What is the Turbo Top?

[Curtis Ide]

I am impressed with the concept of the 2Stone oven and am thinking of buying one. I can't quite figure out whether to get the turbo top or not. What is the turbo top and how does it work?

[Willard]

Hi Curtis,

Welcome to the forum......... I checked out your website/blog.....looks good... I'll have to spend some more time on it and see what I can learn! .........It is the thermal mass that stores the heat in the top of the oven and radiates it back down on the pizza when you are baking it. Because the pizza and in large part the sauce and the toppings have a lot of moisture in them, when its heated up in the oven it turns to steam which goes up to the top and cools it down if there isn't sufficient mass to hold the heat it cools down fast. The problem with just adding mass in a straight thickness is that it takes a long time to heat up, so the turbo top is comprised of layers of stone (the heat sink) and aluminum (good heat conductor) and togeather they are able to heat up fast and hold on to the heat better so you have little or no recovery time on the oven.

regards,
Willard

[Curtis Ide]

Very cool!

A year before you started selling your 2stone grills, I bought an outdoor oven from barbecues galore. They called it a pizza oven/smoker. It's got two chambers that are heated by air flowing around them. I put fibrament pizza stones in each one and use firebricks about four inches above the stones to cook the tops of the pizza. The recovery time is not so good but the thing works adequately.

I wish I had waited and bought one of yours! When my oven rusts out I will get a 2stone (or two).