A $97 Pizza Oven?

[Sid P]

Yes sports fans, Walmart’s Expert Grill charcoal fired pizza oven is now marked down to $97. It’s not making me regret my Roccbox purchase, but if you just want to dip your toe in the pizza oven pool it appears to be a perfectly viable option. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Expert-Gr...0?athbdg=L1300

[CaptainMike]

Hey Sid, do you have the wood burning attachment for your Roccbox? I'm thinking about getting it.

[Sid P]

No, I’m just using gas for now, but I’m looking forward to your review

[Sid P]

I did hear that the first release didn’t work very well. Make sure you get the 2.0.

[CaptainMike]

Thanks for the advice!

[gcdmd]

I'll be heading to Wally's in a couple of hours, right after my 0900 doctor's appointment.

[Sid P]

I’m looking forward to your feedback.

[FireMan]

Geez, those pizzas look as big as his hand. The oven not much bigger. Are we talkin miniature here?

[Sid P]

He’s apparently a giant. This is a 15" oven.

[FireMan]

L O L.

[jfmorris]

People seem to like that in the reviews. I think if I end up with a pizza oven it will likely be one of the wood pellet or gas ones. If I want charcoal, I got that covered about 3 different ways already...

[Jim White]

I am intrigued by the BakerStone pizza oven. It has stone top, bottom, sides and back and sits on a grill, charcoal or gas. I've been emailing with Chris at Lone Star Grillz about whether one of these would work on the Adjustable I have on order and he thinks it would. He hadn't seen these before and definitely wants a report back if I get one. I had said I was deciding to forego the full size wood burning pizza oven to do as much of it as I can on the Adjustable and he thinks I'll be fine. He also says his full size oven takes two hours to get to cooking temp while this should be ready to rock and roll in a half hour or less.



Has anyone seen or tried one of these or a similar different brand?

[Sid P]

It seems like it should work better than just a stone in a grill, especially for multiple pizzas. I’m interested to hear what you think of it.

[Dutty McDutty]

Have you gotten your LSG adjustable yet? Curious how you like it, if yes. I ordered one a couple weeks ago and the wait is already killing me...

[Jim White]

Dutty McDutty. Not yet. Haven’t gotten the heads up they send when fabrication starts, either. And yes, waiting is tough.

[gcdmd]

I went to my local Wal-Mart, and it was marked down to $137. I had the clerk do a price check, and it was the same.

I then went into haggle mode and pointed out that as of this morning it was $97 online. He called his boss and found out that if it was offered online with in-store pickup, it was, in fact, $97. Five minutes later it was in the trunk of my car.

Thanks for the tip, Sid.

[Sid P]

My pleasure, I hope you like it.

[captainlee]

Top heat is a must for great pizza. I tried that grill add on pizza oven and personally thought it was worthless. Couldn't get sufficient top heat no matter how i pre heated and how long. Finally just got rid of it. For a $97 dollar pizza oven you will get exactly what you paid for.

[captainlee]

I admit I'm a pizza snob and always look for perfection in taste and appearance. I have looked into many outdoor pizza ovens but haven't pulled the trigger yet.

[Jim White]

Do you know what brand that was? Did it have stones all around? I think that may be the key if it's going to work.

[captainlee]

I don't remember the brand, i believe it had side stones. The only open heat entry area was a slot in the rear. I believe that was there to attempt to get temperature to the upper stone, but it wasn't sufficient at all. The heat just came from conduction from the bottom stone being on top of the grill.

[NoFatNoFlavor]

This thing would be a big, fat, NOPE from me.
I worked in the food rackets for 22 years before I ran screaming from it, with 7 years in baking/pastry.
Also I've been getting better pizza from my home oven since the early 90s than you could get out of this thing.

That said, I did score an Ooni from a good friend (he's a food blogger/writer, was a ATK/CI tester/editor for 9 years and has bylines on serious eats), before they gave him a Karu 16 multifuel one for testing. (oh, the benefits of having a popular blog and 10s of Ks of Instagram followers).

Anyway, the propane Ooni Koda that he sold to me at an awesome price, is just that...awesome. I love it, have made incredible pizzas with it, and the only reason I would think to get something else, mult-fuel or not, would be to tinker.
A true Neopolitan-style pizza that requires that crazy-high heat (900 degrees+), cooks so damn fast that there really isn't any benefit from cooking with wood vs. gas.

[CaptainMike]

Agreed. For $200 - 300 bucks more you can get a pretty awesome little pizza cooker and have zero regrets. I could make a pretty good pie in the oven or the WSCG, but not like I can with the Roccbox.

[Attjack]

I just saw that Tom Horseman posted a review.

https://youtu.be/UMXZztph6tQ

[bmillin]

He uses it to cook steaks in this one - Cast Iron Seared Steak on The Walmart Expert Grill $137.00 Extra Large Portable Charcoal Pizza Oven! - YouTube

[Bogy]

Drove over to our vacation house, and stopped in WalMart for a couple other things we needed. They had one of these left, so for 97 bucks I picked it up. I watched a couple of the videos linked in the thread, and the only concern I have is that I make a pretty thick crust. But I'll try it out, and see if when I get the patio and kitchen built, if I want to include a better pizza oven.