Guys, start your oven!
A popular little pizzeria in northern New Jersey has taken food truck tradition to the next level by introducing a pair of Tesla Cybertrucks with double ovens to bake bread on the go — and they’re moving fast.
Food trucks have long claimed the nation’s food court parking lot — but it doesn’t look like this.
“It’s quick and easy. “It can be enough to cook a pizza in about two minutes,” Fabio Antonio Arbelaez, a longtime owner of Montville’s Columbia Inn restaurant, told The Post about the electric car’s culinary excellence.
Fresh, hand-made pizzas are baked – not frozen – at high speed on the truck, thanks to conveyor belts and high-powered ovens that solidify the treat and 600 degrees as they pass through the machine.
The electric car is more than they can handle, he added.
Arbelaez, 43, of Lake Parsippany, restores the powerful cars of Elon Musk, which is controversial by installing them in two-layer roasters that run on a 240-volt port.
The 25-year-old pizza maker claims the box-top — the matte-black truck is emblazoned with a sign reading “The Jersey Thinn Crust Pizza” — is the first of its kind in America.
Arbelaez, who earned the nickname “Mr. Tesla” because he was reportedly one of the first in his region to buy an electric car.
“You get a lot of reactions to the truck – about 70% positive,” he added.
As for the other 30%, no one seems to be taking away the food – just something bad, “Tron” is exciting.
“The best compliment I got was that the truck looked like a garbage man,” joked Arbelaez.
“It’s bad, but he does it like nobody’s business.”
They even went viral for a stop at Barstool Sports’ Midtown office in early August.
These two Cybertrucks were acquired last winter to meet the high demand for food from restaurant food trucks. Since then, when firing on all cylinders – or, rather, batteries – electric cars can be combined to produce 120 pies per hour, whether regular or personal.
Arbelaez said the oven can run for up to eight hours at a time, and it can still drive 50 kilometers after the battery runs out.
Arbelaez’s biggest challenge isn’t even installing the 50-by-40-inch ovens, each of which weighs more than 200 pounds — it’s transporting the cooks and ingredients to making space easy to access.
“We’re building a slide for the oven so we can park it in a trailer,” said Colombian-born Arbelaez, who added that they also have room for a refrigerator to hold an ice cooler on the passenger side.
The Cybertruck’s magnet also supports a 50-foot umbrella to cover the work area.
Arbelaez has been an advocate of clean energy and electrical innovation. A Keck School of Medicine study links electric vehicles to reduced air pollution and increased health benefits.
However, some reports suggest that they may not be as environmentally friendly as promised. One found that because EVs are built more heavily than gas-guzzling ones, their tires produce more pollutants than gas-guzzling cars do.
But when the Ford F-150 is toe-to-toe, the first Cybertruck was found in a 2019 study to pollute 100 times less.
The Teslas have already made their way to Parks as far south as Point Pleasant, where they’re also performing at catered events in New York City — meanwhile, there’s already a Hamptons event lined up for the fall.
Recently, the trucks were brought to the Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Somerset County to feed 200 players as they approached the tee box.
This, however, “is only the beginning,” Arbelaez proudly proclaimed. He’s moving a mile a minute to develop the concept even further – with a more futuristic face.
“The goal with Cybertrucks is to eventually deliver them without a driver,” Arbelaez said.
He explained: “Just order it and it will appear in your house. “I’m sorry, but you have to get out of bed and get them.”
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