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I bought an Ooni karu 12 pizza oven

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£239 black friday deal.

A lot of money for a tin box and a ceramic tile but you can't take it with you.

Have to say as an ex sheet metalworker that worked with stainless quite regularly it is well made. A lot of money must have gone into the tooling for the pressed parts.

Arrived in 2 days bought direct just unpacked..
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It'll never be this clean again
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the bits that come off. Chimney does too of course.
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Folding legs seem a good idea
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The name is Karu 12 so I was expecting a 12" stone. nice to see it is 13"
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I have a pizza attachment for the large Weber kettle and it works but you use an awful lot of fuel for just a few pizzas. this thing only has a small fire box and claims to heat up quickly using charcoal and/or wood.
I did look at the gas powered versions then I looked at the cost of gas and bottle rental. No brainer as I prefer real fire anyway. They do make a gas burner retrofit for this oven so the option is still there.

We shall see how it does when I get round to trying it.
 
I’d be very interested to see how well it works.
I’m sure a lot of the bread makers on here will have recipes for pizza bases.
 
If you believe the youtube videos it works really well.

I'm one of those bread makers so dough making is no problem. I'd guess you could run it with a small fire and bake bread in it. One of many things to try.
 
I’ve got an older model I think and use the wood pellets. It uses very little fuel and cooks a pizza in about two minutes. I love it; great to get the kids involved making the pizzas. Top tip is to use loads of extra dusting flour to prevent sticking and don’t leave a pizza that’s had toppings put on it too long before cooking because they can get soggy and sticky. We make the base and as soon as toppings go on it goes straight into the oven. Our first attempts were disastrous but subsequently got it working really well.

Enjoy!
 
I bought the gas powered Ooni Koda 12 some months back. It gets up to 450° in about 10 mins and cooks home made Pizza very well. The only thing I didn’t like about it was that it had a fixed regulator hose with a patio gas regulator. As I have a couple of standard propane cylinders I bought a new regulator and also a quick disconnect gas fitting. I bought a contactless thermometer to check it’s up to cooking temp. It was quite cold outside a couple of weeks ago when I last used it but it still only took 10 minutes to heat up. In use you have to turn the gas down a notch to get an even cook between the base and the topping.

I use Caputo Nuvola flour which makes a very nice Neapolitan style Pizza. 300g of flour and 200ml of water makes two large Pizzas. The best tomatoes we’ve found so far for the topping are Napolina peeled plum.

Enjoy the oven.

PS. The stone will go black when you use the oven but just leave it in there after cooking and the high heat turns any spills to ash which can just be brushed off when it’s cooled down.

Edit: I forgot to say, use semolina flour on the peel, it’s far better than flour to stop the pizza sticking. Caputo make a good one but supermarkets sell stuff that’s good enough.
 
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