This Easy-to-Install Kit Turns Your Kettle Grill Into a Pizza Oven

Charcoal grills are arguably the MVP of backyard cooking equipment. The oft-compact product is ideal for meaty mains like burgers and hot dogs, but it can also be used to make delicious vegetarian dishes. And now, with a few adjustments, it can even crank out perfectly crisp, tender pizzas. The KettlePizza kit transforms the top of your kettle grill into a fully functional pizza oven—yes, really.

What is the KettlePizza?

No, it’s not a new type of pizza topped with kettle corn or a pizza shaped like a tea kettle, as the name may suggest. It’s a product, made by a company of the same name, that turns your kettle charcoal grill into a working pizza oven.

Normally, grills aren’t ideal for making pizza because they struggle to reach extremely high temperatures, and they don’t always heat foods evenly. That’s where KettlePizza comes in. It’s essentially a stainless steel ring that you place between the bottom and top of the grill to create a cooking chamber—and that’s pretty much the extent of installation. There’s an opening in the front that’s large enough for pies.

When you fire up your grill, the heat rises from the rear of the chamber, then moves along the top and finally emerges from the opening. This forces the heat over the pizza in steady waves, cooking it evenly throughout. And when we say heat, we mean it. With this attachment, your grill can reach more than 750 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hot enough to make deliciously chewy Neapolitan-style pizza.

KettlePizza is available in several different sizes, but we’re particularly fond of the 22.5-inch model, which weighs less than 7 pounds. It’s designed to fit grills with the same diameter, including the beloved Weber One Touch grill, one of Amazon’s best-reviewed charcoal grills. The company claims that the grill accessory works on virtually any brand, but it was designed specifically with Weber in mind.

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Why We Love It

KettlePizza allows you to level up your backyard pizza game without investing in an expensive pizza oven that takes up valuable real estate when not in use. This gadget takes just minutes to set up, is easy to use and heats up quickly (and is a useful gift for grill enthusiasts!).

Some users say that the portable pizza oven burns through fuel faster than standalone pizza ovens. So, true pizza aficionados who want to be able to cook pizza regularly might want to invest in a full-blown outdoor pizza oven.

Pros

• Easy to set up
• Works with both charcoal and hardwood
• More affordable and less bulky than most traditional pizza ovens
• Provides stable temperatures throughout the cooking process
• Made in the U.S.A.

Cons

• May not work with every kettle grill brand
• Burns fuel faster than some traditional pizza ovens

But Don’t Take My Word for It!

The KettlePizza has hundreds of rave reviews on Amazon. Customers love it for the consistent, high temperatures and its ease of use.

“When using the KettlePizza with briquettes and hardwood chunks, I can get the temp to 700 degrees,” writes Gadget Man Dan, a five-star reviewer. “This is great for pizza with crispy bottoms, chewy insides and melty tops. You can play around with different surfaces (such as pizza stones, baking steels and cast iron), and tweak your rig for the exact types of crust you crave.”

Verified purchaser, Bryan, says that the kit works well for large groups, too. “I’ve had pizza parties with a pizza bar of toppings, and the only negative was watching everyone else chowing down and saying how great [the pizzas] are while getting another pizza on the grill. It does get hot standing in front of that 700-degree-plus oven, but [it’s] worth every singed hair.”

Where to Buy the KettlePizza

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You can purchase the KettlePizza on Amazon. It’s available for just $140, far less than a traditional outdoor pizza oven. As if we needed an excuse to eat more ‘za, this will bring our homemade pie game to the next level.

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