The BakerStone Pizza Oven Box pulls double duty: Since it was originally designed as a box to place on a grill, you can actually detach the top portion from the bottom “firebox” and do your pizza-cooking on a grill. The interior of the oven, composed of five sides of pizza stones, performed surprisingly well when up against the open-flame Ooni Koda and Gozney Roccbox. Because the five stones maintain and radiate a lot of heat, the pizzas we made came out with a good amount of char and were cooked evenly.

Preparing the pizza dough for the BakerStone Pizza Oven Box is just like preparing for a wood fired pizza oven. I made my dough in the afternoon, then let it rise for a few hours. I then divided it into two balls, an let it rise for another hour. Then I pinched a small crust around the edges and used gravity to help me stretch out the dough. I’d venture to say that most of us have some kind of fond memories about pizza. Maybe it was a pizza party after your sports events as a kid, surviving college amidst a dorm room full of empty pizza boxes, or having a homemade pizza night with your girlfriend/boyfriend. There’s a few issues with the product listing, so don’t trust the photos or the specs. However, commenters have noted that it’s not the full size pizza box. It is about 30% cheaper though, so I’m confident it’s the smaller version. It also looks like supplies are limited, so it may not be available for long. Each time you use the pizza oven, you’ll want to start it at least 15 minutes before throwing a pie into the oven; you need to give the pizza stone at the bottom of the oven time to heat up, so you get that nice char on the bottom. And, you’ll want to let it “recharge” between each pizza, too.Making pizza is perfect for everyone because it can be a simple as heating up a frozen pizza in the oven for 15 minutes, or making your own doughusing local fresh ingredients to make your own artisan style pizza. In addition to its cooking performance, we also evaluated each oven on its ease of setup, how hot the oven got (both on the inside and outside), and how easy it was to control the temperature. For wood or wood pellet models, we also looked at the ease with which we could add fuel. What to look for in a pizza oven

Once your cooking temperature is reached, you can place your pizza into the oven using a wooden or metal pizza peel. Video: BakerStone Pizza Oven Box Tested & Reviewd Cooking Experience Another note on becoming a pizzaiolo. Even if you’re not an expert at making pizza dough —we certainly weren’t! — you’re better off trying your hand at making homemade dough or buying dough from a local pizzeria that specializes in thin-crust pies than buying store-bought refrigerated or frozen dough. In our tests, both store-bought doughs we tested (Trader Joe’s for refrigerated, Wegman’s for frozen) were difficult to roll out to a desired thinness, and had a tendency to burn on the outside while not getting fully cooked inside. If you do use store-bought dough in one of these ovens, a good rule of thumb is to use a floured rolling pin to try to get it as thin as possible before cooking. (But really, avoid it if you can.)

Customer reviews

The Breville Smart Oven Pizzaiolo is a marvel of engineering, clearly designed by a team dedicated to making the perfect pizza from the comfort of your own kitchen. It is the only electric option capable of achieving 700°F+ temperatures to replicate the magic of a traditional wood-fired oven. But unlike other ovens in this review, this versatile model isn't relegated to only baking Neapolitan-style pizzas. This smart oven uses a series of sensors to optimize oven conditions for some of your favorite pies, offering automated presets for various styles: Neapolitan, thin & crispy Bar-Style, New York, and Chicago Deep-Dish. The BakerStone is versatile, but it's not the easiest oven to transport. Dismantling it into sections may help improve portability. However, we feel this bulky, 48-pound oven is better off as the focal point of an outdoor kitchen than as a companion for car camping. It is capable of reaching the necessary temperatures to cook Neapolitan-style pizza, but the bulk and design of the firebox equate to a long preheating time. However, once it reaches the desired temperature, this price-pointed oven will bake just as well, if not better, than other top models on the market. Superior design precedes superior performance in this professional-grade oven made for the common cook

The BakerStone Original Series Pizza Oven Box Kit transforms your BBQ grill into a gourmet pizza oven. The Bakerstone is the most copied pizza oven box design in the world. This is the patented original product. Recommended by Oprah as a perfect gift, the Bakerstone results from a patented design that turns a five-sided stone baking chamber into a mini stone pizza oven. It is also available in a smaller size, so it fits on the Kettle BBQ!While looking for gas grill pizza accessories I ran into a product called the Camp Chef Italia Artisan Outdoor Pizza Oven Accessory. Wow, that was a mouthful. I almost bought it, thinking it was a normal grill-top pizza maker like the KettlePizza or the BakerStone. However, it’s not. It’s a device made specifically for a portable gas grill from the company CampChef. In our tests, fresh dough made by hand and by a local pizzeria cooked in about four minutes, coming out with a nice, puffy crust, and with just as much charring on the crust as the open-flame versions. Store-bought dough (both refrigerated and frozen/thawed) burned on the outside but remained chewy and somewhat uncooked on the inside — a cooking issue with all of the ovens we tried, not just the BakerStone. Overall, the pizzas were just as good as those we made with the Ooni and Roccbox, although they took a few more minutes to finish. BakerStone Portable Gas Series Pizza Oven Box review: Verdict