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GLOWEN Oven

Wood & Gas Fired Oven.

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GLOWEN Oven

GLOWEN Oven

GLOWEN Oven

GLOWEN Oven

GLOWEN Oven

Wood & Gas Fired Oven.

Wood & Gas Fired Oven.

Wood & Gas Fired Oven.

Wood & Gas Fired Oven.

Grega Ivančič
Grega Ivančič
Grega Ivančič
Grega Ivančič
1 Campaign |
Ormož, Slovenia
$7,239 USD 24 backers
12% of $60,000 Fixed Goal Fixed Goal
Overview
GLOWEN is a wood- and gas-fired stainless steel oven with characteristics of a traditional stone oven. It's best features are: * affordability, * efficiency, * portability, * foldability, * power.

Reinventing the way you cook and socialize

Glowen is a portable, wood (or gas) fired oven made from high grade stainless steel. The idea behind Glowen is that it takes everything that's good about traditional stone ovens and improves on everything that's inconvenient about them.

Let's focus on the good first. Just as traditional stone ovens, the Glowen is: 

1. Extremely powerful, as it heats up to 700°C which allows for really puffy pizzas.
2. Incredibly efficient, capable of burning large, 300 x 100 wood pieces for longer periods of time
3. Big enough to cook multiple large pizzas at the same time in 470 x 580 mm sized cooking area.

Now let's take a look at why Glowen is an improvement from traditional ovens.

1. Foldable and transportable, so you can take it anywhere.
2. Much cheaper than the stone variant.
2. Heats up much faster, from 0 to 700°C in well under 25 min.
4. Removable firebox, allowing you to fire up Glowen with ease outside the chamber.

 

Glowen's extreme heat allows you to make extra puffy pizzas.

 

Glowen is intended for people who love to socialize and cook - particularly those with extended families and lots of friends - as well as for profesional chefs, caterings, restaurants and food truck owners. It's powerful and efficient enough to cook for a large concert; which we have proven at both Overjam festival and Metaldays in Tolmin where we made 4000 pizzas over 5 days in just 2 ovens. However, you can make so much more than just pizza in Glowen. For example, we made burgers, steaks, lasagna, seafood, even desserts.

We want our oven to be as non-restrictive as possible and allow you to make everything your heart (or your belly) desires!

 

Even a complete beginner will need no more than 20 minutes to have Glowen burning up at it's full power. A master chef, much less.

 

We understand there are comparable ovens on the market already, but simply put they are just toys compared to Glowen. 

Glowen is bigger, more powerful and capable of feeding a larger number of people in less time while burning less fuel. This means it saves you more time and money as well as allowing you to be more care-free while cooking since you don't have to load additional fuel all the time. It's easier to light thanks to a removable firebox at the back of the oven and easier to operate because it's superb effciency removes the need for an oven door. Here's a quick FAQ as well as a video about the ultimate test: 700 pizzas in just 10 hours!

 

Is Glowen really the best oven on the market?

Absolutely! The biggest differences are that it's much more efficient and about ten times more powerful. You can literally feed a festival full of people!

 

A full festival?

Yup! We've proven it at many festivals in Tolmin, including MetalDays and OverJam. We baked over 4000 pizzas in 5 days in just 2 ovens!

 

How does Glowen handle that much abuse?

Both ovens were running for full two months and still work as good as new! Glowen is not only powerful and efficient but also incredibly durable.

 

Glowen in action at MetalDays Festival

 

Making 900 pizzas in just 7 hours

 

From stone oven to Glowen

Ever since I was a little kid and my grandma taught me how to make a pizza I wanted to own a wood-fired oven. We never had the room nor the money for such an oven at home. Fortunately though, one of my friends did. While visiting and cooking at their place I figured out there's a lot of downsides to your traditional wood-fired oven. Mainly, it takes way too long to reach the correct temperature as well as it obviously isn't mobile. When cooking for my friends or family I just don't want to be dependent on time, place or anything else really.

After a few long years and many different jobs, I felt like I had enough knowledge and experience to make my dream come true. Before my first concept oven "Martha" I already built a traditional oven from waste material and after that 5 more ovens that never really made it out of the prototype stage.

Martha got a lot of backlash after her first introduction. People laughed and waved it off, saying "that's not going to work". But I didn't let it get to me and soon Martha was ready for testing. It shut everybody right up since it was working much better than even I anticipated.

It was all very bittersweet, though. As it usually is the case with inventions, everybody wanted a piece of the pie. I had to trademark my design as soon as possible and with help from my lawyer friend, I did.

In the following weeks, I extensively tested Martha and quickly figured that I've got a lot more work to do. A few problems needed addressing and production cost absolutely had to be lowered - so I can make my work accessible to many. I started almost from scratch, kept the good, dealt with the bad, added some goodies and Glowen was born.

Prototype Martha (left) and the mighty Glowen (right) on display.
 
 

There is no I in team, but there is an I in Pizza

After many ups and downs, I figured I can't do everything alone, so I decided to recruit my very own team of writers, artists, engineers, programmers and above all - a team of good friends with experience and excellent work ethic. With my all-star team, I know the sky is the limit.

However, we do have a slight problem. If we go down the investor route the price tag of our oven will skyrocket and will only be available to the select few. We don't want that. We want the top-of-the-line state-of-the-art product, but we want it to be accessible to everybody. That's why we chose to kickstart our project with the help of great people over at Indiegogo and we need your help to succeed. We need to raise 60.000 $ via crowdfunding to start our assembly line and ensure top-notch product at an affordable price.

 

 

 

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” 

 

From perfect pizza or a juicy burger ...

... to delicious seafood ...

... of any shape and variety ...

... with Glowen the only limitation is your imagination!

 

 

Intense rising heat forming a gorgeous fire whirl

 

Glowing oven

Cold air enters at the bottom side of the air mixer and travels towards the firebox where it reacts with burning wood, heats up and starts circulating around the chamber. As it raises it cools down and drops back towards the air mixer where it mixes with the remaining hot air and thus the oven "closes" itself and prevents heat to escape. That's why Glowen is extremely efficient and doesn't even need an oven door.

Heat is accumulated at the top of the chamber and in turn, cooks our food. The chimney is lowered as to not allow hot air to escape. There's a small door at the back of the oven where we can pull out the firebox and actually light the oven on the outside. This is not just much easier than most if not all ovens on the market but also much cleaner. After we get the fire going we just slide the firebox back in, wait for the air intake and we can start loading the larger logs from the front.

  At the side, our oven has an opening of sorts which serves as an adapter for all the add-ons, conversions and modifications we have planned for the future. First in the line of many will be our super-efficient gas burner, which is already in production. Following shortly thereafter will be a foldable table, smoker modification and much more! We want our oven to be as non-restrictive as possible and allow you to make everything your heart (or your belly) desires.

 

 

 

 

Here is how Glowen can fold and fire up

 

 

Made in Europe

We don't cut corners when it comes to quality and we always strive to support local artisans. Our customers deserve the best. You deserve the best - so we make the best. No compromises and no half-measures, just quality.

 

 

 

Technical Features

                                                   
 
 

Why crowdfunding?

The idea behind crowdfunding is a simple one: We're making the oven for the people - for you, and we'll let you decide how far to take it. We've already had investors approach us but we had to turn them down because they wanted to put a much higher price on my appliance than we originally intended.

 Money from crowdfunding will go to our personal assembly line so that we can keep a close eye on the whole process and ensure top-notch quality and high standards for every single part. 

We made a rocket. Now we need you guys to be our fuel so we can finish the first part of the story which begins right here and right now.

 

Timeline

                

 

Shipping

Where do we ship? Europe, USA, Canada, South African Republic.

P. S.: Backers from Slovenia can come and claim their Glowen in person with no shipping cost - and get to meet the team in person. If not, shipping across Slovenia will cost approximately 45 €. 

 

When do we start shipping? January 2019

 

Why order now? If you don't there will be no Glowen.

By ordering now you became our golden customer which nets you:

* GLOWEN oven at a discount price (offer available only during our Indiegogo campaign),

* Golden backer card (one time discount on any of our GLOWEN products),

* Your name engraved (if you agree with it) on the first serial number of GLOWEN.

 

Can I help in any other way?

Of course you can! If you're not quite ready to buy a Glowen oven just yet but still want to show your support and help the campaign, you can begin by telling your friends and family about us - or better yet, share the link to our campaign on social media or somebody you think might need or want a Glowen oven. We will be eternally thankful to each and every one of you for any kind of help!

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A simple gesture of support

A simple gesture of support

$12 USD $13 USD (7% off)
We understand. Maybe you don't need or want a Glowen oven (just kidding, of course you do) but you still want to show your support? Select this perk and make our dream come true. Every little bit helps!
Included Items
  • Eternal gratitude (10)
Estimated Shipping
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Pizza kit

Pizza kit

$50 USD $100 USD (50% off)
Those pizzas aren't going to turn themselves! Glowen pizza paddle will help you swiftly and easily turn your pizza while baking as well as move it in and out of the oven almost effortlessly! And we'll even throw in a cheeky brush so you can clean up the mess. Every good chef makes a mess.
Included Items
  • Brush
  • Small pizza paddle
Estimated Shipping
January 2019
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Ships to European Union, United States of America, Slovenia, Canada, South Africa
Glowen Early Bird

Glowen Early Bird

$570 USD $1,299 USD (56% off)
Save 56 % on the best wood-fired oven in the world! Bundle also includes a big pizza paddle, a cool t-shirt and a lifetime discount golden backer card.
Included Items
  • Glowen oven
  • Golden backer card
  • Big pizza paddle
  • Glowen t-shirt
Estimated Shipping
February 2019
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Ships to European Union, United States of America, United Kingdom, Slovenia
Glowen Early Bird

Glowen Early Bird

$740 USD $1,299 USD (43% off)
Save 43 % on the best wood-fired oven in the world! Bundle also includes a big pizza paddle, a cool t-shirt and a lifetime discount golden backer card.
Included Items
  • Glowen oven
  • Golden backer card
  • Big pizza paddle
  • Glowen t-shirt
Estimated Shipping
January 2019
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Ships to many locations.
Double-decker

Double-decker

$1,140 USD $2,598 USD (56% off)
The only thing better than a Glowen oven are two Glowen ovens! Save 56% and get a pizza paddle, a t-shirt and a golden backer card for each of the two ovens!
Included Items
  • Brush (2)
  • Small pizza paddle (2)
  • Glowen oven (2)
  • Golden backer card (2)
  • Big pizza paddle (2)
Estimated Shipping
February 2019
0 out of 100 of claimed
Ships to many locations.

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