Description
Is the pizza the point, or is it one of two jobs?
Combination appliances are usually a compromise, and it is worth working out which half of this one you actually want. The Blackstone 8013 is a countertop electric oven with a 14 inch rotating steel plate for pizza, and a supplied baking tray plus a trivet that let the same cavity work as an air fryer. Those two functions are not in tension the way they often are in combination products, because both want high heat and both benefit from a compact cavity. But they do compete for the same 20.67 by 19.09 inch patch of counter.
The rotating plate is the feature that justifies buying this rather than a general purpose countertop oven. Home ovens cook a pizza unevenly because the heat is not symmetrical, which is why people open the door halfway through and spin the pizza by hand. A plate that turns continuously removes that entirely, and it removes it in a way no toaster oven does.
Fourteen inches is a real size. That takes a standard supermarket frozen pizza without trimming and a homemade base rolled to a normal diameter. It also sets the outer limit: a 16 inch pizza will not fit, and neither will a large rectangular tray.
The specifications that decide it, and the ones the listing does not publish
Here is the significant problem with this record, and it needs stating before anything else. There is no wattage figure anywhere in the listing. There is no voltage. There is no temperature range and no maximum temperature. For an electric pizza oven, those are the three most important numbers, because they determine both whether it can reach pizza temperature and what circuit it needs. The power source field simply reads electric. A countertop oven of this size will typically draw somewhere between 1,200 and 1,800 watts, which is most or all of a 15 amp circuit, but that is a category expectation rather than something Blackstone states here. Get the wattage and the temperature range from the manufacturer before ordering, and plan the outlet accordingly.
What is published is a five foot cord, a touchscreen front panel for setting temperature and timer, a glass drop down door, a removable crumb tray, and an assembled weight of 27.1 pounds. The weight is the number that tells you this is a fixed installation rather than something that goes in a cupboard between uses.
The crumb tray is not a minor feature
Anything cooked on a rotating plate sheds. Semolina, cornmeal, cheese that runs off the edge and dislodged toppings all end up underneath, and on a plate that turns, debris underneath is what eventually fouls the mechanism. A tray that slides out to be emptied is what keeps that from becoming a repair. It is the single most important maintenance feature on a rotating oven and the listing is right to call it out.
Living with it: the indoor and outdoor claim, cleaning, and a very small review sample
Blackstone states the oven can be used both indoors and outdoors, and explains that its electric nature makes it suitable indoors while the five foot cord can reach outdoor plug points. That is worth reading carefully rather than at face value. An appliance being electric does make it usable indoors. It does not make it weatherproof. Nothing in the listing describes any weather sealing, an ingress protection rating, or an outdoor rated cord or plug. Using any indoor rated appliance outdoors should be on a dry surface, under cover, on a protected outlet with a ground fault interrupter, and it should come back inside afterward. Leaving it out is how water gets into an appliance that was never sealed against it.
Cleaning splits into two jobs. The crumb tray handles what falls below the plate. The glass door and the cavity walls collect the fat that air frying aerosolizes, and that needs wiping while warm rather than once it has baked on. The steel pizza plate itself should be scraped rather than soaked, since it is a cooking surface with a mechanism underneath it.
The included components are the oven, a baking tray and a trivet. The trivet is what raises food off the tray so air can circulate underneath, which is what makes air frying work rather than roasting. Without it, the tray is a solid surface and the underside of anything on it will steam.
One figure needs stating plainly. This listing carries just 5 ratings at an average of 4.2. That is not enough to tell you anything at all about reliability or real world performance, and it reflects a product that first became available in October 2024. Anyone buying now is an early purchaser rather than someone following a track record. The specification table also carries a size field reading OTHER, which is a placeholder rather than information.
When a different oven is the better answer
If pizza is a production job rather than an occasional one, a dedicated commercial oven with a published temperature range and a real thermostat is the right tool. The Wisco 421 publishes its electrical figures and its thermostat range plainly, which this one does not, and the direct comparisons sit in the countertop pizza oven category.
If air frying is really the main job and pizza is occasional, a purpose built air frying oven will do it better and take less counter. The Ninja SP101 Foodi folds away when idle, and the Kalorik MAXX offers two independent zones. If you want one appliance to replace the wall oven for most weekday cooking, the Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro is the more capable general purpose choice. The rest of the crisping options are under air fryers.
Who should buy it and who should not
Buy it if pizza is a regular event, the counter can give up roughly 21 by 19 inches permanently, and you want the rotation handled for you rather than opening a door to spin a pizza by hand. A 14 inch rotating steel plate with a removable crumb tray, a glass door and a touchscreen panel is a coherent design for that, and the tray and trivet make the air frying side genuinely usable rather than nominal.
Skip it if you want one appliance to also toast and bake, or if you need to know what you are plugging in before you buy it. Before ordering, get the wattage, voltage and temperature range from Blackstone, because none of them appear in this listing, and treat the indoor and outdoor claim as meaning portable rather than weatherproof. Note also that only 5 ratings exist for this product so far.
