“Everything’s bigger in Texas” might be a time-worn cliché, but a mobile restaurant in Hondo has the pizza to prove it. Is eight feet big enough for you? If not, Dirt Road Cookers (DRC) can go even bigger.
Dirt Road Cookers recently landed on People.com after catering a wedding that featured an 8’ pizza cooked on-site as sweethearts Beth and Brandon Duhon tied the knot. But that wasn’t owner/pizza maker Kurt Oefinger’s first time to blow minds with his giant-size round pies.
According to its website, Dirt Road Cookers bakes up “the largest commercially available pizza” for parties, weddings and other events, all under Oefinger’s watchful eye—although groomsmen and party-goers are free to pitch in. It’s a unique selling proposition like few others in the pizza truck business.
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“With our mobile wood-fired pizza oven, we can take our house-crafted sausages, bacon and locally sourced vegetables and ingredients directly to you,” the website states. “Our main goal is to feed the crowd or party, with a variety of pizza flavors on one pizza pie. Our [other] main goals are to entertain people watching us do our job, expand dreams of young minds by letting them become involved, and…give individuals an opportunity to be a part of something that is bigger than themselves.”
Indeed, a 96” pizza is bigger than just about anyone. And judging by the mobile pizzeria’s Instagram page, there’s a particular demand for such fare at weddings these days. In addition to the Duhons’ nuptials, Dirt Road Cookers has made its 8’ pizzas for at least three weddings this year and catered other events, such as an Easter celebration and the Alsatian Festival of Texas in Castroville.
The Duhons’ wedding drew 160 guests, who “watched in awe as the pizza rose to life,” People.com reported.
“One of the coolest moments? The groom enlisted his groomsmen to help with the whole process,” the wedding photographer, Trinity Sorrells, told People. “It took six guys to lift the giant pizza into and out of the cooker—it was a total event in itself!”
“Everyone was fascinated,” Sorrells added. “There was so much excitement watching the process. It even became a group effort.”
The 8’ pizza sells for $800, according to Dirt Road Cookers’ website. There’s also a 12’ option for $2,400. The pizzas can be ordered with any combination of toppings, from pepperoni and sausage to brisket, shrimp and bacon, beer brats and meatballs.
“One 8-foot pizza in the San Antonio area is $900,” Oefinger told Narcity San Antonio in 2022. “Travel fees apply outside of San Antonio and are dependent on location. We’ve had a customer pay $4,500 for us to travel to their event once.”
Oefinger said all of his pizzas are made with 40 pounds of dough, 30 pounds of cheese and 30 pounds of toppings—for a total of 100 pounds. The pizzas cook up as fast as 30 minutes in his custom-built wood-fired pit.
Narcity San Antonio noted that the pies are “as big as an above-ground [swimming] pool.”
