into the included deep dish pan).
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Add sauces, cheese, and desired toppings.
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Use the peel to easily load it into the oven.
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When it’s cooked (in only 5 minutes for Neapolitan style), enjoy your delicious, fresh pizza!
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Make another pie: veggie this time, with peppers and onions.
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Put less flour than you need on the peel, causing the dough to stick.
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Shake it roughly to loosen it as you try to put it into the oven, thus shifting the cheese and the toppings.
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Remove it from the oven and realize the shredded cheese now looks like topography lines and that two slices of bell pepper have formed an X near a patch of exposed sauce like a lake.
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Understand somewhere deep inside of yourself that what you are looking at is a map of the area, and the ‘x’ marks the spot of Lonnie Vincenzo’s treasure. The personal chef of an eccentric mob boss, as legend has it, he grew tired of his work and stole the don’s wife’s most precious piece of jewelry in the dead of night–the Almonte Diamond, itself stolen by one of the mob boss’s goons from a museum as an anniversary present–and ran off. But when the boss’s men eventually tracked him down, he said he’d buried it, and took the secret of where to his grave.
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Put on your hiking boots and set off to find your fortune.
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Meet a young man out hiking and ask him why he looks so downtrodden. He’s a lowly film student, he tells you, and he has written a brilliant screenplay, but he lacks the funding to produce the project.
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Invite him along! After all, there’ll be plenty of money for both of you if you retrieve the Almonte Diamond.
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Meet another hiker along the way and ask her why she seems so sad. She was, she explains, a very talented translator, capable of reading and writing in four different languages. But an errant softball to the head has somehow altered her knowledge. She cannot recall any language beyond English, and even that comes in a bit shaky these days. There is one brain specialist capable of fixing her predicament, but she cannot afford his services, especially since she has been out of work since suffering the head trauma.
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Invite her along too! You can all split the money!
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Meet a third hiker, an old man who does not look downtrodden and who nods sagely when you tell him what you’re looking for, as if he already knew.
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Invite him to join your party as well.
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When you reach the place marked by the X and start digging, feel overcome by a strange, unnatural greed.
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Realize it has taken hold of the others as well, their eyes suddenly bloodshot and angry, and their skin gray and ragged. Or two of them, at least. The old man stands by watching.
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When you unearth the diamond, attempt to take it and run.
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Get tripped by the film student.
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Watch as he’s downed by the translator.
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Scratch, bite, and claw with these two until you eventually get hold of the diamond again.
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Look to the old man and see that he is no longer paying attention to you but instead staring off at a lake in the distance. The place marked by the exposed sauce. Of course! You know what you must do.
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Take off in a sprint towards it.
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When you get to the shores, heave the diamond as far as you can.
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Watch as an enormous snapping turtle emerges, opening its mouth and swallowing the diamond whole before returning to the dark depths of the lake.
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Turn to your companions and find them restored, their eyes clear, their skin once again healthy, their breathing ragged from exertion, and their expression confused, as if they’ve just emerged from a trance.
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Look beyond them and see the old man smile and slowly disappear. It was the ghost of Lonnie Vincenzo all along!
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Invite your new friends back to your place for some pizza.
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Realize this is the greatest treasure there is! Sharing good food with good people!
NOTE: Steps 7 through 33 are optional.