Unless you’re grabbing a single slice on the streets of New York, pizza isn’t a particularly travel-friendly food — especially not if you’re making it from scratch. However, Gozney’s Tread pizza oven could change that, so long as you’re a relatively intrepid sort of person.
Whereas the vast majority of home pizza ovens have a set-it-up-and-leave-it format, this one is explicitly designed to accompany you from place to place, making it ideal for campers, glampers, overlanders and RV enthusiasts. That alone makes it unique in its class, granting it the self-proclaimed title of “world’s most portable pizza oven.”
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At nearly 30 pounds, it’s hefty, yet manageable. And that size comes with some profound benefits, such as a genuine stone cooking surface for perfectly baked pies of up to 12 inches in diameter (it can also fit cast iron pans in its generous opening for other campground meals) and a ruggedized aluminum and steel construction that can bear the risks of travel.
Since it runs on propane, finding fuel anywhere within spitting distance of civilization is an easy prospect. And, for those worried about that fuel affecting its cooking abilities, worry not; the oven’s revolutionary lateral gas burners recreate the same cooking conditions as wood fire.
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