To save you a bunch of reading, it is Gozney Arc XL
also GolfGeezer posting his really triggered a purchase.
save the time, just skip to photo’s..
I have wanted an outdoor pizza oven in the worse way for a few years now, I just could not bring myself to it. One being I never have believed I could make a better pizza outside than I can in my oven (limited to most outdoor pizza ovens, certainly there are exceptions,) yet, Chris Bianco says it’s not the oven, it’s the person running it, and developing the dough. I also truly believe this more than anything.
Since I have been so stubborn on the quality of final pizza difference, I was left hoping at some-point I would get to play with a few, which I did, but not as many as I had hoped. My sister lent me her ooni, an earlier model with pellets. I was not impressed with that at all, but I know as with most things, they have certainly improved over time but the folding legs, the 12 inch capacity for size, etc.l. Well I’m a bull in a china shop when it comes to my chair and my dexterity, and that just would end up being thrown in the road and ran over at some point, so I ruled out the smaller oven. Which continuously pointed me to Gozney dome dual fuel, even though I thought the Rocc Box from Gozney was likely built better than an Ooni, it was still a hard no because of size. And the original dome was just more than I wanted to spend.
Can I have a wood fired pizza oven, the answer is, safely, no. We have such a narrow back yard, and so many leaves land in our gutters, the embers floating away kind of scare me to be honest, my neighbor is a lieutenant with the FD here, and I’d rather not be the guy who is that guy, lol. The other side of wood is, I don’t cut it anymore, and do I really want to pay others for that, the answer is no, (as of right now).
Enter earlier this year my neighbor borrowed me his Kettle Pizza attachment for my kettle. I burned a lot of fuel in that working through how to run it in various ways. I’ll start by saying you can make a really good pizza in that. It is not meant to be a party pizza oven, keeping that small amount of fire space maintained for long periods of times, while it’s possible, it’s more work than I wanted. The thing that did happen though was…. I suddenly felt I wanted a pizza oven outside.
I switched my thoughts from better pizza to, I can with greater efficiency burn through 10 doughs, than I can in my oven, so if it is a Saturday and I want to bake 30 doughs to just mess around.. no biggy. (Not sauces or toppings).). Which now opens up so much, the Gozney was my favorite though) Through all of my searching Gozney started showing up in my wife’s newsfeed and she commented how nice those ovens look. My jaw dropped… but I did not want to push my luck. Then the ARC XL showed up in my FB newsfeed and I was doomed, it just came out at the exact moment I wanted to do this. Then Ooni came out with their 24 inch and my ego shot through the rough thinking of 20 inch pizzas…… with a few days I had removed myself from any weird need to proving something with a 20 inch pizza, which really left me at not getting a pizza oven at all.
Enter GolfGeezer getting his Gozney, and literally a few days later I went on a pizza bender, and by the time I was through 2 weeks of making several pizzas a day. I pulled the trigger on a ArcXL, and for now have ordered a 30 x 36 stainless cart with casters and locks on wheels. I also could not help but laugh at thinking to where hoovarmin commented saying, a new era for FK had begun. He could not have been more right,
‘’in the past years I have had summers where I smoked 100 plus racks of ribs for parties, friends etc.. I just do not have that energy anymore, I have no need to work that hard to prove anything anymore in my bbq, yet, those cooks taught me so much. And maybe another time, or for the right reason I will pull out some larger bbq’s. What happens right away is the ability to help friends out and host parties, just with a pizza focus now.
Better pizza than oven, better than Weber? Too soon to say, my guess, no. Just different pizza
snd for comparisons.
these came off a Weber with kettle pizza
Home Oven
and a few from my first cook in the Gozney.
so I took photo's and showed the comparisons in a Neapolitan style crust, I have not tested the Gozney o a NY slice yet, but tomorrow likely I will as I am hosting family pizza party this weekend. Not sure which oven gets used, likely both,
Well that was a lot to type, but my reasons, but the reason that made it happen most, and my wife being super on board? It was the last time we hosted her family for a pizza party, everyone wanted to come back and do it again, and again.. I loved it, I got to serve my pizza, but last time I was inside for an hour, this will allow me to be around family instead. And of course, the efficiency will expedite my learning.
The most amazing part, I did not need to get rid of a grill. I floated the idea of moving the 26 kettle to the front yard to cook burgers, brats, chicken, etc for neighborhood. My wife just said sounds like a great place to put it. And my 26 still lives here, just a greater duty of feeding neighbors.
also GolfGeezer posting his really triggered a purchase.
save the time, just skip to photo’s..
I have wanted an outdoor pizza oven in the worse way for a few years now, I just could not bring myself to it. One being I never have believed I could make a better pizza outside than I can in my oven (limited to most outdoor pizza ovens, certainly there are exceptions,) yet, Chris Bianco says it’s not the oven, it’s the person running it, and developing the dough. I also truly believe this more than anything.
Since I have been so stubborn on the quality of final pizza difference, I was left hoping at some-point I would get to play with a few, which I did, but not as many as I had hoped. My sister lent me her ooni, an earlier model with pellets. I was not impressed with that at all, but I know as with most things, they have certainly improved over time but the folding legs, the 12 inch capacity for size, etc.l. Well I’m a bull in a china shop when it comes to my chair and my dexterity, and that just would end up being thrown in the road and ran over at some point, so I ruled out the smaller oven. Which continuously pointed me to Gozney dome dual fuel, even though I thought the Rocc Box from Gozney was likely built better than an Ooni, it was still a hard no because of size. And the original dome was just more than I wanted to spend.
Can I have a wood fired pizza oven, the answer is, safely, no. We have such a narrow back yard, and so many leaves land in our gutters, the embers floating away kind of scare me to be honest, my neighbor is a lieutenant with the FD here, and I’d rather not be the guy who is that guy, lol. The other side of wood is, I don’t cut it anymore, and do I really want to pay others for that, the answer is no, (as of right now).
Enter earlier this year my neighbor borrowed me his Kettle Pizza attachment for my kettle. I burned a lot of fuel in that working through how to run it in various ways. I’ll start by saying you can make a really good pizza in that. It is not meant to be a party pizza oven, keeping that small amount of fire space maintained for long periods of times, while it’s possible, it’s more work than I wanted. The thing that did happen though was…. I suddenly felt I wanted a pizza oven outside.
I switched my thoughts from better pizza to, I can with greater efficiency burn through 10 doughs, than I can in my oven, so if it is a Saturday and I want to bake 30 doughs to just mess around.. no biggy. (Not sauces or toppings).). Which now opens up so much, the Gozney was my favorite though) Through all of my searching Gozney started showing up in my wife’s newsfeed and she commented how nice those ovens look. My jaw dropped… but I did not want to push my luck. Then the ARC XL showed up in my FB newsfeed and I was doomed, it just came out at the exact moment I wanted to do this. Then Ooni came out with their 24 inch and my ego shot through the rough thinking of 20 inch pizzas…… with a few days I had removed myself from any weird need to proving something with a 20 inch pizza, which really left me at not getting a pizza oven at all.
Enter GolfGeezer getting his Gozney, and literally a few days later I went on a pizza bender, and by the time I was through 2 weeks of making several pizzas a day. I pulled the trigger on a ArcXL, and for now have ordered a 30 x 36 stainless cart with casters and locks on wheels. I also could not help but laugh at thinking to where hoovarmin commented saying, a new era for FK had begun. He could not have been more right,
‘’in the past years I have had summers where I smoked 100 plus racks of ribs for parties, friends etc.. I just do not have that energy anymore, I have no need to work that hard to prove anything anymore in my bbq, yet, those cooks taught me so much. And maybe another time, or for the right reason I will pull out some larger bbq’s. What happens right away is the ability to help friends out and host parties, just with a pizza focus now.
Better pizza than oven, better than Weber? Too soon to say, my guess, no. Just different pizza
snd for comparisons.
these came off a Weber with kettle pizza
Home Oven
and a few from my first cook in the Gozney.
so I took photo's and showed the comparisons in a Neapolitan style crust, I have not tested the Gozney o a NY slice yet, but tomorrow likely I will as I am hosting family pizza party this weekend. Not sure which oven gets used, likely both,
Well that was a lot to type, but my reasons, but the reason that made it happen most, and my wife being super on board? It was the last time we hosted her family for a pizza party, everyone wanted to come back and do it again, and again.. I loved it, I got to serve my pizza, but last time I was inside for an hour, this will allow me to be around family instead. And of course, the efficiency will expedite my learning.
The most amazing part, I did not need to get rid of a grill. I floated the idea of moving the 26 kettle to the front yard to cook burgers, brats, chicken, etc for neighborhood. My wife just said sounds like a great place to put it. And my 26 still lives here, just a greater duty of feeding neighbors.
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