Hamilton Beach 31700 Pizza Maker, 12 Inch Pizza Cooker, Red

I really like the way the pizza maker cooks pizza. The turn table helps brown and cook evenly. The timer is always accurate. The levels of temperature are easy to use. I follow along with manual booklet it tells me what number to cook fresh dough or frozen. I can make other items in this pizza maker like cookies biscuits, hot dogs I will follow the manual instructions. Easy clean up I cleaned turntable pan with soap and water. I thought the price was a little expensive but I had to have this pizza maker. I have owned one like this years ago and love it enough to buy another one. I like that it is lightweight it's easy to carry and the window on the cover is great to see how items are cooking.

Nice way to cook the pizza. I got tired of waiting for the oven and the struggle of cooking 2 pizzas at once. My only complaints are the tray could fit in there a little better, it is a tad awkward until you get used to it; and the pizza might take a little longer than in the oven, but the trade off is no preheating time and no chance of burning. I went and ordered a 2nd one. I also use it to cook chicken patties.Update: Both pizza makers have quit after a year and will not rotate or heat up. Good pizza maker, but not sure if I will get a new one. I did try to buy another one from Amazon, but when I plugged it in smoke came out of it and produced a foul smell, so it went back to Amazon. I contacted Hamilton Beach and they honored the limited warranty on the one that was still under warranty and offered a discount on the other one, so I was able to get both replaced, but one had a funny smell when I pulled it out of the box and smoke came out of it when I plugged it in. Fortunately Hamilton Beach offered to replace that one at no cost to me.Update 2: Beware smoking appliance!Each replacement Hamilton Beach has sent me produces smoke when plugged in and heated up. They asked to send it back for a quality evaluation which they never gave the results for until I asked and then said that the appliance worked as designed. It's designed to produce smoke? But they were happy to replace the appliance again after I cover the shipping charge.

And lots of other things. We particularly like using it to prepare frozen battered fish for our fish tacos. It works for lots of stuff BUT BEWARE! This is our 4th one. If you make two pizza's in a row it will likely blow the fuse that is impossible to replace inside the unit. That's why we have two on hand. Well worth the money and easy to use...

This appliance is wonderful. We use it 3-5 days a week. My son cooks his pizza to perfection, my daughter uses it to make nachos, and hubby has used it to make nachos, grilled cheese sandwiches (and other grilled sandwiches), reheat take out, and whatever else he can think of. I bought mainly for the kids to be able to heat frozen pizzas in the summer for lunch, but my family uses it more for making other things besides pizza. It only takes minutes and we don't have to wait for the oven to heat up. If you are buying it exclusively for pizza then have no fear. We have made frozen pizza, take and bake pizza, and home made pizza all with great results. I also like that when the timer goes off so does the heat, so if you are out of the room or otherwise distracted your food will not burn. The heat plate is easy to clean, however when we make anything besides pizza or sandwiches we do line it with foil. I have owned it for 5 1/2 months with out any problems. To tell the truth if it went belly up tomorrow I would pay the money to get a new one. My kids are teenagers, however I think a child as young as 7 or 8 could use with little training. My daughter had a group of friends over last week and she made a bunch of pizza rolls, it took half the time of cooking in the oven and were more crispy on the outside than if heated in the microwave. I really like the red color and the machine heats food from the top and bottom, but the top plate does not actually touch the food. I paid around $50.00, well worth the price.

Update, gave a second one a try and it failed in the same way after about 30 uses.....garbage investment, First one lasted almost 4 months then it quit., second one lased a little bit longer. Wouldn't turn or heat up. Must of burned out the relay that is Chinese designed to operate right at the operating current.. In the 4 months I used it 30 times or more at an average of 15 minutes. Thats about 7 to 8 hours use total run time.You can use it for a lot more than pizza. Works great with battered shrimp, fish sticks, chicken strips, frozen chicken fried steaks, egg roles, frozen french fries, frozen onion rings, corn dogs, making cookies, heating tortillas, etc. etc. all without heating up the kitchen. Kicks off when it times out. NOTE: You can also cook larger things like frozen breaded chicken strips by propping the lid open with a table spoon.I am ordering another to see if I just got a weak one or if its typical Chinese junk. It will be 1 star if it doesn't last a year.People tha are 5 starring this appliance probably gave rating a week after they received it.