What $14K Buys

Williams-Sonoma will sell you this pizza making rig for $13,499.95.
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/kalamazoo-artisan-fire-outdoor-pizza-oven-and-pizza-station/?pkey=coutdoor-pizza-ovens&
The interior cooking area is 24" by 18", it is gas fired, and rolls around your patio.


An oven of more accommodating dimensions (such as a 30" interior dome) built by me or other qualified masons from real masonry materials would cost about the same.

An oven of much bigger dimensions built as a family or community project would cost much less.

The pictured oven here has these advantages:

1. No burly masons working in your yard.
2. Instant set-up (almost)
3. No messy firewood to cut, split or burn.
4. Your kids can ride on it.

Disadvantages you might consider are:

1. You can make only one small pizza at a time.
2. In x number of years it will be delivered to your local dump.
3. You spent $14K (the cost of an economy car) on pizza?
4. No great-smelling wood smoke to entice your guests.
5. Your kids can ride on it.

As a mason, I can only say that the word 'Artisan' used to describe this device makes it possible for R2D2 to be an artisan mason if the robot had the right firmware.