I am getting a ton of ads for gas fired pizza ovens. It’s huge and seems really impractical given how often one might actually make pizza and the fact and oven works for making pizza.
Anyone have one? The advertising is drawing me in even if I practically think where the heck would I even store it.
Convince me I do/ don’t need a dedicated 9cu ft pizza oven.
There are at least 4 commercial pizza ovens in even small towns where you can use the device you’re holding and engage said ovens and have their products sent to you within 40 minutes.
We have an Ooni, and it is great. Very portable and great for do it yourself pizza parties.
How do you currently make pizzas? Do you like how they turn out?
My usual way to make pizzas, prior to our kitchen renovation (since we don’t have the new range in yet) is
During summer months and when our oven is out for our renovation I use our Breville SmartAir toaster oven. Turn up to 475 with the pizza stone on 2nd highest and cook. Takes longer than a conventional oven and the crust is a somewhat different texture, but the pizza is still better than 99% of what I can order locally. I’ve seen no need to get a dedicated pizza oven.
Ooh maybe what I need is a pizza stone…
I just use a pizza pan with lots of holes in it and it creates little cooked dough bits in places I do not want them.
I feel like my pizza making game could be upped - but the biggest issue is a gluten free husband. I have a pretty good gluten free crust but not great.
Ooh maybe what I need is a pizza stone…
I just use a pizza pan with lots of holes in it and it creates little cooked dough bits in places I do not want them.
I feel like my pizza making game could be upped - but the biggest issue is a gluten free husband. I have a pretty good gluten free crust but not great.
Definitely look at Fibrament. You can only order online. Smells awful the first time you “season” it. I went with it based on numerous web recommendations. It’s been defect free for well over 5 years (previous stones have cracked on me).
Ooni.
Do you have a gas grill? If you do, put a stone or steel in that and you’ll be close.
Ooh maybe what I need is a pizza stone…
I just use a pizza pan with lots of holes in it and it creates little cooked dough bits in places I do not want them.
Good Lord No!
I have been doing home made pizza on a weber kettle since summer 2020. Typically 1x per week in summer months. Pizza stone and a pizza peel. Possibly not as good as an ooni.
Have you seen the https://www.kettlepizza.com/ for the Weber Kettle grill? Have been considering one but for now do well with a stone in our Primo oval.
But to the OP, no to a gas fired pizza oven.
I think they are neat. I have a few friends that have oonis and love them. To me, a pizzza oven isn’t about day to day cooking, but more of an entertainment feature. We’re negotiating the parameters of our upcoming reno/addition and most of it will be nominally outdoor space. I’m pushing hard for a real brick wood fired pizza oven as a kind of centerpiece of the outdoor area, but thus far my wife is unconvinced that is necessary or even desirable. We will see.
Stop calling it a pizza oven. They’re used for baking and roasting, it’s an outdoor oven that allows people to cook staples outside on the hotter days of the year. Pizza is just an additional benefit of having a wood fired oven. Luckily, my wife wants one but I think we’re going to build ours something like this. The base in the video is overkill IMO.
like this,