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 vastly spectacular Gozney vary, and the second most reasonably priced behind the unique Roccbox. It joins an ever-evolving number of home pizza ovens which have remodeled our capacity to cook 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 needs 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 house for a 12-inch pie.

Can it compete with one of the best pizza ovens accessible, 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.

Transportable? Actually?

For all of the beautiful advertising and marketing photographs of the Tread within the desert, on mountains and in distant areas, it is value noting that my overview unit arrived on a full-sized wood pallet. Admittedly Gozney did provide me with each conceivable further, however 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 supreme should you’re a tailgater whose thought 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 understand that critiques editor Adrienne So has strapped pizza ovens as massive 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 anyplace with uneven floor, nonetheless, the Gozney stand is way more versatile (extra on that later).

{Photograph}: Chris Haslam