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In January 2020, college friends Gaurav Mehra and Satish Chauhan founded Visor Refractory, specializing in manufacturing refractory monolithic products. The lockdown in March 2020 provided them with an opportunity to brainstorm and diversify their product line. They conceived the idea of “Smoky Cave,” a wood fired brick pizza oven made from refractory materials directly targeted at consumers. Despite initial setbacks with the first five ovens due to material and design flaws, they persevered, relaunching successfully in September 2021. Since then, they have established partnerships with numerous restaurants and farmhouse owners.

Their ovens, built with refractory material and featuring a thick thermal mass and insulation layer, reach temperatures of up to 600-700 degrees Celsius, ideal for cooking Neapolitan style pizzas and retaining heat. Wood fired pizza oven are renowned for imparting a unique smoky flavor due to the wood smoke from internal fires. Moreover, these ovens cook pizzas quickly, preserving the freshness of toppings compared to traditional pizza ovens that can dry out and burn toppings if not monitored closely.

The company expanded its product range to include the “Piccolo,” the smallest and lightest brick oven at 135 kg, eligible for delivery across India. They have filed a patent for this oven and innovatively designed brick oven on vehicles, enabling mobile wood fired pizza sale. Their mission is to become a leading manufacturers of wood fired and gas pizza oven in India, continually enhancing performance through innovative energy-saving solutions that reduce environmental impact, costs, and operating times. Embracing traditional Neapolitan oven construction techniques, their company seeks to pioneer innovative solutions in the pizza oven industry.