This Pizza Oven Makes Much More Than Just Pies

Gozney may not be a household name with home cooks just yet, but the brand has earned quite a reputation with professional chefs and restauranters. Its original product, the Roccbox, was a movable, home-cook-friendly pizza oven. It was a massive hit on Indiegogo — a crowdfunding platform meant to connect prospective buyers with potential sellers — raising $1,200,000 in 30 days. That largely went to fulfilling orders, and it would, in turn, propel Roccbox and Gozney to new heights, putting its ovens into the homes, backyards, campsites, alleyways, and beyond of more novice culinary talents. Now, after a detour into bigger, more commercial-ready designs, Gozney is returning to its roots with the Tread oven, a go-anywhere, cook-anything model built to get to temperature quickly and cool down just as fast.

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Between the Roccbox and the Tread, the company’s compact ovens became less, well, compact. First came the Dome, a versatile, high-performance outdoor-only oven meant for more serious chefs. It ran on both wood and gas fuels, meaning you could experiment with the raw power (and pleasure) of cooking with wood or opt for convenience (gas). Then came a gas-only version, which offered the same wood-fired-style flame but without the difficulty of maintaining a live fire. Then, Gozney found its sweet spot, it seemed: the Arc and Arc XL — one of our favorite pizza ovens — which married the compactness of the Roccbox with the robustness of the Dome. It could fit into well-assembled outdoor kitchens or rove from outdoor space to outdoor space. It could still be moved if you really wanted to take it to go.

The Tread, however, with its aluminum and steel body, 12-millimeter (0.5 inches) removable cordierite stone, and lightweight layers of insulation, moves with ease — and, actually, that’s what it’s meant to do. It can live in your backyard or on your back deck, but it can also be taken to a remote campsite, to the shores of some isolated beach, or set up on the sidewalk outside your buddy’s house. With the Tread, you can take not only your pizza but your pizza oven to go, too.

Gozney Tread Portable Pizza Oven

It’s Simple and Easy to Use — Even If You’ve Never Made a Pizza Before

I am no pizza expert. I have friends who grew up working in pizza shops, and I’ve seen just about every pizza-making YouTube video ever produced, but I can’t, for the life of me, imagine having to crank out perfectly round pizzas on repeat. Luckily, the Gozney Tread is very forgiving and super easy to use. 

Before your first fire, set the oven in a fire-safe zone, preferably outside and away from other flammable materials, place in the burner guard, and attach the 1.2m gas hose and regulator. And because this thing runs on propane, the initial set up couldn’t be easier, given you’ve ever grilled before. To ignite, simply twist a knob found on the righthand side of the oven until you hear clicking and then hear the combustion — just like a gas stove. 

On your first fire, you have to let the oven cure, which basically means kick on the fire, let it heat up on low for a half-hour before turning up the lateral burner — which mirrors the type of arced flame you see in a wood-fired oven. 

What you do from here is up to you. Whether you hand-toss a perfectly circular pie or come out with something oval- or square-shaped, it doesn’t matter much. The Tread gets up to 950 degrees Fahrenheit in 15 minutes and can cook a small pizza in basically a minute. Your first few might burn, but the beauty of this oven is that it’s easy to maintain once on — just make sure you have enough propane. Therefore, you can keep the pizzas coming until you feel content (or full).

Unlike Other Pizza Ovens, You Can Take It To Go

You can take the Tread pretty much anywhere. We were limited because of the weather — it was still the tail end of winter where we were when the Tread first came out — that’s not to say a more adventurous chef (or non-chef) wouldn’t test its limits. Just ask pro skier Sage Cattabriga-Alosa. “The Tread is the ultimate in road trip fueled cooking,” he says “It provides seamless setup and top-level cooking in a streamlined package, perfectly designed for on-the-go use and versatility.” For someone who regularly summits, and subsequently nosedives down, mountains, that’s quite the compliment.

I found it was easy to lift on my own, but it might be too much for my fiancée or one of her friends to conquer themselves. With or without the handy carrying bag, the Tread offers two spots for hands atop it, making it easy to tag team the oven out to your desired cooking site with or without the stand in tow.

It’s Compact But Not Too Small 

While it could be a bit cumbersome for someone who can’t easily lift 30 pounds, that doesn’t mean the oven is oversized. It’s the perfect dimensions for a personal pizza or a thinner pie meant to be split between two or three people alongside other snacks. Plus, I never felt constrained when I needed to rotate a pizza, put a pizza in, or pull one out. You have plenty of space to maneuver in there, especially if you’re using Gozney-made tools, like the Venture Turning Peel or Placement Peel.

It Makes Open-Fire Cooking Easy

While I obviously made my fair share of pies during the testing period, I was frankly equally excited to try, well, basically anything else: chicken wings, steak, dessert, potatoes, you name it. Sure, there’s a learning curve when it comes to cooking with an oven that gets two times hotter than the one in your kitchen, but for those that love wood-fired food, extra-charred potatoes or a good steak with a significant crust on it, you’ll find that the Tread almost beats cooking over charcoal — at least it did for me.

Some may look at it and just see pizza, and therefore feel like it’s not worth the investment. But the Tread, and all of the Gozney ovens, for that matter, offer a whole lot more. The Tread just does it in a slighter, more portable package. 

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