Making pizza at home that is somewhere around “fine” and clearly far away from “oh, goodness why do this to pizza” has been a dream of many people over the years. Heck, DiGiorno basically built an entire brand identity out of confusing home-cooked pizza with delivery.
GE’s new Monogram Pizza Oven aims to bridge that gap in luxury home kitchens.
After heating up for 30 minutes, the oven allegedly produces a gooey, golden brown pie ready to eat in just two minutes. Well, there’s probably a cooling period, but you get the idea. The “golden brown” should also be even thanks to zone-controlled heating — and the Monogram Pizza Oven even comes with the ability to connect to an app for smartphone-based pizza creation.
Best of all? The special little oven comes equipped with an interior ventilation system that requires no special construction or installation. It’s like a really big microwave that just cooks pizzas in that it can be plugged into already-existing openings rather than requiring one be made for it.
The Monogram Pizza Oven is just one major project to come out of GE’s FirstBuild, which is described by the company’s press release as “a new model of manufacturing that challenges makers around the world to ideate and help design innovations in home appliances.”
Basically, it’s a microfactory on the University of Louisville campus in Kentucky (as well as an online forum) that iterates on physical designs through small-batch production. A sort of brainpower crowdsourcing for appliances, if you will.
The Monogram Pizza Oven is set to release in May 2016 with an MSRP of $9,900 — which is where the “luxury” comes in in the aforementioned “luxury home kitchen.” So, yeah, you’re probably not going to buy one for your New Jersey apartment. However, there’s always the future, right?
