Ambiano The Everything Pizza Grill

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EDITOR’S NOTE: We bought and reviewed this pizza grill in 2024. It’s returning to Aldi the week of October 15th, 2025, for the same price of $29.99. See our update at the end of this post about how this has performed for us during the year we’ve owned and used it. 

I was at a lunch gathering recently where someone mentioned how there are a lot of small kitchen appliances these days that have the capability to cook multiple different foods. Consider the air fryer. Or the electric griddle. There are also pressure cookers, the most popular version being Instant Pots. These can be useful if you don’t want to heat up your house by turning on the oven, or they’re helpful if you need to cook in a place that may not have a full kitchen.

Aldi has sold many popular multi-purpose small kitchen appliances over the years, and those products include air fryers, pressure cookers, electric griddles, and more.

This week, Aldi introduced a new way to cook without having to turn on your oven. It’s called the Ambiano The Everything Pizza Grill. It has a round cooking surface and looks like an electric griddle with a lid that also gets hot.

It’s a knockoff of a Chefman Everything Maker and Pizza Oven. The name-brand Chefman makes a lot more than just pizza — hence the “Everything” in the name — and the Aldi grill does the same. The Aldi grill comes with several recipes for things such as chocolate chip cookie cakes, grilled cheese sandwiches, baked sweet potatoes, fritattas, and marinated chicken breasts.

I was sold. I bought this grill at Aldi on the day it arrived in stores, and I was eager to try it out at home.

The Ambiano The Everything Pizza Grill is an Aldi Find, so it’s only in stores for a short time. Each store gets one shipment, and after that sells out, it’s gone unless Aldi decides to bring it back later. Aldi does not offer online ordering for products that are out of stock at your local store. I showed up at my local Aldi store within 10 to 15 minutes after opening on the day the ad went into effect, and there were only three of these grills on the shelf, so keep in mind stores may not have received large numbers of these.

The Ambiano pizza grill cost $29.99 at the time of publication. I found the name-brand Chefman on sale on Amazon for $50, down from $60.

We purchased the grill for review and spent time testing it with several kinds of foods, as you’ll see below.

Here’s more info on the Aldi Everything Pizza Grill, according to the box:

• 1500 W
• Features adjustable temperature settings, from 225 degrees to 425 degrees
• Includes indicator lights
• Features a wrap-around cord for easy storage
• Offers a versatile cooking surface
• Cooking surface is nonstick on top and bottom
• Cooking surface measures 12 inches in diameter

The grill comes with a three-year warranty serviced by Wachsmuth & Krogmann, a common supplier of Aldi products and a common Aldi warranty service provider. For warranty service, you can email help@myproduct.care or call 888-367-7373.

Unboxing and Operating the Grill:

Upon opening the box, you’ll find the grill itself along with an instruction manual that includes recipes, and are there warranty sheets tucked in the box as well (one in English and one in Spanish).

The grill is ready to use right out of the box. All it needs is a wipe-down with a soft damp cloth or sponge. As for cleaning the grill after using it, you also just wipe it down. Avoid using abrasive materials to clean the grill, and you absolutely should not immerse the grill in water.

To use, place the grill on a heat-resistant, flat, stable surface in a well-ventilated area. Don’t use it under an overhang such as a cupboard. The grill should be placed at least 10-12 inches away from walls.

The first time you use the grill, it may give off a slight odor and you might see some smoke coming off the grill plate. The manual states this is normal. The odor and smoke will go away with use.

To turn the grill on, you simply plug it into an outlet, and leave the lid closed while it preheats. It automatically will begin heating, and you can turn the temperature knob on the top to adjust the temperature higher or lower. Let it preheat for 5 minutes before opening it and putting food on it, and then closing the top again. The manual recommends not overloading the surface with food. Also, it’s recommended to use nylon, plastic, or wooden utensils to avoid scratching the nonstick cooking surface.

When you’re done cooking, turn the temperature dial to 0 and unplug the grill from the outlet. Always make sure the unit is set to the 0 position when not in use and when unplugging from the outlet. Wait until the grill has completely cooled down before wiping it clean.

Our Experience with the Grill:

We initially tried making a couple of pizzas in the pizza grill. It seemed like the obvious thing to do. I bought a small frozen margherita-style pizza from Aldi along with a 12-inch take-and-bake deli pizza from Aldi. I also later made some eggs and sausage patties on the grill.

Most of the time, you’ll be cooking with the top closed on this grill, such as when you cook pizza, steak, chicken, and other things that take a little while to cook. The top grill plate does get hot, so keeping it closed will help to cook food faster. For foods like eggs that cook quickly and need close monitoring, we left the top open while we cooked.

The manual has a table with approximate cooking times and temperatures for a variety of foods, including boneless chicken breasts, steak, fish filets, burgers, veggies, bacon, pancakes, eggs, and, of course, pizza.

The manual also says if you’re grilling veggies, fish, or lean meat, you should spray the grill surface with cooking spray. If you’re cooking meat with any amount of fat or if the food has been marinated, you don’t need to use cooking spray. I didn’t use any cooking spray with the pizzas and they had no problems with sticking.

The manual says to cook a frozen thin crust pizza for 11-13 minutes at 400-425 degrees. I set the pizza grill to 400, which is what the pizza box instructions both said to do.

The fine print in the manual says frozen food should always be thawed before cooking it on the grill, but you don’t typically thaw a frozen pizza before baking it, so I put my frozen Aldi pizza on the grill unthawed and it turned out fine.

Both the frozen pizza and the refrigerated take-and-bake pizza took longer to cook than what the grill instructions recommend, and they took a few minutes longer than the pizza box directions indicated. They didn’t have to cook for a lot longer, though. The extra cooking time was in the 3- to 5-minute range.

We did test the limits of the grill in terms of how big of a pizza it can handle. The grill surface is exactly 12 inches in diameter. The take-and-bake pizza we cooked in it was also 12 inches. It was a tight fit, but it worked. It helped that the take-and-bake pizza was not frozen, so it was easy to tuck the soft edges in wherever we needed to in order to close the lid. Keep in mind that many Aldi take-and-bake pizzas are 16 inches and will not fit on this pizza grill.

Both pizzas I cooked came out fantastic. The cheese gets bubbly in the center, and the bottom of the crust gets crispy in a way that everyone in my family really liked. The crust edges don’t seem to get golden brown like they would in an oven, but they were crispy. We liked how the bottom crusts came out so much that we will definitely be putting this pizza grill to use cooking pizzas in the future.

A few days later, I also tried making over easy eggs, omelets, and chicken sausage patties on the grill. Be sure to use cooking spray with eggs, or they will stick. (Trust us.) Things took a little longer to cook on the grill versus in a skillet on the stovetop, but they came out fine.

We’ll continue to put this grill to the test with some other foods like grilled cheese sandwiches, and maybe that tempting chocolate chip cookie cake. My husband quickly noticed the manual has temperature and time recommendations for burgers, so those will probably be next. We’ll update this review with any potential future developments.

The Verdict:

The Ambiano The Everything Pizza Grill is a dupe of a Chefman Everything Maker and Pizza Oven, and the Aldi grill sells for a fraction of the price of the name brand. This small countertop appliance cooks everything, including pizza, grilled cheese sandwiches, eggs, bacon, burgers and hot dogs, pancakes, and even chocolate chip cookie cakes.

We bought this and put it through the paces, and we can tell you it is essentially an electric griddle with a top that also gets hot. It’s versatile and easy to use, and we love how pizza crusts turn out perfectly crispy with this. As a bonus, the manual includes a variety of recipes.

If you eat a lot of pizza or are looking for ways to avoid turning on the oven and heating up the house, or if you want to free up space in your oven to cook other foods at the same time, definitely give this grill a look.

UPDATE (10/9/2025) — We’ve owned this for just over a year now, and it’s one of our favorite ways to cook a pizza. We love how the crust comes out. We also tried cooking homemade turkey burgers on it during a day when the weather was bad for outdoor grilling, and the burgers came out great. We primarily use this for pizza, though. It’s a great little countertop appliance and we recommend it if you eat a lot of pizza.