is it possible to cook pizza in an easybake oven?

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brianmanahan

brianmanahan

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i am goin to babysit my niece this weekend and she has an easybake and loves that thing. so i thought maybe i could blow her 5 year old mind by making an easybake pizza.

anyone ever give that a try? got any good recipes?
 
mcurphy

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Doubt it's possible. They don't get nearly hot enough. The heat source in the old one we had for my daughter was just a light bulb.
 
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steppinthrax

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brianmanahan said:
i am goin to babysit my niece this weekend and she has an easybake and loves that thing. so i thought maybe i could blow her 5 year old mind by making an easybake pizza.

anyone ever give that a try? got any good recipes?
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The new easy bake ovens have a slot in the side for loading a small "proprietary" dish. I doubt you will get anything bigger than a cookie in there.... Unless you have a vintage easy bake.
 
dud

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mcurphy said:
Doubt it's possible. They don't get nearly hot enough. The heat source in the old one we had for my daughter was just a light bulb.
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Agreed. Just finished a 12" and 16" pizza from scratch. Cooked them at 500 degrees and it still took 8-10 minutes to get just right. If I had a pizza oven or an Applewood fired domed pizza oven (1000 degrees) I could cook them in less than 2 minutes.

using an Easybake oven is not going to easily cook a pizza.
 
DesiPower

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Pizza generally needs 550 degrees iirc? atleast what it was set to at the Pizza Hut and Papa Johns...
 
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Mr. Pedantic

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I don't think so. The heat output is only 100W, apparently. Whereas a normal oven is about an order of magnitude greater, and even they struggle to cook a pizza properly.

It would obviously depend on how well insulated it is and how much heat it can hold before it starts leaking more than 100W, but I don't really hold much hope. I would just forget about pizza. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, apparently.
 
DrPizza

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Mr. Pedantic said:
I don't think so. The heat output is only 100W, apparently. Whereas a normal oven is about an order of magnitude greater, and even they struggle to cook a pizza properly.

It would obviously depend on how well insulated it is and how much heat it can hold before it starts leaking more than 100W, but I don't really hold much hope. I would just forget about pizza. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, apparently.
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And the rate that a normal oven dissipates heat into the environment is also an order of magnitude greater (fwiw.)

You can come close to achieving 500+ degree F temperatures with a 100W light bulb in the real world - though, probably not in an easy bake oven.

I found one source that says 477F.
 
Leros

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Just use a real oven. The fun of making pizza is rolling the dough and putting all the toppings on.
 
JulesMaximus

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Put sauce, toppings and cheese on an English muffin and cook it in the easybake. Should work fine and pizza muffins are pretty tasty too!
 
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BladeVenom

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Leros said:
Just use a real oven. The fun of making pizza is rolling the dough and putting all the toppings on.
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I agree. She can participate in everything but putting it in and taking it out of the oven. You'll also might have something worth eating for the effort.
 
mmntech

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Frozen mini pizzas with the pre-cooked crust would probably work. All you're doing is basically warming them up and melting the cheese.

Out of curiosity, did you come up with this idea on April 20th?
 
tokie

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I have a convection microwave and it does not do things like pizza well. The top cooks great, but the bottom is still uncooked.

Unless you somehow get a convection microwave with heat coming from the top and bottom then don't do it.
 
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