This smart pizza oven will help unleash your inner pizzaiolo

Partial to pizza? Most Filipinos are. What would a lazy weekend, a chill night with family, potluck or birthday parties, or reunions be like without this chewy and crusty flat bread with all your favorite toppings? It goes well with beer, soda, and bonding moments of stories and laughter slice after slice, after slice. So even if other people would say that pizza is one of the many dishes to dodge (for health reasons), it is still a staple during snacks, at parties, and surprise get-togethers. But there’s one thing you knead…or er, need to know: you can now make your own restaurant quality pizzas right at the heart of your own home. 

It doesn’t require a traditional brick oven in a sprawling garden to enjoy pizza-making, thanks to modern indoor smart ovens that are compact.  These trailblazing kitchen appliances have definitely revolutionized the art of making pizza, offering high-performance results right from your kitchen countertop.  Breville, a global leader in kitchen experiences that offers premium and innovative countertop kitchen appliances, introduces the Smart Oven™ Pizzaiolo—the world’s first domestic benchtop oven to hit 400°C and cook an authentic wood-fired style pizza in just two minutes!

The revolutionary benchtop oven

The Smart Oven™ Pizzaiolo is a compact yet powerful kitchen partner and has the capacity to replicate the three types of heat (conductive, radiant and convective) generated by those gigantic brick ovens used by Italians to create their signature Italian dished and can rival those pizzas made out of professional-grade equipment.  With the Smart Oven™ Pizzaiolo, there is no need for a visa and plane ticket so you could taste the authentic pizzas of Naples because now, you can create your own custom-made Neapolitan Pizza—complete with the perfect softness and chewiness, the right amount of puffing and char, smoky aroma, and full flavors just like how Italians do it.  This time, however, it will be right at your own kitchen…and in just two minutes!  So, imagine serving your personalized pizzas as a delightful family snack, and for those house parties that you will host, be ready to be thrilled because your home cooked pizza will truly hog the spotlight. 

Entrenched in this smart oven’s DNA is the Element iQ system’s algorithms that can steer power to where and when it’s needed to achieve the optimum cooking performance. Innovative cavity design utilizing sensors, PID temperature control and optimized deflector technology, these adjusts which heating elements are on and the power of each, to ensure your chosen pizza is cooked to perfection.  This system also mimics the ideal baking environment for New York, Pan, Thin & Crispy and Frozen pizzas.

It also features a conductive heat for base char control and one-touch programs that showcases optimized time/speeds to produce the tastiest results.   Its intense radiant heat is evenly controlled by Breville’s patent pending heating elements so there is no need to rotate food while cooking. Heat intensifying parabolic reflectors maximize the efficiency of the top heating elements by reflecting the energy onto the crust and the integrated deck to door design moves the pizza closer to the elements and makes it easy to load and unload.  For other pizza styles, inner element dynamic switching ensures that toppings, cheese and dough are evenly browned.  When it comes to heat retention and safety, this smart oven features a combination of double-pane heat resistant front window and multi-material insulation surrounding the heat chamber, ensuring the extreme temperatures remain inside the oven cavity while keeping the outside surfaces as cool as possible.

The Smart Oven™ Pizzaiolo also takes pride in its convective heat that benefits baked toppings. To achieve that wood fired and Neapolitan style pizzas, its optimized deflector shield has been designed to protect your fragile toppings from intense heat while reflecting radiant heat towards the crust, resulting in a perfectly leopard spotted crust which most Pinoy pizza lovers prefer.

Project Pizza Masterclass

To prove all of the Smart Oven™ Pizzaiolo’s remarkable features, Breville Philippines, in partnership with the Center for Culinary Arts (CCA) Manila, recently gathered media personalities and influencers in a Pizza masterclass that uncovered their inner pizzaiolo skills.  The session was headlined by Chef Ram Morales who held a pizza-making demonstration.  “I’m the co-Founder, Managing partner, and head Pizzaiolo of Pomodoro Pizza and I have been working with pizzas since 2014,” he said.  With him was Chef Chad Joseph Datu, Breville Philippines’ Corporate Chef who plays a key role in culinary innovation, brand collaboration, and promotion of the brand’s premium kitchen appliances in workshops and culinary events.

According to Chef Ram, a good pizza starts with a perfect pizza dough: “To make the dough from scratch at home, you should first decide on the hydration, and you go as high as 75%.  Then choose your kind of flour and add yeast and salt to the flour ratio, decide on how long the fermentation will be.”  He then proceeded on doing a demo about how to prep the dough before placing his chosen toppings. Chef Ram made both savory and sweet pizzas using the Smart Oven™ Pizzaiolo, noting that apart from understanding the type of dough, the thickness of the crust, the temperature of the oven is most crucial. Fortunately, Breville’s Smart Oven™ Pizzaiolo is the world’s first domestic benchtop oven to hit 400 degrees Celsius, and it will certainly help every homecook achieve the perfect pizza every time.

All participants of the Pizza Masterclass were given special Breville aprons and were challenged to make their own personalized savory or dessert pizzas using various ingredients at the table—from vegetables, herbs, meats, and cheeses, to candies, chocolate spreads, fruits, and whipped cream.  All kinds of pizzas were made including vegetarian, heart-shaped sweet pizzas, meat overload, calzone, and the results did not only showcase each person’s character and preference, but it also unleashed each participant’s inner pizzaiolos. What made the event exciting was having a first-hand ‘eureka’ moment that, indeed, Breville’s Smart Oven™ Pizzaiolo makes the perfect Neapolitan pizza in just two minutes! Participants brought their personally made pizzas to share with their families and left the venue with stomachs and hearts that are full.

Restaurant quality pizza right in the comfort of your home

More than just creating Neapolitan Pizzas, the Pizzaiolo is also perfect for crafting the best homemade New York Pizza, Deep Dish Pizza, and Thin and Crispy Style Bar Pizza with its smart preset cooking functions.  The oven’s Element IQ® system helps achieve this by steering power to where heat is needed to achieve optimum cooking, even for those who are just starting with the kitchen and hosting home parties in general. 

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