What I wish I Knew and Review: 6 Months On, Do I Still Love my Gozney Roccbox

0:00 six months with my rock box and probably over 100 pizzas made so as it passed the test of time and what are the things that i wish i knew at the beginning come on let's do a six month review [Music] we're gonna divide this review in three sections first of all we're gonna discuss the quality secondly we're gonna discuss days of use and thirdly we're gonna discuss cleaning maintenance and the things i wishing you when it comes to quality i think the rock box did fantastic first of all a caveat let me tell you how i use it i take it out i do obviously my pizza outdoor because you should never cook with this indoor and then let it cool down but my storage happens inside the house so

0:46 this i would expect to have lasted over a long time because you don't leave it outside to the rain there's no the wind etc etc etc which is something i advise you to do also because it's really portable as we're going to discuss in one second so if i look at it the silicon is totally perfect there's no blemishes i every so often washer with some kind of kitchen spray all-purpose spray and any dirt kind of goes away the steel at the front as well looks fantastic it's slightly discolored at the top this one if you see in my video review at the beginning blackens when you cook but you can just put something wet at the end and it just kind of comes out really nicely and at the end of the day considering all the pizzas we've made i think it looks great the sun is dirty and we're gonna discuss that at the end

1:31 when we talk about maintenance because that's an important factor but this stone gets cleaned out when you switch it up legs as well i think the strength of the legs doesn't change when you open and close them the still remain very tough and i feel this is absolutely sturdy and the rock box comes with the peel and if you look at the peel as well it looks totally fine of course we take good care of it you should always take good care of it it costs a lot of money but if you do it looks totally fine now let's talk about the accessories so you got the thermometer dial and this one has always worked very well i find that the thermometer gives you a good reading of this stone and so far has worked perfectly without any issues whatsoever and most importantly the ignition system that has worked flawlessly throughout so it's very easy press the knob you turn

2:17 fire comes on so when it comes to quality i've got to give it 10 out of 10. this is a fantastic little product for what it is and i'm really happy of using it and i'm going to keep using it for a very very long time second thing is of use is this easy to make a pizza or not and does it get easier to make a pizza when you become a little bit more of an expert or not and like i said at the beginning my initial review of this the ease of use is spot on firstly the heating is controlled fantastically by the knob that you turn left or right depending on how much flame you want it one thing i'd like to say is that it does take a little bit longer than i was anticipating to get to temperature i think it's advertised about 30 minutes i always find that you need a good 45 minutes to get the stone to 400 degrees

3:04 celsius and above which is where you want it to cook but once that's set the ease of use is very easy now let's talk about travel and storage this comes with this strap which you none other than wrap it around so you have the handle and you can pull it up and carry it around this is good to just for storage purpose it's not advice for you to travel with there's a special travel bag that comes separately that you have to buy separately with this but when it comes to storage that strap is great because what i do that i wrapped around it and then i can just carry it to my cupboard where i store the rock box when it comes to traveling then you need to think about two things you need to bring obviously this because otherwise you're gonna make a pizza and then you need to bring the gas canister i bought a five

3:51 kilo gas canister and this has lasted me for about 15 to 20 cooks in every cook i make 5 to 10 15 pizzas so you make a lot of pizzas but is that an extra thing you need to bring with you i mean it does weigh those five six seven eight kilos plus this but i would say it's really easily portable you can put it in your car it's quite heavy so it stays in place so portability another really good quality of this moving on to the third part which is maintenance and things that wishing you so the maintenance again it's quite straightforward what i do at the end of every cook is i let it cool down because obviously you don't want to burn yourself and then you can just use an all-purpose spray to clean the silicone

4:38 outside and actually use baby white to clean all the stainless steel outside i don't clean the inside very often i probably do at the end of maybe like a month worth of pizza making then i would just give it a wipe down it doesn't say that you have to do it but it doesn't take much shove your hand clean like this you're going to get all dirty you go for a shower and then it works out and it's perfect now let's talk about the sun because one of the first things i i was really upset about is like how the hell am i going to clean the stone because this stone unlike the uni you cannot remove it so you can go and just soap it up but that's actually much better because soaping up and scrubbing stone is i realize it's bs what you need to do it's actually self-cleaning which is amazing for lazy people like myself so

5:25 you switch it on you make this go full blast which you would need to do anyway before any cook to get it to temperature we let the plane pass when you get to 400 degrees you'll see that all the debris and all the dirt is just going to turn into dust and practically disappear so this will actually clean itself you store it dirty because you finish your pizzas and then you store it but then it cleans up before you make your next pizza on your next cook things i wish i knew there are not too many things i wish i knew when i got this because actually it was really easy but a few things i think are important first of all the accessory this already comes with a peel like we discussed but you also want to buy an infrared gun because you want to know what temperature the stone is so that's

6:11 something that before you cook for the first time you want to buy secondly the gas canister i spent so much time thinking what gas kind of should i want do i want the big one do i take the five kilo one then i have to end up changing it all the time i'm really glad i got the five kilo one because it's a lot more portable it's about this high and like i said before over 15 session of cooking so that's plenty if you had the bigger one it's more expensive you're probably not going to use it it's going to take you ages to finish it then if you need to carry it around it's again heavier so that's an important thing the other thing which i think is important for you to know though is that between one pizza and the next pizza you need to let some time go by so

6:57 what i use is for the first time last summer for my daughter's birthday and i was making a pizza party for all the girls and i realized that after the first pizza the other pizzas the base was not cooked the way i wanted it because at the end of the day this stone is not a professional stone it's still relatively thin so when you put a pizza in the sun temperature is going to drop so when you get the pizza out before putting the next pizza in you need to have the stone up the temperature so what i do is that i would tend to put the fire to the max five minutes you get again to the 400 degrees you want you lower it because i find it's easier to cook it in a lower heat it doesn't burn the top as much and then you make your next pizza in that case then you're all set you're

7:42 gonna make fantastic pizza time over time every time or time and i'm gonna be doing this review again in six months time after a year after maybe 200 pizzas but to be honest i'm so impressed by this little gadget that i'm sure is going to end up being a very similar review to this we're gonna say that the quality is amazing and the pizzas are fantastic so i hope you enjoyed it if you do please put a thumbs up subscribe to the channel we usually don't do lots of reviews we do more recipes but we're gonna try to mix it up going forward ciao you