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Pizza Ovens - How Much?!?!

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Emilypost · 31/03/2023 11:57

Item in The Times about the popularity of specialist pizza ovens and how popular they becoming.
Lakeland £299 -sales up 143% Gozney £1,800, sold out in days.
I accept I am not an expert cook, I make pizza occasionally. It is always eaten up. Would I get much better results from one of these?

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drpet49 · 31/03/2023 16:22

Friend has a Sage Pizzaiolo and her pizzas are delicious.

Housewife2010 · 31/03/2023 16:45

We've had an Ooni for a few years now (back when they were called Uuni). I'd recommend the ones that are powered by wood chips rather than gas for the fabulous authentic woodfired taste.

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Emilypost · 31/03/2023 16:48

Delia Smith adds an egg to her dough and Elizabeth David does not.
Elisabeth uses plain flour.
Recommendations based on experience?

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mindutopia · 31/03/2023 16:51

We have a pizza oven. It’s not one of the well known brands so can’t even remember, but cost about £200. I really like it, but you could replicate the experience in your oven for much less. Pizza stone, quality flour and use course cornmeal to cover bottom of base for extra texture and crunch.

One of the issues with many of the commercial pizza ovens (as opposed to building your own) is that the heat is from the bottom. In a proper pizza oven, heat comes from top and sides too.

mindutopia · 31/03/2023 16:52

I don’t add an egg to mine, but worth experimenting to see which is better.

newusern1 · 31/03/2023 16:53

Emilypost · 31/03/2023 14:58

Thanks for all the comments, I am going to try a stone in my oven and make pizza a regular dish.
How many of you use strong flour?
I cannot get on with wholemeal flour. Seems to go dry on me.

Even if I make my pizza dough and do everything the same when I cook the pizza in the oven they taste nowhere near as good as when done in the ooni. Admittedly we don't use a stone in the oven as when I used to in the past I found that the pizza stuck to them all the time.

You can use supermarket pizza in a pizza oven but I don't think I would buy one to do that. I haven't tried it but for me the advantages of a pizza oven other than taste is the ability to make dough from scratch with no additives or preservatives etc. Supermarket pizza taste much nicer in the oven than my homemade pizzas do. Homemade pizzas in the pizza oven taste as good as takeaway wood fired pizza (or better if you don't burn it at all).

newusern1 · 31/03/2023 16:55

caringcarer · 31/03/2023 16:19

@eurochick, we got one in lockdown as well. One of the best purchases we ever made. We use strong flour. DH makes the dough and a fabulous tomato sauce. We even make a mozzarella stuffed crust. The difference between the pizzas from pizza oven and the ones we used to make in oven is huge. Pizza ovens go to such high temperature so pizza cooks and dough rises in about 5 mins per pizza. We send DH our orders and he makes them. Lovely in summer or if guests come. My niece is often inviting herself over if she knows it's pizza for dinner.

Our pizzas cook in 1-2 minutes in the ooni gas pizza oven.

Moveforward · 31/03/2023 16:55

They are not necessary but ours was better than I'd expected

I bought an Ooni fyra in 2022 January sales for my 2022 summer birthday. Cost just over £200 and probably nearer £300 with wood pellets and all.the accessories.

We ended up taking it out to use at Easter as the weather was good but life was miserable. It was fab! It gets to a very high heat so what you cook is different than an oven cooked pizza. They are easy to make and sooooo quick. We have two pizza parties with it and everyone had a great time and always remembers the evenings fondly.

We also took it on a self catering holiday and that saved a fortune on going out when the family all.got together.

I put it away for the winter, along with the stored garden furniture and gazebo.....we all can't wait for the weather to.improve and start making pizzas again!

So.what I thought would be a fad has turned out to be very popular indeed! And overall if compare it to eating out it doesn't take long to recoup the money and they are THAT GOOD you can compare to a good restaurant pizza.

cherrypied · 31/03/2023 16:58

We had a self built wood fired oven and then replaced it with a gozney

It's great. Download pizzapp for dough recipes/ quantities / proving times.

Watch peddling pizza videos to learn how to mark the basic pizza.

IAmInMeHoop · 31/03/2023 16:59

Lockheart · 31/03/2023 12:00

Unless you are an Italian restaurant, you don't need a pizza oven.

Hard disagree. If you really love pizza, you definitely need* one.

The Ooni is a total gamechanger.

OhBeAFineGuyKissMe · 31/03/2023 17:00

Another Ooni owner. For us we use it in the same way we use the bbq. In the summer, eating outside, often with friends and family. We sometimes only have the bbq, sometime sonny the pizza over and sometimes both!

It isn’t just the temperature it is the wood smoke as well, same as a gas bbq tastes different to a charcoal one.

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 31/03/2023 17:12

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generalexpert · 31/03/2023 17:13

Another vote for ooni. Use it more than the BBQ now.

Go light on the toppings for best results. Also go for the gas bottle - less hassle.

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Emilypost · 31/03/2023 17:15

Eh? What?
EineReiseDurchDieZeit · Today 17:12
Interesting to watch Micah turn on Irina when she has become dispensable

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EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 31/03/2023 17:18

Yeah I reported it as the wrong thread and as you can see I had it removed

Paddingtonthebear · 31/03/2023 17:24

We have a gas Roccbox (Gozney). Bought a few years ago. As PP say, you need to be invested in preparing the dough properly and it takes a lot of practice to perfect your pizza, but it’s worth it. The only thing I would say is that it’s hard to all eat together as you do one at a time and the chef is always out at the oven, you can’t turn away, they cook so fast. IMO the Roccbox is better than the Ooni, we’ve used both. Roccbox I think is easier to move around, has the thermometer, better insulated and the overall shape is better for getting pizza in and out.

reluctantbrit · 31/03/2023 18:27

Emilypost · 31/03/2023 16:48

Delia Smith adds an egg to her dough and Elizabeth David does not.
Elisabeth uses plain flour.
Recommendations based on experience?

I don't think I ever saw an egg in a pizza dough.

We use bread flour for the Roccbox recipe. The big difference I found in their recipe is that you mix the warm water with the sugar and then add the dried yeast and let it froth for around 10 minutes.

The Roccbox dough is a lot softer compared to the dough I use for my normal oven.

PleaseJustText · 31/03/2023 18:27

I keep eyeing up pizza ovens then changing my mind. We do make pizzas once a week so it's probably worth it but I haven't been able to bite the bullet.

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Moveforward · 07/11/2024 13:27

I've an ooni and love it.

So much easier than a bbq although speed of cooking does detract from outdoor leisurely cooking.

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