Peels, stones and tools
Gozney accessories worth buying, by model
A deliberately short range, and the best-documented one in the category. Gozney publishes a fabric weight and a glove certification where its rivals publish adjectives - which also makes the gaps easy to see.
The short answer
Buy the gloves and the cover cut for your exact model, then buy everything else from someone other than Gozney. The Gozney gloves are the best-documented in this category — 950 F for up to 15 seconds, tested to EN407, with a 14 in gauntlet cuff. The covers are the only ones here that publish a fabric weight (350 gr/m2 PVC-coated polyester). Beyond those, Gozney's Amazon range does not cover the two tools that matter most, and third-party is the honest answer.
Gozney's range is short on purpose
Compared with Ooni's accessory range, what Gozney sells through Amazon is a small list: gloves and a cover for each oven. That is not a criticism, and for a buyer it has one real advantage — there is very little to get wrong.
What is genuinely unusual is how much Gozney publishes about the few things it does sell. It is the only maker on this site that states a cover's fabric weight, and one of only two that gives a glove rating a duration rather than a bare temperature. That makes its claims checkable, which is the standard this site judges by.
How we ranked these
- Is the fit or the rating published? A cover that names the exact oven and a glove that names a standard and a duration can be checked. One that does not cannot.
- Does it solve a problem the oven has? A cover on an oven that lives outdoors does. A branded version of a tool that works identically for a quarter of the price does not.
- Would we buy Gozney's, or someone else's? Asked honestly on each item. Twice the answer is someone else's.
As everywhere on this site, we have not used these tools. Every figure below is the maker's own published specification, linked on each write-up so you can check it.
Covers: three ovens, three covers, one easy mistake
| Cover | Fits | What is published |
|---|---|---|
| Gozney Arc XL cover | Arc XL only | 350 gr/m2 PVC-coated polyester, water repellent, UV stable, toggle straps plus a base pull tag. Gozney lists rain, wind, frost, UV, salt and wildlife |
| Gozney Arc cover | Arc only | The same 350 gr/m2 fabric and fastening, cut smaller and priced lower |
| Gozney Roccbox cover | Roccbox only | PVC-coated polyester with front and rear drawstrings, and a heavy-duty strap that doubles as a carry handle. Fabric weight not published |
| Arc Lite | No Gozney cover in this range | The gap in the lineup. A third-party cover is the option, sized to a 12 in oven |
Gozney cover fitment and what Gozney publishes about each.
The Arc and the Arc XL take different covers and the names differ by two letters. They are genuinely different ovens — 14 in and 47.5 lb against 16 in and 58.5 lb — so the wrong one either will not close or will flap. Check the model badge rather than the memory of what you ordered; Arc against Arc XL covers how far apart they actually are.
The Roccbox cover is the only one in this category that does a second job. A strap turns it into a carry handle, which is worth something on the one oven here designed from the start to be carried.
Quick picks
Ranked for fit, not for hype. Every figure below is the maker’s own published number, and “n/p” means they do not publish it — which is itself worth knowing. Tap a row for the full write-up, or go straight to the listing.
| # | Oven | Best for | Max pizza | Weight | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Gozney glovesThe same 950 F for 15 seconds as the Ooni, but Gozney names the standard it was tested to and publishes the cuff length. | The longest published cuff, with the certification named | n/p | n/p | $39.99 · Check on Amazon |
| 2 |  Gozney Arc XL coverGozney is the only maker here that publishes a fabric weight: 350 gr/m2 of PVC-coated polyester, with toggle straps a... | The Gozney Arc XL | n/p | n/p | $59.99 · Check on Amazon |
| 3 |  Gozney Arc coverThe same 350 gr/m2 PVC-coated polyester as the Arc XL cover, cut for the smaller oven, and cheaper. | The Gozney Arc | n/p | n/p | $49.99 · Check on Amazon |
| 4 |  Gozney Roccbox coverThe only cover here that does a second job: a heavy-duty strap turns it into a carry handle, which matters on the one... | The Gozney Roccbox, and carrying it | n/p | n/p | $34.29 · Check on Amazon-31% |
| 5 |  Etekcity 1080Reads to 1130 F with adjustable emissivity. | Reading a stone that is actually at 900 F | n/p | n/p | $24.99 · Check on Amazon |
| 6 |  CBO 9 in turning peelA 9 in round head on a detachable long handle. | Turning without dragging | n/p | n/p | $24.95 · Check on Amazon |
Max pizza and weight are the makers’ published figures, sourced on each write-up below. Neither is a measurement we took, and no column here is a score — we have not cooked on these ovens and will not pretend otherwise.
Top pick · The longest published cuff, with the certification named
Gozney Heat-Resistant Gloves 14"
Gozney · Accessory
The same 950 F for 15 seconds as the Ooni, but Gozney names the standard it was tested to and publishes the cuff length. Suede rather than leather, and a full 14 in up the forearm.
Published specification
- Rating
- 950 F / 500 C for up to 15 seconds
- Certification
- EN407
- Material
- Suede with soft internal lining
- Cuff
- 14 in gauntlet
- Dimensions
- 355 x 175 x 15 mm (14.0 x 6.9 x 0.6 in)
What it does well
- Names the standard: EN407. That turns a marketing number into a test someone else ran
- The 14 in gauntlet is the longest published cuff here, and reaching into an oven mouth is a forearm problem before it is a hand problem
- Gozney publishes the actual dimensions in millimetres, which is more than most makers of anything publish about a glove
- Suede grips a hot handle better than a smooth leather palm once it has been used a few times
What you give up
- Suede stains permanently and cannot be washed
- A 14 in gauntlet is deliberately bulky, and bulk is the enemy of feeling what you are holding
- The most expensive pair on this page
- Same 15-second limit as the Ooni. Longer cuff, not longer contact
Buy it if
Anyone who wants a certification named rather than a temperature asserted.
Skip it if
Detailed work where you need to feel the peel handle.
Pick 2 · The Gozney Arc XL
Gozney Arc XL Pizza Oven Cover
Gozney · Accessory
Gozney is the only maker here that publishes a fabric weight: 350 gr/m2 of PVC-coated polyester, with toggle straps and a pull tag that closes it around the base rather than leaving it to flap.
Published specification
- Fits
- Gozney Arc XL
- Fabric
- 350 gr/m2 100% polyester, PVC coated
- Claim
- Water repellent, UV stable
- Fastening
- Toggle retention straps, plus a pull tag to tighten around the base
- Protects against
- Rain, wind, frost, UV, salt, insects and wildlife, per Gozney
- Fitted dimensions
- Not published
What it does well
- Publishes a fabric weight, 350 gr/m2, which is a real specification rather than an adjective
- The pull tag closes the cover around the base of the oven — wind getting under a cover is how covers end up in the next garden
- PVC coating over polyester is the construction used on serious outdoor covers rather than a laminate that peels
- Gozney names salt in its protection list, which matters more than it sounds if the oven lives near the coast
What you give up
- Water repellent, not waterproof. Gozney uses the stronger word for the Roccbox cover and the weaker one here, and the difference is not decorative
- Publishes no fitted dimensions, so whether it clears the oven on a stand is not answerable from the specification
- One of the more expensive covers here, on top of an oven that is not cheap
- Gozney sells separate Arc and Arc XL covers — they are not interchangeable, and the names are one character apart
Buy it if
An Arc XL owner who leaves it out between cooks.
Skip it if
The smaller Arc, which has its own cover.
Pick 3 · The Gozney Arc
Gozney Arc Pizza Oven Cover
Gozney · Accessory
The same 350 gr/m2 PVC-coated polyester as the Arc XL cover, cut for the smaller oven, and cheaper. Buying the wrong one of the two is the easiest mistake in this whole category.
Published specification
- Fits
- Gozney Arc
- Fabric
- 350 gr/m2 100% polyester, PVC coated
- Claim
- Water repellent, UV stable
- Fastening
- Toggle retention straps, plus a pull tag to tighten around the base
- Fitted dimensions
- Not published
What it does well
- Identical published construction to the Arc XL cover at a lower price, because the oven is smaller
- Toggle straps and a base pull tag, so it stays put in wind
- Made by the company that made the oven, which is the shortest route to a cover that actually fits
What you give up
- Water repellent, not waterproof, in Gozney's own wording
- No fitted dimensions published
- Does not fit the Arc XL, and the two product names differ by two letters
- A cover for the oven is not a cover for the oven on a stand — check which you are buying
Buy it if
An Arc owner. Not an Arc XL owner.
Skip it if
The Arc XL, which is a different cover.
Pick 4 · The Gozney Roccbox, and carrying it
Gozney Roccbox Pizza Oven Cover
Gozney · Accessory
The only cover here that does a second job: a heavy-duty strap turns it into a carry handle, which matters on the one oven in this category that was actually designed to be carried.
Published specification
- Fits
- Gozney Roccbox
- Material
- PVC-coated polyester
- Claim
- Water repellent
- Fastening
- Front and rear drawstrings
- Second function
- Heavy-duty strap doubles as a carry handle
- Fabric weight
- Not published
- Fitted dimensions
- Not published
What it does well
- The carry strap is the feature. The Roccbox is the one oven here built to be picked up, and a cover that carries it is a cover you will not leave off
- Front and rear drawstrings close both ends, rather than one drawstring fighting the whole cover
- The cheapest first-party cover on this page
- Gozney describes it as water repellent and adds that it keeps off rain, snow, wind and sunlight during storage
What you give up
- Publishes no fabric weight, unlike Gozney's own Arc covers which state 350 gr/m2
- Water repellent rather than waterproof, in Gozney's wording
- No fitted dimensions published
- A carry cover is not a padded case — it protects the oven from weather, not from being dropped
Buy it if
A Roccbox owner, and especially one who takes it places.
Skip it if
Any other oven — the Roccbox shape is unlike anything else here.
Pick 5 · Reading a stone that is actually at 900 F
Etekcity Lasergrip 1080 Infrared Thermometer
Etekcity · Accessory
Reads to 1130 F with adjustable emissivity. The range matters: a thermometer that stops at 750 F cannot tell you anything useful about a pizza oven floor.
Published specification
- Range
- -58 F to 1130 F
- Emissivity
- Adjustable, 0.1 to 1.0
- Distance-to-spot
- 12:1
- Not for
- Measuring people
What it does well
- 1130 F clears a 950 F stone with margin, which is the only spec that matters here
- Adjustable emissivity is what lets it read dark cordierite accurately rather than defaulting to 0.95 and being wrong
- 12:1 means a usable reading from about 14 in — outside the oven mouth, not inside it
What you give up
- Infrared reads a surface, never an air temperature. The number is your stone, not your oven
- A 12:1 cone averages a wide patch at distance, so stand close and read the center
- Cheap infrared units drift; treat it as a repeatable relative reading, not a laboratory value
Buy it if
Every oven without a built-in stone-temperature readout, which is most of them.
Skip it if
Ovens with a digital floor probe already fitted, like the Ooni Connect hub models.
Where these numbers came from
Pick 6 · Turning without dragging
Chicago Brick Oven 9-Inch Aluminum Turning Pizza Peel
Chicago Brick Oven · Accessory
A 9 in round head on a detachable long handle. It exists to spin a pizza in place, which is the technique that fixes the one-burnt-edge problem in every small oven.
Published specification
- Head
- 9 in round aluminum
- Handle
- Detachable long handle
- Purpose
- Rotate a pizza in the chamber without lifting it out
What it does well
- In an oven with a single rear or side burner, turning is not optional, and a full-size peel is the wrong tool for it
- The small head slides under one edge and pivots, so the pizza never leaves the stone and the stone never loses contact
- A detachable handle is the difference between a tool you store and a 40 in pole you trip over
- Cheap relative to the problem it solves — see the turning technique
What you give up
- Useless for launching or retrieving — it is a third peel, not a replacement
- 9 in is generous for a 12 in oven; in a tight chamber a 7 or 8 in head is easier to work with
- Aluminum marks over time and will not stay bright, which is cosmetic rather than functional
Buy it if
Anyone with a 12 to 16 in oven and a single burner.
Skip it if
Dual-zone ovens where the heat is already even, and indoor electric ovens.
Where these numbers came from
Gloves: the one place a published number is worth paying for
Glove marketing in this category is close to meaningless. Listings advertise 932 F, 1,472 F, 1,800 F, almost always with no stated duration — and a temperature without a time describes a fabric sample in a laboratory, not a hand holding a hot peel.
Gozney publishes 950 F for up to 15 seconds, tested to EN407, with a 14 in cuff. The number is lower than most of the shelf and it is the one that means something: 950 F is the actual peak of the ovens on this site, and fifteen seconds is a real working limit rather than a formality. The full glove comparison sets it against the rest, including the Ooni pair that publishes the same rating.
The two things Gozney does not sell here
Both of them matter more than a branded accessory, and on a Gozney both are third-party purchases.
An infrared thermometer. Your oven's dial reads air near the roof; your pizza sits on the stone, and during preheat those two diverge by well over 100 F. The specification that decides the purchase is the range: it must read past 1,000 F. The most-bought infrared thermometers stop at 716 or 750 F because they were built for griddles and HVAC work, and they will show an out-of-range error on a pizza stone. See the thermometer roundup.
A turning peel, on any single-burner Gozney — which is the Roccbox and the Arc Lite. One edge of the pizza faces the flame for the whole bake, and turning it with a full-size peel means lifting it off the stone and losing the contact that is cooking the base. A 9 in round head pivots it in place instead. The technique is worth two minutes before the first cook.
Peels: size to the mouth, and the brand does not matter
Gozney does not sell a peel through this channel, which is fine, because a peel is sized by the oven opening rather than by the badge on the handle. A 12 in perforated peel is the right head for the Roccbox and the Arc Lite; a 14 in suits the Arc and the Arc XL.
Perforated for launching — the holes shed the loose flour that otherwise burns onto your stone and speckles the base of the next pizza. Solid for retrieving. If you only buy one, buy perforated. Choosing a peel has the full sizing logic, and the 12 in Ooni Signature peel is explicitly listed by its maker as fitting the Roccbox and Arc Lite, which is as close to a published cross-brand fit as this category offers.
What Gozney's two published numbers are actually telling you
350 gr/m2 is the weight of the cover fabric per square meter, and Gozney is the only maker on this site that states it. It is not a waterproofing rating and it should not be read as one - a heavier fabric is a reasonable proxy for how a cover survives UV, wind and a season of being pulled on and off, and nothing more. Gozney pairs it with the honest wording: water repellent, UV stable.
EN407 is the European standard for gloves protecting against thermal risks. The useful part is not the code itself but what naming it implies: the gloves were tested against a published method rather than assigned a number by a marketing team. Paired with a stated duration - 950 F for up to 15 seconds - it is the most checkable claim in a category where most claims are not checkable at all.
Set against that, note what Gozney does not publish: no fitted dimensions on any of the three covers, and no fabric weight on the Roccbox one. Those gaps are real, and they are the reason the covers are ranked by model fit rather than by specification.
Replacement stones are a third-party purchase
Gozney does not sell a standalone replacement stone through this channel either, so a cracked floor is a generic purchase sized to the oven - 12 in for a Roccbox or Arc Lite, up to 16 in for an Arc XL. Buy cordierite, not steel: steel's conductivity is right for a 550 F domestic oven and wrong for a 950 F chamber, where it scorches a base before the top is done. Stones and steels covers the difference and why thickness matters more than brand.
One Gozney-specific note: the Roccbox and the Arc ship with notably thick floors for their size, which is a large part of what you paid for. If one cracks, matching the original thickness matters more than matching the badge - a thinner replacement will change how the oven behaves between consecutive pizzas.
What we would skip, and why
A roundup that recommends everything recommends nothing. These are on the shelf next to the picks above, and here is why they are not on the list.
QVEEQ generic cover
A generic cover on a Gozney. Gozney cuts a cover for each of its ovens and publishes the fabric weight; a cover sold by category rather than by model is telling you it has not been cut for yours. The saving is small and the fit is the entire product.
FITFIV silicone mitts
The 1,472 F number looks like it beats the Gozney gloves by 500 degrees. It does not mean anything comparable: there is no duration, no certification and no statement of what was tested. Gozney publishes 950 F for up to 15 seconds to EN407, which is a claim about a hand rather than a material sample.
The short version, by oven
Roccbox: gloves, the Roccbox cover with its carry strap, a 12 in perforated peel and a turning peel. It is a single-burner oven and it travels, so both of those matter.
Arc Lite: gloves, a 12 in perforated peel, a turning peel, and a third-party cover — Gozney does not make one for this model. At 26.4 lb it is the lightest oven in the range and a stand is not required.
Arc and Arc XL: gloves, the cover cut for your exact model, and a 14 in perforated peel. At 47.5 lb and 58.5 lb a rated stand or table stops being optional if the oven is currently on patio furniture.
And for everyone, the thermometer. It is the one purchase on this page that changes the pizza rather than protecting the oven. If you are still choosing between brands rather than accessorizing, Ooni against Gozney covers what each is betting on.
How these picks were made
We did not cook on these ovens. Every figure on this page is the maker’s or the listing’s published specification, cited on each write-up so you can check it in one click. The ranking comes from matching those published capabilities to a stated use case — space, pizza size, fuel, and how many pizzas you cook in a row. Where a maker does not publish a number, we say so instead of estimating one.
The full version of that argument, including what we deliberately do not claim, is on our methodology page.
