Shaan 30" Commercial Gas Tandoor Clay Oven — ETL Certified

The 30 inch is what you order when the 32 will not fit. Most kitchens that end up here have measured the gap between a prep table and a range and come up two inches short, or have a doorway that decides the question for them. It is the same oven as the 32 in build and output, in a body that goes where the 32 cannot.

Measure before you choose, not after. The number that matters is not the oven's width but the clear span it has to pass through on delivery day and the width of the run it will live in, including the space to swing the mouth cover and stand beside it with a skewer. A tandoor that fits the floor plan but not the doorway is a problem that gets solved with a saw.

Underneath, this is the same machine as the rest of the range: a 2 inch stone clay wall braced with metal rings, triple-layer insulation, a hardened inner surface, a stainless shell on 4 inch swivel casters, and a single ring burner with a gas safety valve, thermocouple and pilot igniter on a 1/2 inch female threaded inlet. Made in the United Kingdom by Tandoori Oven Ltd. US and Canadian distribution is held by Nishi Enterprise Inc, whose South Plainfield, New Jersey warehouse carries the wear parts.

Features

• Fits a cookline that will not take the 32 inch — same build, same construction, a narrower footprint
• 2 inch stone clay body — the thermal mass that decides how fast a tandoor comes back between batches
• Triple-layer insulation — heat stays in the clay instead of radiating into the aisle behind it
• Metal ring reinforcement and a hardened inner face — the clay is held against the expansion and contraction of daily firing
• Pilot igniter and thermocouple on the safety valve — gas is cut the moment flame is lost
• Supplied on natural gas, convertible to propane
• Casters mean the oven moves for cleaning, rather than cleaning working around the oven
• Ships with the naan pad, a stainless mouth cover and a pound of maintenance clay

Certification

Two marks, two inspectors. ANSI Z83.11 with the ETL Listed Mark and CAN/CSA-1.8 with the cETL Listed Mark cover the gas side; NSF/ANSI 4 with the ETL Sanitation Listed Mark covers the sanitation side. Either can be looked up by company name in Intertek's Directory of Listed Products, under Tandoori Oven Ltd or under Nishi Enterprise Inc.

Listing is routine for almost every other piece of equipment in an American kitchen, which is why nobody advertises it. Tandoors were the exception — for years they came in as an unlisted import and the gap surfaced at permit time. January 2009 is when that changed: Shaan was the first tandoor anywhere to hold both marks.

Installation

Ventilation is a Type I commercial exhaust hood, per the International Mechanical Code and NFPA 96. Gas work goes to a licensed installer under NFPA 54, and your supply pressure may call for a regulator. Clearances to combustible material are in the manual and in your local code. Shipping is freight, a liftgate is worth booking without a dock, and since this model is usually chosen on fit, measure every doorway on the delivery route against the crated size — not just the last one.

Specifications

No warranty is offered on the clay pot. Hairline crazing is a natural characteristic of fired clay under repeated heat cycling and does not affect cooking; the maintenance clay supplied with the oven is for exactly that.