The alluring NUO portable oven makes ultimate wood-fired pizzas simply not possible with your oven

No matter where you are in the world, arguably, pizza would be the best food to enjoy with friends and family! And when it comes to having a pizza, there’s no better way to prepare it with your hands, in your own oven on the countertop of your kitchen. To let you discover restaurant-quality wood-fired pizza right at home or in the garden; Noox Design offers NUO portable pizza oven that’ll transform the way you have been baking pizzas at home.

An essential appliance for a compact kitchen, NUO is designed for the world beyond large, electric ovens. This one is actually a hybrid oven that lets the baker choose between gas or wood flame. The oven works conveniently without electricity and sits comfortably on a flat surface courtesy of its metal legs. On a simple push of the knob – placed on the side of the oven – the NUO can ignite automatically and then allows one to toggle between the choice of flame and its intensity. With a chimney on top that permits exhaust control, the oven can reach temperatures of up to 500-degree Celsius within and the thermal insulation ensures the pizza cooks evenly, without heating the body of the oven from the outside.

Designer: Noox Design and Mauricio Freitas

A nice combo of impeccable design and function, NUO is made from quality materials in an extremely compact size. It weighs slightly heavy owing to its thick walls and stone floor but is still convenient to carry to the garden or the outdoor location you’re traveling to. With that sort of convenience, its difficult to imagine a multipurpose – indoor/outdoor – pizza oven like the NUO. It multiplies the entire fun of preparing a pizza! Taking of multipurpose opportunity further, NUO portable oven can be used for tasks beyond baking pizzas. It can let aficionados prepare pastas, meat, fish, veggies and more with the flavor of firewood, if that’s your taste!

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How To Make Your Own Giant Dripping Cheese Pizza Slice Table

Pizza: like never getting out of bed before noon, it’s a way of life. And what better way to celebrate that way of life than constructing your own giant dripping cheese pizza slice table and then eating pizza on it?! I certainly can’t think of anything.

The relatively simple tutorial, created by Instructables user XYZ Create, basically involves cutting a pizza slice shape from a large piece of plywood, then using a jigsaw to cut out the dripping cheese sides and attaching them via pocket hole screws. Next, attaching mounting flanges and the pipe legs to the bottom of the table and painting the pizza with your favorite toppings. I like mushrooms and jalapeños!

So, is this table making anybody else hungry? Because I thought I had some leftover pizza in the fridge but all I found were a few dry crusts on the kitchen counter. I guess that’s what I get for living with roommates! I’m lying, I ate that whole pizza last night. And a dozen wings and an order of breadsticks.

This robotic pizza-vending machine automates the entire gourmet pizza-making process!





While frozen pizzas will always have a place in my heart (all those years as a student living on a strict budget), it seems they may be short-lived. A company has built what they claim is a ‘pizza vending machine’ that uses robots to automate the pizza-making process. Called the Piestro (a portmanteau of Pie and Maestro), this machine allows you to order artisanal pizzas with a few button-taps. Choose your toppings and the entire apparatus puts your pizza together from scratch, dispensing sauce evenly on the base, generously scattering the toppings, loading it with cheese, and then baking the pie before dispensing it out to you neatly tucked in a pizza-box. Sure, the Piestro won’t replace actually eating a true-blue New York-style pizza handmade by a master pizzaiolo, but it sort of rings the death knell for pre-packaged pizzas, and possibly even for fast-food chains like Dominos and Pizza Hut… because guess what, the Piestro can run 24×7, allowing you to order a pizza even at 3am in the morning.

The Piestro’s process starts with a pre-made pizza base (it’s easier and lasts longer than fresh wet dough) onto which it pours generous dollops of sauce. The pizza moves down the conveyor belt where the toppings you choose (using a touchscreen interface) are scattered on top of it, right before the pizza makes its way into an oven that cooks the toppings. Sort of like one of those toy-grabbing machines, the entire process is visible behind a transparent panel, before the pizza finally pops out of an opening at the base of the machine taking just 3 minutes from start to finish.

The creators of the Piestro highlight how useful a pizza-vending machine would be in current times. It works without any human intervention, and apart from the fact that it needs to be replenished with fresh ingredients ever so often, the Piestro can practically work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, providing fresh pizzas to people even in a lockdown. Not to mention the fact that the pizza comes untouched by human hands (try and match that, Dominos). The company’s even partnering with PopID to ensure contactless payments by relying on facial recognition to authenticate payments to the pizza machine. The Piestro is currently in its funding stages, looking for partners and investors to hop on board and bring this robotic pizza-master to life.

Designer: Piestro

Why reusable, circular pizza boxes are better for the environment… and even for your pizza!

I was today years old when I got to know that pizzas used to be transported in stackable, reusable copper containers before the pizza box finally took over. The pizza box was the brainchild of a certain Tom Monaghan, better known as the founder of Dominos Pizza. Invented in the 60s, the pizza box aimed at replacing past solutions with something that was quick to produce, great for scale (especially considering how much of a cult status pizzas have today), and easy to dispose of. What Tom didn’t realize back in the 60s when environmental impact wasn’t a hot button issue, was that just in 2011, Americans would be throwing an average of 3 BILLION pizza boxes each year, generating enough waste to wrap around the earth a whopping 26 times… with boxes weighing as much as 36 times the weight of the Eiffel tower.

You see, Pizza boxes are by virtue of their design, single-use. The box inadvertently gets greasy when a pizza is put inside it, and because of that, can’t be reused a second time; it can only be composted. Besides, we aren’t even addressing the amount of paper that’s wasted in creating a square box for a round pizza pie. PIZZycle (a portmanteau of pizza + cycle) is a closed-loop solution that allows pizza boxes to be used, washed, and recycled. The boxes come molded from a bioplastic, which allows them to be the same shape and size as the pizza. Vents on the rim of the box allow steam to escape, keeping your pizza crisp, fluffy, and delicious, and a slide-to-lock design that allows the packaging to stay closed during transportation. Designed to be reused, the PIZZycle boxes are delivered to customers, who can eat directly out of it (because it’s conveniently plate-shaped) and throw it in the dishwasher to get cleaned. Cleaned boxes are then transported back to the pizzeria (hint: delivery guys), where they’re reused. The bioplastic generates much lesser waste than the single-use paper box does, and just like its predecessor, can be composted if it were to get damaged. It beautifully marries space-saving circular pizza boxes with an environment-saving circular economy, so you can eat your pizza guilt-free, well, at least partially!

Designer: Marlene Bruch & Luise Hornbach

Also Read: Pizza Hut’s eco-friendly round boxes are being used to promote their vegan meat-free pizzas.

Pizza Hut + Ogilvy designed a limited edition pizza-box with a foosball table built into the lid!

It seems like Pizza Hut and Ogilvy want you to ‘play with your food’, or at least want you to play with the packaging of your food. The two brands collaborated over the launch of a new limited-edition pizza box that comes with an actual foosball table built right into the lid!

The Foosball Pizza Box was created as a warm-up for the Europa League which begins October 22nd (Get it, Warm-up? Pizza?). Wendy Leung, marketing director of Pizza Hut explains, ‘the Pizza Hut Foosball Pizza Box was a great opportunity to remind football fans that pizza goes best with their football. Launched at a time when everyone’s stuck in their houses, the box hopes to drum up enthusiasm, interest, and positivity. While diehard fans are just waiting to go out and support their teams or play their own games of street football, the Pizza Hut Foosball Pizza Box provides a great safe alternative, allowing you to battle it out with your friends in the comfort and safety of your own homes. Winner gets an extra slice, perhaps? And if there’s a tie, just equally divide the pie!

The Foosball Pizza Box is currently only available to pizza-enthusiasts in Hong Kong (although enough enthusiasm could push the companies to roll it out worldwide)… you can shoot your shot at winning your own Foosball Pizza Box by visiting the Pizza Hut app, or leaving a clever comment on Pizza Hut Hong Kong’s Facebook page.

Designers: Pizza Hut & Ogilvy Hong Kong

Dress Your Wounds with Pepperoni Pizza

Did you get a boo-boo on your finger? Don’t be normal and wrap it in an ordinary Band-Aid. Instead, be a surrealist and protect your cuts and scrapes with a slice of pizza. No silly, not actual searing hot pizza. That would just burn your fingers. I’m talking about these bandages that look like pizza.

GamaGo’s whimsical Pizza Bandages look like tiny slices of pepperoni pizza, each with just the perfect amount of meat and cheese to dress your wounds. They’re actually made from a latex-free, sterile material with a small gauze pad inside, so they work just like regular bandages – only they’re triangular. I suppose if you’ve got a really weird grouping of cuts, you could arrange multiple slices to form a complete pizza pie.

You can order up a hot and fresh box of Pizza Bandages over at Entertainment Earth for just $5.

These Pepperoni Pizza Pillows Won’t Leave Cheese on Your Couch

If there’s one food that I could eat on a whim just about any day or time, it’s pizza. My personal favorite has to be Lou Malnati’s here in Chicago, but I also love a jumbo New York style slice, an ultra-thin Italian brick oven pizza, or one of those crispy 8-corner Detroit slices from Jet’s. My topping of choice? Good old pepperoni. Now, I can have some pepperoni pizza on my couch 7-days a week, without gaining an ounce or clogging my arteries.

These fun pepperoni pizza pillows would look great sitting on any junk food lover’s couch, and are guaranteed not to leave grease stains no matter how long you leave them sitting there. Firebolt Creations makes these photorealistic pizza throw pillows, which already have my mouth watering for a slice just looking at the photographs.

Each slice measures about 14″ from tip to tail, making it quite a bit larger than most pizza slices I’ve eaten… but I’m willing to rise – like so much pizza dough – to the challenge. Though I’m guessing the polyester fabric and filling won’t be nearly as tasty as one of Lou’s deep-dish buttercrusts, chock full of mozzarella cheese.

The pizza slice pillows sell individually for $24.95 each, so you’re looking at nearly $150 bucks if you want a whole pizza  – and that price doesn’t include the box or one of those little picnic table things in the middle that keep the toppings from sticking to the cardboard. Good news is that two slices this huge should be more than enough to fill you up.

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