To be bored of wood fired pizzas every week?

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DH got given one of those Ooni pizza ovens for his birthday last summer. Every Saturday right into autumn we would have pizza oven pizza, then tailed off when the weather changed.

It started again around Easter and now - every week without fail - we have one night that is pizza oven pizza.

Thing is, I just don't like it all that much. DH and the kids think it's great but I honestly prefer a shop bought pizza.

I find the pizza oven too stodgy, the sauce gives me heartburn. I can't get excited by it.

My friend has an Ooni oven and raved about it.

What am I missing? Is there something I should be doing toppings wise that will make me enjoy it more?

Off topic but bloody hell I just saw the price for these ovens

We just use a Weber pizza stone (was about £40) in our regular oven. Oven goes to 270 degrees and you just heat the stone well inside. Exactly the same pizza result

About the same price as a normal oven?

Personally I think YABU. I’d consider it a treat, if you don’t then let them enjoy their treat without raining on their parade. Get your own treat if you don’t enjoy theirs!

It's really not. I used a pizza stone in our oven whilst deciding whether to purchase the ooni and the results are nowhere near the same due to the temperatures the pizza oven reaches.

Exactly, and being able to obtain a restaurant result at home when you couldn’t otherwise is why these ovens have become so popular. I like pizzas made in a regular oven, but there’s no denying they’re different.

@hartof - it is. Our friends raved about how good our ooni pizzas are, much better than theirs apparently. Then they found out we don’t have an ooni, just a pizza stone in oven.

for €600 I will spend that on a restaurant pizza and keep making ours on stone in oven. And I don’t have op problems of thinking we have to make it worth it by having pizza every Saturday

I’ll be sure to inform my disabled relatives to dig out their blindfolds.

YANBU to be bored of it.

But you know you don't have to eat it!
make your own dinner or get the Takeaway if that's what you want.
Let the family have their pizzaovenpizza and you have something else.

Nothing wrong with venting, either, if that's all you actually want from.this thread.

Does DH make it? Give him another recipe. No idea what sort of oven you have but the dough should not be rolled it should be stretched after first prove (can do this in the microwave btw, roughly 15 seconds on high), so you throw it about, pull it into shape before placing it on whatever will support it during cooking and then leave it for an hour to prove again if making it that day, otherwise allow to prove in the fridge overnight. When proved spread tomato puree or a home made tomato sauce pver the base and then top with whatever you like. Home made is always better than shop bought IMO, but tastes differ. If DH is doing the cooking let him get on with it and put your feet up with a large glass of wine.

Maybe you could talk with your husband. If you explain how exactly you like your pizza he will surely make you one just like you want it?

We've got an Ooni - I hate pizza. We also have a smoker - I'm really not a fan of smoked food. However, it means that DH does some of the cooking and I'm quite happy to make myself something 😁

It would be quite a boring thread if people either said yes or no…

How odd that someone would start a thread and then proceed to be obnoxious to most people on it. Very strange.

As others have suggested, use the oven to cook other things - the ovens are more versatile than you're giving them credit for. Though you're not BU not to want pizza every week. If you don't fancy it, you don't fancy it.

However,...

I don't understand how the sauce costs a fortune - you can make it yourself for next to nothing. You can make up a quantity and freeze it in batches to use in or as the base for other recipes too, not just for pizza toppings.

Also, try pizza bianca i.e. no tomato sauce, just lovely fresh mozzarella, oil and toppings like:

Potato and rosemary
Potato and Italian sausage (pork and fennel is best)
Courgettes, courgette flowers and marinated artichokes (marinated in oil and use some of the oil on the pizza)
Prawns, garlic and rocket or parsley

There is no limit to the toppings you can try - use your imagination and if you're still unsure, then Google recipes.

And tell your husband you want ready made pizza dough for your pizzas, encourage him to roll the dough tinner for yours or to cook other things in the oven. My husband makes a salmon dish that he and our DC love, I don't like it so I just eat the side dishes when he makes his salmon specialty.

Getting the dough thin enough for my liking is one of the things I struggle with with home made pizza, I just can't do it either by rolling or hand stretching.

Plus the time it takes, which is ages unless you do loads of pre-prep, batch cooking sauce etc.

I've repeatedly seen making pizza described on here as 'loads of fun' which is a matter of opinion, and I seem to be able to tolerate cooking more than the average Mumsnetter, who seem to be doing it mostly out of obligation to their family.

Which is why I've given up trying to make it myself and just go to one of the many pizzerias and 'craft beer and excellent pizza exactly how I like itintarsia in my city and let them make it for me.

Well it seemed like you hadn’t managed to work that out yourself, otherwise why would it still be an issue. 🤷‍♀️

Much as I like pizza, the cost of the oven itself couldn't justify it.

My money's on an Ooni guerilla marketing strategy - if so brilliantly done you should get the pay rise !

To me, it’s a bigger, shinier toasted sandwich maker. It only really makes one thing, the novelty wears off quickly and, unlike the sandwich maker, it won’t fit in the back of the kitchen cupboard.

I would maybe have a go with him, get him to show you how to do it and maybe you could both make a pizza how you both like it. If not liked in the end say you just don’t like home made pizza.

We had a lot less pizza after the first year of having an oven so they will probably sicken themselves of it we did. Getting pan artisan sour dough pizza balls was a game changer for us initially. We actually bought a Gozney oven and these doughs after trying the best pizzas we had ever had, asked the guy all the details. Tried other types of dough but everyone raves about these. They are lovely and easy, we buy them in bulk from a catering firm locally which we used in lockdown. We also sometimes make pizzas with garlic butter, grated mozzarella and balsamic onions as something different which we all love. We do make our tomato sauce in a batch and then freeze which helps.

We followed this video too which helped: