Having lived in Osaka for nearly a decade and now in the process of building a home near a Costco, I have disappointingly never met anyone who has had a satisfactory answer for me:
Where do you buy an oven that can fit a Costco pizza? Everyone I ask says that they don’t buy them because they’re too big to cook, and they just assume you’re supposed to cut them in quarters and cook them a piece at a time. That’s not good enough for me, I want to cook an entire Costco pizza without cutting it first, where can I find an oven that will allow this dream to become a reality?
I would prefer an electric pizza oven but I’m willing to design my kitchen around this if it’s absolutely necessary.
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If you’re building your own house, build a wood fired oven outside. Makes any pizza taste 10x better.
I know an American couple family that inherited a full-sized American oven from a family that moved here back in the days when you brought everything you owned if you moved here expecting to be here for a long time. And yes they did full-sized pizzas and thanksgiving turkeys.
Never seen another like it here in my many years.
Probably North America. It’s a super long, boring story, but I bought the stove of my dreams some 30 years ago, and had it shipped over. The house of our dreams is functional, but the stove still isn’t hooked up, but that’s irrelevant to your question.
What’s relevant is that it can be done. Should it be done? I never buy bake-your-own Costco pizzas. I buy the ready-to-eat ones, freeze them, and cook them slice by slice in our Rinnai.
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At Costco? I’ve never seen them in the store itself, but maybe the Costco online shop carries them? Although I agree an outside pizza would be the best solution if you can make that happen.
I heat them up just fine in my AEG 71L oven.
BPK947730M is the current model, mine’s a few years older.
I buy them on uber-eats(or which ever one it is) and get it delivered warm.
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Buuuut I guess that is cheating. We have a 50L oven, but fairly sure it wouldn’t quite fit.
I have a microwave oven combo that came with two trays. I cut the Costco pizza in half, then put each half on a tray. It’s a convection oven but I still swap the top and bottom trays about half way through cooking
My friend has one. She had it shipped over from the states.
I just imported one from the UK via eBay. Cost about 1/3 of the price of anything remotely comparable in Japan. Bought an uncooked Costco pizza once – way better to get it cooked for the same price.
You can easily build your own brick oven with a trip to your local hardware store. If you can design the plan ahead of time, they’ll even cut the material to size for you.
Maybe here? https://store.miele.co.jp/kitchen/oven-microwave-steamer/oven/
get an ooni
Many house builders offer some choices of full sized gas or electric ovens instead of the traditional burners/fish cooker. Will they fit a Costco pizza? Not sure but I hope so.
So, If you REALL want an oven that actually fits a Costco pizza – You’d have to either A) Build an oven yourself/Get a Contractor to built it for you. Or
B) Buy a Commercial Grade Oven.
Both options will cost you a Fairly significant amount of money (50~300万, depending on your needs) and take up a Great deal of Space.
But if money isn’t a problem, then go look up Commercial grade pizza ovens, I guess?