Gozney Tread Pizza Oven Evaluate: Attractive and Compact

Billed because the “world’s most moveable 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 number of dwelling pizza ovens which have reworked our capacity to cook 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 totally 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 area for a 12-inch pie.

Can it compete with the very best pizza ovens accessible, and at 29.7 kilos, is it actually moveable sufficient to take with you? I spent a couple of weeks each carb- and trunk-loading to search out out.

Moveable? Actually?

For all of the attractive advertising photos of the Tread within the desert, on mountains and in distant areas, it is price 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 moveable, however the “world’s most moveable 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 person desires to spend all that lengthy carrying one thing so awkward.

The pizza oven is an impressively compact unit, and perfect for those who’re a tailgater whose thought of wilderness is the car parking zone, however when you issue within the gasoline 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 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 understand that critiques 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. Should you’re heading anyplace with uneven floor, nevertheless, the Gozney stand is far more versatile (extra on that later).

{Photograph}: Chris Haslam