Pizza press with interchangeable upper mold

A pizza press for forming and par baking a pizza crust from a quantity of pizza dough disposed in a pizza pan, comprising:

• a frame having a base portion and an upper housing portion;
• an upper mold releasably attached to said upper housing portion and defining a generally planar bottom surface;
• a lower support platen releasably attached to said base portion and defining a generally planar top surface, said bottom and top surfaces extending along horizontal, generally parallel planes;
• a handle member pivotally connected to said upper housing portion and adapted to reciprocally move said upper mold between a loading position wherein the pizza dough may be introduced into the pizza pan and a flattening position wherein the pizza dough is compressed between the bottom surface of the upper mold and the pizza pan;
• at least two retaining members slidably attached to said support platen and extending upwardly from the top surface thereof;
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• an adjustment mechanism slidably attached to said support platen for selectively moving said retaining members linearly relative the top surface as needed to allow the pizza pan to be positioned therebetween.