Why Pizza(can)?
Second semester of my industrial design program: we had a course requiring us to build any kind of custom barbeque we wanted, in order to get to know working with metal in the workshop.
We (Manuel Kronfeldner, Lukas Bolesch, Nicolas Prinz and me) decided to do a portable pizza oven. When thinking about the concept, we wanted to build a quick prototype to test its real feasibility.
Looking on a local online second-hand marketplace, we found this jerry can which we could pick up the same day. So we got going in developing the prototype.
The Prototype
The pizza from this first test was delicious, even though it was just a ready made pizza kit from the grocery store round the corner.
This led us to fully embrace the jerry can idea by adding clever details:
- A portable pizza oven to take anywhere
- The top doubles as a stand and a secure fire container
- The bottom is the oven itself, of course containing a real pizza stone
- A wooden cutting board features an integrated pizza spatula
The finished version
We added some more cool details like the integrated chimney, which tremendously helps moving the air / smoke through the oven
Also the locking mechanisms fit the industrial style of really well.
All in all this was a very lucky project, involving a lot of workshop time and figuring out the details. Somehow all fell into place one after another. I really enjoyed working with metal and eating all of that delicious pizza while evolving the concept.
. . .Some more impressions
