We help pizza nights happen more often.
We’re building a new generation of pizza products to make pizza nights easier—starting with the world’s first automated wood-fired oven.
It all started in the backyard of a tiny apartment in Boston.
Right after moving to Boston where he worked as a mechanical engineer for a 3D-printer company, Ben bought a second-hand, wood-pellet-fired Ooni. As a way to meet our new neighbors, he used it to host weekly pizza nights in the backyard of our 1-bedroom apartment. It was a hit.
Everyone loved the pizzas. But Ben was annoyed at how much time he was wasting adding pellets and waiting for the oven to heat back up between each pizza. The pizzas came out slower than he wanted, and instead of getting to chat with friends, he was always managing the oven.
Our first pizza night in our Cambridge, MA, backyard, April 2019
Ben the pizza maker, meet Ben the tinkerer.
Ben combined two of his lifelong passions — pizza and tinkering — and set out to create an oven that cooks incredible wood-fired pizza but in an easier, more user-friendly way. One that would let him spend more time enjoying his pizza and his friends and less time managing an oven. In the summer of 2020, he completed the first prototype of an automated pellet-fed oven.
Ben testing an early version of the burner assembly
Here’s where you come in.
4 prototypes, 100s of pizzas, and 2.5 years later, we’re getting ready to release our first consumer-grade oven, so more people can enjoy more pizza nights more easily.
This oven — and the products we hope to launch after it — is our pursuit to modernize, automate, and upgrade the process of making pizza while still honoring the craft and tradition of it.
Friends, neighbors, hosts, aspiring pizzaioli — anyone who wants to gather their people for high-quality, low-stress pizza nights like we do — this is for you.
Hi, this is us! Ben and Natalie Taylor. With a prototype oven. (In January. In Minneapolis. After a record-breaking snowstorm.)
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