Wood Fired Ovens

[jbj]

That's an excellent looking pizza!



It's easy enough but you do have to chop some wood up in advance, then top the fire up a couple of times before you can cook with it. Then I just add a log after each pizza to keep it going while making the next one.

We only tend to do 2 or 3 smaller pizzas at a time so more likely to be 1 or 2 big ones.

Waste of time for doing that?

The bigger 16inch gas ooni is 500 quid too so I'm torn. I want to make bigger pizzas and the aldi one would look great in my garden but I don't want to buy it then wish I'd stuck with the ease of gas.

 

[Hanglow]

I'd go with gas, I've been looking into adding a gas burner to mine for ease of use, and I like playing with fire. Assuming that bigger ooni gets good reviews, I assume it does

When I was looking there was only the roccbox with gas option in budget, I went with the maximus for a bit of extra space and I thought wood fire= better pizza, but because they burn so hot it doesn't really make a difference to flavour.

 

[MonkeyZero]

How you getting on with it?

We're using ours at least once a week. Still trying to nail the perfect dough.

Aldi are selling a big wood fired oven from tomorrow am. I think I'm going to try and get one - the fyra os a great bit of kit but i wish it was bigger.

I haven't used it in quite a while. Not once this year even. I just don't like the pellets. Wish I had gas. I'd probably use it a lot more.
I bought an Akorn (ceramic egg) grill and I've been using that a ton. Might get the pizza stone and heat diffuser for it and just sell my Ooni.
I'm with you, I want bigger pizzas. The Akorn will get up to 700 degrees easily so it would work well and I wouldn't have to turn the pie at all during cooking.

 

[jbj]

Ooni are putting the prices of their ovens up from the 1st of October so I've ordered the 16inch gas one

Looking forward to being able to make bigger pizzas, one issue I've had is having to keep it small enough to fit in the 12inch oven.

Sidenote, I'm doing a healthy eating topic with some seniors jist now. We got round to talking about breaking down the cost of ingredients and I mentioned my pizzas.

Dominos, pizza hut, papa John's etc... Are charging close to £20 for a "large" 12-13 inch pie.

I worked out I can make a similar pie for £1-2 depending on the topings and that's using Caputo flower and quality mozzarella.

 

[Hanglow]

Not just cheaper but I imagine dominoes etc are loaded with a lot more fat, sugar and salt.

Made these a few weeks ago, looking forward to some drier weather so I can use it again.