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Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Pizza ovens are generally at 450 to 500 degrees. They universally have stone 'floors' to maintain the temperature evenly and avoid the cooling effect of an uncooked pizza. So yes, one CAN make a bed that will cook a pizza, but you really want to print it first, then cook it.

Yes, yes. An automated pizza baker would definitely have to have separate construction and baking chambers; unless you print the bubbles in, the crust has to have time to rise at a lower temperature, and go quickly to a much higher one. (I suppose you could move the pre-heated stone to the pizza, but that sounds even more problematic.) I also seriously doubt that current 3-D technology can passably reproduce a hand-tossed and pressed crust, or even a machine-kneaded and rolled one.