Gentlemen, light your ovens!
A popular thin-crust pizzeria in northern New Jersey has taken food truck culture to the next level, outfitting a pair of Tesla Cybertrucks with two-tier ovens to fire up pies on the go, and sure enough, they take the fast lane.
Food trucks have long claimed parking spots on the nations culinary scene, but never like this.
She is fast and quick. It has enough power to cook a pizza in about two minutes, Fabio Antonio Arbelaez, a longtime partner at Montvilles Columbia Inn restaurant, told The Post about the sheer delight of the electric car’s kitchen.
Fresh, handmade, unfrozen pizzas are cooked at lightning speed on top of the truck, thanks to a conveyor belt and high-powered oven that bakes the cakes at 600 degrees as they pass through the drive.
Electric vehicles have more than enough power to handle them, he added.
Arbelaez, 43, of Parsippany Lake, repurposed Elon Musk’s controversial hard-angled vehicles by fitting them with dual grills that run on the cargo bed’s 240-volt outlet.
The 25-year pizza veteran claims the lineup of matte black trucks adorned with signs that read “Jersey Thinn Crust Pizza” is the first of its kind in America.
People are shocked enough to see a Cybertruck in public, and then they’re even more shocked by the pizza, said Arbelaez, who earned the nickname Mr. Tesla after reportedly being one of the first in his area to buy one. electric vehicle..
You get a lot of feedback on the truck about 70% good, he added.
As for the other 30%, no one seems to be handing out the food just the clumsy, “Tron”-evoking dish.
The best compliment I ever got was that the truck looks like a bin, Arbelaez joked.
She’s ugly, but she does it like nobody’s business.
They’re even going viral for a stop at Barstool Sports’ Midtown office in early August.
Two Cybertrucks were purchased last winter to handle increased demand for food delivery from conventional restaurant food trucks. Since then, when firing on all cylinders or, rather, batteries, electric vehicles can collectively produce 120 pies per hour, either regular or personal sized.
The ovens can be cleaned for eight hours at a time, Arbelaez said, and he can still travel 50 miles after the battery is discharged.
Arbelaez’s biggest challenge wasn’t even attaching the roughly 50-by-40-inch ovens, which each weigh more than 200 pounds, it was getting the stoves and ingredients into an easy-to-access space.
We custom built a slide out for the oven so when we park we can pull it out, said Colombia-born Arbelaez, who added that they also have space for a cooling unit to hold a dry ice cooler from the passenger side.
The Cybertruck’s tow hitch also supports 50-foot umbrellas to cover the workstation.
Arbelaez has long been a proponent of clean energy and electrical innovation. A Keck School of Medicine study linked electric vehicles to reduced air pollution and increased health benefits.
However, some reports suggest that they may not be the saviors of the environment as promised. One found that because electric vehicles are built much more densely than gas cars, their tires emit more pollutants than fossil fuel cars.
But when toe-to-toe with a Ford F-150 truck, an early Cybertruck was found in a 2019 analysis to pollute 100 times less.
Teslas have criss-crossed the Garden State as far south as Point Pleasant, while managing to attend care events in New York City, meanwhile, already have an event in the Hamptons booked for the fall.
Trucks were recently deployed at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Somerset County to feed 200 players as they approach a tee box.
This, however, “is just the beginning,” Arbelaez proudly declared. He is moving a mile a minute to develop the concept even further with a more futuristic twist.
The goal with Cybertrucks is to eventually deliver them without a driver, Arbelaez said.
You just order it and it will show up at your house,” he explained. “I’m sorry, but you’ll have to get off the couch to get them.
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