Gozney Tread Pizza Oven Evaluate: Beautiful and Compact

Billed because the “world’s most transportable pizza oven,” the Gozney Tread is an adventure-ready, ruggedized gas-powered magnificence. It’s the smallest of the vastly spectacular Gozney vary, and the second most inexpensive behind the unique Roccbox. It joins an ever-evolving collection of dwelling pizza ovens which have reworked our potential to prepare dinner correct pizza—we’re speaking every part from Neapolitan, Chicago-style, New York and Sicilian—from the consolation of the yard.

With the Tread, Gozney desires us to take our sourdough calzone on tour. Measuring 16.5″ x 19.1″ x 12.6″, it’s undeniably compact for a completely featured pizza oven, and the 2 massive handles make it simpler (and cleaner) to maneuver than most. The gas-only design can hit 932 levels Fahrenheit (500 levels Celsius) and has house for a 12-inch pie.

Can it compete with the perfect pizza ovens out there, and at 29.7 kilos, is it actually transportable sufficient to take with you? I spent a couple of weeks each carb- and trunk-loading to seek out out.

Moveable? Actually?

For all of the beautiful advertising photographs of the Tread within the desert, on mountains and in distant places, it is price noting that my evaluation unit arrived on a full-sized picket pallet. Admittedly Gozney did provide me with each conceivable additional, nevertheless it was nonetheless fairly an eye-opening quantity of drugs for one thing billed as not simply transportable, however the “world’s most transportable pizza oven.”

{Photograph}: Chris Haslam

29.7 kilos is roughly the identical weight as an SUV tire or a typical three-year-old. Whereas not back-breakingly heavy, no one desires to spend all that lengthy carrying one thing so awkward.

The pizza oven is an impressively compact unit, and best should you’re a tailgater whose concept of wilderness is the car parking zone, however when you issue within the fuel canister (they advocate a 5-11-kilogram tank), tripod stand, pizza peel, and all the opposite accoutrements wanted to make pizza away from dwelling, the real-world logistics begin to mount.

Wanting on the competitors, the Ooni Koda 12 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is kind of a bit lighter than the Tread at 20.4 kilos, but additionally bigger, at 24.4 x 15.5 x 11.7 inches. That gentle weight is a consideration while you notice that evaluations editor Adrienne So has strapped pizza ovens as huge because the Ooni Karu 16 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) to paddleboards to take them out to islands within the center lakes.

Ooni’s carry covers are additionally less expensive than the Tread’s Enterprise Bag ($99) and the ovens include legs, so that you don’t have to take a stand. For those who’re heading wherever with uneven floor, nevertheless, the Gozney stand is rather more versatile (extra on that later).

{Photograph}: Chris Haslam