I read about the Roccbox on Serious Eats. Kenji’s review was so glowing that I decided to get one. Its pretty fantastic! It really gets up to 900 degrees and does make neapolitan style pizzas in around 90 seconds. Its not cheap, $600 - I had to pay $50 shipping but its currently free shipping, but its worth it. It can use either propane or wood. Propane works great, but I haven’t been able to get it hot enough for neapolitan using wood (can do New York style). Its a little heavy, around 40 lbs, but it comes with a convenient carrying strap. The insulation is great. Here is the website, Gozney | Outdoor Pizza Ovens | Wood & Gas Fired Ovens Great product!
Tempting. I prefer thin and crisp to Neapolitan style, so one of the cheaper ones might make more sense for me.
You can do thin and crisp with the Roccbox. It has a built in thermometer and the gas option is easily controlled. Of course if you never want to do Neapolitan it doesn’t make any sense to spend the money.
Yeah, I would never do Neapolitan.
It is a great little gadget though!
That’s a nice crust on that pizza!
great to see the positive review. i’m waiting for my blackstone pizza oven to fall apart to upgrade to the roccbox but so far, 4 yrs and tons of pizza, pitas, in it’s still chugging along …
Damn! Now I want a Roccbox, too.
In honor of @robert, and the fact that my lovely wife of thirty years prefers thin crust, crispy pizzas, I did a classic New York pepperoni tonight. I used the wood burner on the Roccbox and brought it up to a little over 600 F (Ken Forkish recommends this temp for NY style pizzas). Cooked it for around five minutes instead of the 90 seconds for a Neapolitan at 900 degrees. Turned out beautifully. Couldn’t taste much wood flavor so I will probably stick to gas in the future (I am a die hard charcoal grill person so this is a deviation). Highly recommend this gadget @attran99!
Looks spot on.
https://instagram.com/p/6v48PeLVz3/
Nice pie and pepperoni cups! Btw, for natural casing pepperoni, go to superking in the deli section. Beautiful cups at great price.
Here’s my rendition of the Rosa from bianco.
I also don’t really do Neapolitan as my wife likes a crispy crust. I lower the heat and cook it about 5 min as well in the blackstone.
Gorgeous! I have to do that!!
Just rented the roccbox from joymode for the weekend. Made bavel’s harrisa shrimp
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtY-CyQh5lc/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=f9ui5rl34lvh
And roasted sardines
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtXLKcVhvrd/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=fmcl4h7hu8mc
So far so good—great for fish and seafood
I’ve been jealousy following along! Now I totally want a roccbox. Everything you’ve made looks so good.
I decided to buy myself one of these. I’d have gotten the 6500, which can get hotter, but they’re out of stock and it might not arrive for two months. I prefer crisp pizza, so 700° is fine.
Also getting the legs, side table, and wind door. I’ve got a steel peel already.
This really is the golden age of home pizza making. You got the Wolfgang mockmills a line of affordable stone mills and a bevy of new ovens. On the high end, the breville pizzialo, Roccbox, and pizzaparty Ardore.
On the low end ooni just launched their koda, a $299 portalable backyard oven. And then there’s Blackstone pizza oven.
For my money I’m gonna pull the trigger on the Ardore by pizzaparty.
Looks like a good choice
It’s even on sale right now…making it only slightly more expensive than the Roccbox…and if you upgrade the stone piece…that’s on sale, too.