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 massively spectacular Gozney vary, and the second most inexpensive behind the unique Roccbox. It joins an ever-evolving choice of house pizza ovens which have remodeled our capability to cook dinner correct pizza—we’re speaking every little thing from Neapolitan, Chicago-style, New York and Sicilian—from the consolation of the yard.

With the Tread, Gozney needs 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 most effective pizza ovens obtainable, 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 search out out.

Moveable? Actually?

For all of the beautiful advertising and marketing 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 further, 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.”

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 needs to spend all that lengthy carrying one thing so awkward.

The pizza oven is an impressively compact unit, and ultimate for those who’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 house, the real-world logistics begin to mount.

Trying 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 in addition bigger, at 24.4 x 15.5 x 11.7 inches. That mild weight is a consideration whenever 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 must take a stand. If you happen to’re heading wherever with uneven floor, nevertheless, the Gozney stand is far more versatile (extra on that later).

{Photograph}: Chris Haslam