Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet News and Press

Forbes Life
June, 2007

We have arrived at a time—summer, 2007—when a person can bake the pizza of his dreams, the pizza he damn well deserves, right in his own backyard.

Patio Daddy-O

by Richard Nalley

When we stand over our grills, adjusting the fire to fit the food, we stand on the shoulders of giants, even if some of them didn't share their protruding browridges with modern humans. We step into that great continuum of mankind that has triumphed over grease flare-ups, cheap margarita mix and wives who wouldn't believe that the grill would clean itself if you just left the fire alone.

Now, 120,000 years along in our evolution, we have arrived at a time—summer, 2007—when a person can bake the pizza of his dreams, the pizza he damn well deserves, right in his own backyard...

It's smokin' (with an integrated wood-fire smoking drawer), rockin' (with a composite-stone baking surface) and it brings the heat: 30,000 BTUs worth. The Kalamazoo Outdoor Artisan Pizza Oven is also, with its heavy-gauge stainless steel and arched [top] (for reflecting radiant heat), one fine-looking piece of machinery that will rest on a (sturdy) countertop or its own optional table. $3,990, from Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet.