New Oven Alert:

It looks like the folks at Gozney are coming out with even bigger ovens sometime soon:"Dome (Gen 2)" and "Dome XL (Gen 2)".

You can watch Chris Bianco cook 2 pizzas in the Dome XL on YouTube. Watch Tom Gozney (now a sock influencer?) introduce the two ovens as well.

Other Random Bits

NYTimes: Italian Mobster, 16 Years on the Lam, Is Found Working at a Pizzeria:

After the arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro, 60, the police found that, while on the run, Italy’s most wanted mobster had expensive tastes, dressing in designer duds and favoring expensive perfumes. When he was taken into custody at a clinic in Palermo, Sicily, he was wearing a watch estimated to cost about $35,000, prosecutors later said.

Life on the lam was less glamorous for Edgardo Greco, 63, a lesser-known mobster linked to the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta crime syndicate, who was arrested on Thursday. The French police captured him in the early hours in St.-Étienne, a city in east-central France, as he was going to work for his night shift in a pizzeria, where he prepared dough, tomato sauces and pastas

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The Aviation Geek Club: In the early 1960s Soviet Union sold titanium to the US believing they needed it for Pizza Ovens but instead they used it to build the iconic SR-71 Blackbird

With temperatures on the aircraft’s leading edges exceeding 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, dealing with the heat raised a host of seemingly insurmountable design and material challenges. Titanium alloy was the only option for the airframe —providing the strength of stainless steel, a relatively light weight, and durability at the excessive temperatures.