Huntsman® Forno Ragno™ Pizza Oven

Amazing grill, great for bbq and making pizza.

I love everything about Huntsman Spider Grill, from the packaging it arrived in to how well it performed the first time I fired it up.

The best grill/smoker I have ever purchased — it's actually a combination of my three previous grills. I want to drop names out of respect for the brands; however, I wish this product had existed back in 2015.

I love my Huntsman, and honestly, I haven't unboxed or used the Forno Ragno pizza oven yet. I know it's going to be just as excellent.

First Use: I smoked and grilled two whole chickens. They turned out better than I expected, considering it was my first time.

This is the perfect item regardless of your experience level.

Not to toot my own horn, but I’m on the more advanced side of homemade pizzas. I’ve owned three different pizza ovens over the last few years…and I’m not big on single use items taking up a ton of space on my limited back patio real estate. The Huntsman, itself, has been huge at the all in one market…the pizza oven kit, has put in a category all of its own. It’s not perfect. I’m used it an 850 degree pizza stone…this doesn’t get there. So, it is a longer cook time, than we’re normally used to. In stead of 90 second pizzas…you’re looking at 3-5 minutes. But, that does make the cooking experience more relaxing. Even though you still need to rotate the pizza during the cook, it’s not as often. I love it, so much so, that I sold my other pizza ovens!

That would make the pizza oven 5 stars? A thinner pizza stone. This would allow the stone to heat up faster, and recover between pizzas faster. Other then that…no complaints from me!

This pizza oven accessory provides a stone cooking deck that sits directly on the Huntsman's charcoal grate. The cooking deck leaves a gap around the outside edge where you will place charcoal to provide the heat for the cook. The kit also comes with a new ring that holds the two stone dome plates and the chimney. The installation of this kit effectively creates an enclosed pizza oven between the charcoal grate and the normal cooking grate level which you access through the grill's front door.

When I set this up to cook, I filled a Weber style charcoal chimney about 3/4 full with lump charcoal, lit it, and let it get completely engulfed for about 15 minutes. I then dumped that in the gap and spread it out evenly. I placed a good bit of unlit lump charcoal on top of that and then placed the top ceramics on the grill and attached the chimney thermometer to the Venom controller on the grill. From here, I set the Venom to 600°F.

About 10 minutes later, The Venom controller was registering 600°F. It took no time to heat up in that aspect. The stone cooking deck, however, needs additional time to get good and hot. For general pizza cooking, I'd recommend letting the deck temperature (measured with an infrared thermometer) get to at least 450°F. That takes about 30 minutes. After you light the charcoal and get it in the grill, you can use that warmup time to build your pizzas.

I don't plan to stop with pizzas on this setup. This is gonna do a lot of great baking here in the near future!

The pizza oven and stone are pretty nice. You get a second probe, additional upper ring and your pizza quality depends mainly on how well you make the dough. I’m relatively new to this style of pizza on stone cooking so took some tries to get it right. A few suggestions: Set Temp to 700F, use something really hot for fuel like Jealous Devil Hex - and give this time to get up to temp and stay there. 700F on Venom gives me consistent 650F on the probe. Buy a different quality pizza peel - the one that came with it fell apart at the rivets in the first cook. Everything else has been rock solid as usual. Overall a relatively cheap way to get a pizza oven