CES 2025: This Smart Pizza Oven Gets Almost As Hot As a Wood-Burning Oven
The first thing people usually do when they get a pizza oven is invite you to a pizza party, where they will inevitably serve burnt but undercooked pizza, and maybe even sacrifice a couple of pies by dropping them in a failed attempt at making a pizza. turn it over while it’s in the oven. At CES 2025, Current Backyard unveiled a smart pizza oven that could solve these problems.
The current Model P Smart Pizza Oven is an electric pizza oven with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth that can be used indoors or outdoors. Using the included app, it promises to make the perfect pie every time.
Cook pizza up to 850ºF.
At first glance, the concept is attractive: an oven that eliminates the most common challenges in making pizza through the use of smart technology. Model P uses a heating cycle algorithm, so you never have to turn the pizza while it’s in the oven, which is difficult to do without a lot of practice. You don’t even have to open the door while the pizza is cooking.
The included app has a “Pizza Cooking Calculator” so no matter what kind of pizza you want to make, it will tell you the exact amount of sauce, cheese and toppings needed for, say, a 12-inch pizza. style of your choice (Neapolitan, New York, Thin Crust). It will then tell the oven how long and at what temperature to cook—up to 850°F.
You just need to place the pizza on the cordierite cooking stone and then let the app and oven handle it. It’s now claimed that the oven doesn’t need to be reheated between pizzas either – you can continuously slide it in and out, which is more similar to how a traditional wood-fired pizza oven works. Since a pizza oven is just an oven, you can use the P model for other cooking purposes using the low or high broil function.
How much will a modern smart pizza oven cost?
The oven looks quite durable and is made of stainless steel. It comes with a 10-year limited warranty and is priced at $599, which is in line with the market price compared to other electric ovens with the same temperature capability. (While prices for specialty pizza ovens vary, they’re often not cheap— this smart model from Breville , for example, starts at about $800.)
As someone who owns several smart cooking devices, including a Brisk It Origin grill and a Brava oven , both of which work similarly (allowing the app and device to independently determine cooking times and temperatures), I’m a big believer in general concepts. . I’m a confident cook, but sometimes it’s nice to relax and let the machine take over. The oven doesn’t cook the sauce or choose the quality of the toppings—you’re still responsible for the quality of the result—but you don’t have to stand over the stove and figure out when something is ready. so to speak.
Current has a mixed track record (to me).
However, I tested the Current Smart Grill in my backyard last summer, and while it did exactly what it promised, I didn’t enjoy the experience. Electric grills are great if for some reason you can’t use gas, charcoal, or wood, but you won’t get as much smoke or char as you would from a “real” grill. I also found the Tok to be difficult to clean. Without hands-on testing, it’s difficult to determine whether this pizza oven will face similar shortcomings.
As far as pizza ovens go, 850°F isn’t really that hot: Wood-fired pizza ovens can reach temperatures over 1,000°F, and high temperatures are critical to producing the best crust. However, you can’t bring a wood-fired pizza oven into your home, and electric pizza ovens are already quite popular, so adding smart technology to one is a potential win. Let’s find out when it will hit the market: The Model P should arrive sometime in the second quarter of 2025.