Hot Stuff: Ford F800 Fire Truck Transformed into Mobile Pizza Oven!
Fire Truck Pizza of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, bakes its pizzas on the street with help from F800’s pair of wood-fired ovens out back.
In towns and cities across the United States, food trucks are rolling out to feed office workers and foodies alike. What once was confined to job sites in a few cities has exploded into a big business. There are even a few Ford trucks getting in on the action, usually pulling the trailers serving all sorts of fine treats.
How many Fords do you know, though, where the truck itself is as stunning as the food is delicious? According to Wisconsin newspaper Sawyer County Record, one such food truck exists in Eau Claire, Wisconsin: a Ford F800-turned-rolling-pizza-oven.
Fire Truck Pizza is the brainchild of owner Bill Konkoly. According to the newspaper, Konkoly came up with the idea six years ago, having installed pizza ovens in a few restaurants and another Ford truck. Thus, he sought out, found, and purchased a 1982 F800 fire truck, formerly owned by the town of Marengo, Wisconsin, located an hour west of the Wisconsin-Michigan border.
Once used to help put out fires, Konkoly’s Ford fire truck now makes fire. Specifically, a pair of ovens mounted in the water tank receive fuel to burn from the stack of firewood stored beneath the front oven.
Clients book Konkoly’s Ford pizza truck for everything from corporate events to weddings. On the day Sawyer County Record caught the truck, though, it was in Hayward, Wisconsin at the American Birkebeiner cross-country ski race. All of that skiing needs fuel, after all. What better way than with a slice of wood-fired pepperoni pizza from big red fire truck?
The Ford fire truck is such a crowd-pleaser, it was voted the second-most popular food truck in Eau Claire magazine Volume One‘s “Best of the Chippewa Valley 2020” awards. Not a bad way to be, especially for a former fire truck cooking up some wood-fired delicousness.
Photos: Fire Truck Pizza; Facebook/Fire Truck Pizza
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