If you truly love pizza, odds are you’ve fantasized about owning a pizza oven. Current has released its latest luxury smart home offering to homeowners and pizza lovers, the Model P Smart Pizza Oven, bringing pizzeria-style pizza to your kitchen or backyard. What sets the Model P apart is how approachable it makes great pizza. You don’t need to be a pizzaiolo. You don’t need to own a backyard. You just need a counter, an outlet, and a craving.
Features
The Model P is an electric, Wi-Fi-connected, countertop solution for pizza lovers, regardless of whether they have a backyard or not. It plugs into any standard outlet and is certified for both indoor and outdoor use, which is huge – especially for people in small apartments or rental homes with strict fire codes. This isn’t just an oven you haul outside for summer. It’s one you can use on a Tuesday night without worrying about ventilation or fire hazards.
Current’s Model P isn’t some featherweight toaster oven; it’s a manageable but solid 31 pounds, with a 17.5”W x 21.2”D x 14.21”H footprint that can take up a fair amount of room on a counter or kitchen island. The build is clean and minimal with brushed steel, modest detailing, and a viewing window that impresses visually as much as functionally.
The Current Model P Smart Pizza Oven retails for $699, is available in Sand or Slate color options, and looks classy on any countertop. Current also offers an official pizza cart on its website along with other accessories.
The Model P includes a 13″ x 13″ cordierite pizza stone, and features high-temp graphite and coil heating elements, along with a dual-pane window that resists heat loss. A 42” long cord makes it easier to position the smart pizza oven in an optimal space as well.
The five pre-set cooking modes – Neapolitan, New York, Thin Crust, Frozen, and Broil – are tailored for specific styles, and we found that the companion app is where the Model P truly leans into its smarts. Through Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, you can monitor internal temperature, set timers, and use the “Pizza Build Calculator” a helpful tool that takes your input (dough thickness, sauce type, cheese, toppings) and suggests specific bake times and temperatures.
Our Testing Experience
TWICE had the opportunity to test out the Current Model P Smart Pizza Oven, and we cooked more than a dozen pizzas of different styles and starting points, including homemade dough, fresh store-bought crusts, and boxed frozen pizzas. The results were consistently impressive.
Pro Tip #1: While some recipes encourage using cornmeal to help pies slide off the peel, we recommend you avoid this and stick to flour. The intense temperature immediately scorched the cornmeal, making our first session smokey. Following testing sessions using only flour on the peel was much better and smoke-free.
Preheat time was around 18–25 minutes to reach 850°F, which is standard for this kind of oven. But once it’s hot, the Model P really moves. A Neapolitan-style pizza was done in just about two minutes, with nicely charred bubbles and a crisp, airy edge. The heat distribution was consistent across the board, and we were pleased to see that the heat was contained very well, with the countertop barely becoming warm beneath the oven.
Pro Tip #2: We found that cooking a plain crust for about 20-30 seconds made things easier for our crew, and cooking went faster and helped the centers perfectly cook even when the temps dropped to the mid-700s because we were going so fast. Waiting for 850 degrees can be hard when you’re hungry!
The New York setting, which uses a slightly lower temperature and longer bake, delivered foldable slices with chewy interiors and crispy bottoms. It didn’t quite match a slice from Manhattan, but it was impressively close, especially for a first-time user. We only wish that we could make larger pies like they do in NYC, as the max cooking area is 12”. Remember to prep your dough the day before for a better NY-style crust!
Our crew agreed that the Frozen mode was the sleeper hit. Cheap grocery store pies that usually sag in the middle came out surprisingly well–no puddles, no soggy crust. Broil mode gave us that final touch of caramelization on cheese and crust that’s tough to pull off with standard ovens, and worked great for reheating slices the next day.
Cleanup was minimal and fairly painless. The stone slides out easily, and the smooth interior surfaces wipe clean without much effort, which was helpful as we smooshed a couple of pies against the back when taking them out of the oven. It was our first time using a pizza peel (sold separately), and it took a little practice to get the hang of it.
We also appreciated the dual-pane window; it didn’t fog up, so we could monitor the crust in real-time without opening the door and dumping heat. One note: there’s no built-in crumb tray, so stray toppings can burn if you’re not careful.
Verdict
The Current Model P Smart Pizza Oven doesn’t just aim to match your neighborhood pizzeria, it wants to bring the whole experience into your kitchen down to the crackle of the crust and the char on the mozzarella. While it’s not going to replace wood-fired ovens for purists, it comes impressively close with none of the mess, smoke, or fire risks. If you are a pizza aficionado, the Model P is an amazing indoor/outdoor smart oven worthy of your kitchen.
For more information, visit currentbackyard.com/products/pizza-oven.
See also: Current Backyard’s Model P Smart Pizza Oven Lets Pizza Lovers “Dough-It’ Themselves
