Gozney Tread Pizza Oven Review: Gorgeous 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 massively spectacular Gozney vary, and the second most reasonably priced behind the unique Roccbox. It joins an ever-evolving collection of home pizza ovens which have reworked our capability to prepare dinner correct pizza—we’re speaking every thing 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 giant handles make it simpler (and cleaner) to maneuver than most. The gas-only design can hit 932 levels Fahrenheit (500 levels Celsius) and has area for a 12-inch pie.

Can it compete with one of the best pizza ovens obtainable, and at 29.7 kilos, is it actually transportable sufficient to take with you? I spent just a few weeks each carb- and trunk-loading to search out out.

Moveable? Actually?

For all of the attractive advertising and marketing pictures of the Tread within the desert, on mountains and in distant areas, it is value noting that my evaluate unit arrived on a full-sized wood pallet. Admittedly Gozney did provide me with each conceivable additional, but it surely 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.”

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

The pizza oven is an impressively compact unit, and supreme when you’re a tailgater whose concept of wilderness is the parking zone, however when you issue within the fuel canister (they suggest 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 sort 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 mild weight is a consideration whenever you notice that opinions editor Adrienne So has strapped pizza ovens as large 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 also much cheaper than the Tread’s Venture Bag ($99) and the ovens include legs, so that you don’t have to take a stand. In case you’re heading wherever with uneven floor, nevertheless, the Gozney stand is way more versatile (extra on that later).

{Photograph}: Chris Haslam