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Mobile Wood Fired Oven - Anyone Have One?

txbubba's picture
txbubba

Mobile Wood Fired Oven - Anyone Have One?

I came across an outfit that offers a number of mobile wood fired ovens made in Portugal and Italy.

The Maximus has 100% 5-Star reviews on Amazon and looks very interesting.

Anyone here have any experience with one of these ovens?

I'm inclined to go with the smaller Maximus rather than the larger Prime as I only bake bread once every week or so. Baking pizza and other dishes would be added pluses. There's another mobile oven called Pulcinella by Clementi Forni that really looks nice but would be overkill for my needs.

Here's the link for the Maximus/Prime: http://www.mobile-pizza-oven.com

And here's the one for the Pulcinella: https://www.grillsnovens.com/pulcinella.html

Please note I have no financial interest in these items. Simply looking for feedback if anyone has any. Thanks in advance for any responses.

Nickisafoodie's picture
Nickisafoodie

Ovens are typically available from folks that made a go of it but for whatever reason decided to sell.  look on wood fired pizza sites or Google in general.  I see them for sale from time to time and you will save a ton of dough (no pun intended)  if u are patient and want to save costs.  see the blog portion of the pizza sites too for discussion on the topic...

Nickisafoodie's picture
Nickisafoodie

Ovens are typically available from folks that made a go of it but for whatever reason decided to sell.  look on wood fired pizza sites or Google in general.  I see them for sale from time to time and you will save a ton of dough (no pun intended)  if u are patient and want to save costs.  see the blog portion of the pizza sites too for discussion on the topic...

txbubba's picture
txbubba

I went to a one of the pizza making forums and they had a good discussion on the pros and cons (mostly cons) of these portable ovens. As I'm enjoying myself immensely baking bread as a hobby in retirement, I sense that baking with fire, and the associated fire management challenges, would detract from the pleasure I have of simply baking good bread in my electric oven. Bottom line is another expensive item avoided.