Thinking of buying one. It’s cheaper than building one and uses charcoal, wood or gas. I would probably place it outside, next to my grill.



https://ooni.com/collections/ovens/products/ooni-pro

Not familiar with these. Are they good for other things aside from pizza?
I just use a cast iron pan as a pizza stone and I put it in my regular oven. Cast iron retains heat and that makes it pretty damn good for baking.
Building pizza oven out of bricks seems more fun than buying.

Yeah, I have a Roccbox. It’s awesome. So far I’ve only made pizzas but I hear it sears a mean steak. The pizzas cook in less than a minute and they’re perfect.

Yeah it’s the easy way for sure but that’s kind of the idea. I am not sure I want to build one but I am thinking about it. I have used pizza stones and cast iron pans. But to cook a pizza or flatbread, bake bread that fast seems pretty cool and easy. We have been making our own bread, pitas, naan, pizzas etc at home and want to take it up a notch.

Man you need to sear a steak and report back srs

Looking up Roccbox now. The one I posted is at a local Ace here so I could get it today.

Aw damn this looks cool. Could you use it indoors? Maybe a balcony?

Never phucking mind. Damn this is expensive! I'll stick to a cast iron pan in the oven...

Actually thinking about buying myself one of those for Christmas.

ayyy I actually just ordered a koda 16 for black friday, $360 shipped, pretty good deal I think. It's taking forever to ship though

been looking for a deal on one since I saw the serious eats article earlier this year.

Ooni and roccbox are pretty much the same thing so I don’t think you can go wrong.

Yeah they’re pricey, but the roccbox can get up to like 900 degrees. I use mine in the garage in the winter.

i have an uuni 3, same company before they changed their name

if i could do it again i'd get the pro version or one of the newer models that can bake 16" pies, maybe even the gas powered one, koda 16 i think they call it. the pellets are finicky as hell and honestly make me use it less often than i want to, same goes for the small versions. kinda sucks having to make 2-3 pies instead of just 1 big one

the results are seriously incredible though. it's a one use tool which i'm not huge on but in a home setting, its basically impossible to replicate the results with anything else. making your own doughs and tweaking the recipe is really fun too.

it makes purists really mad but i recommend buying a big pack of appropriately sized parchment rounds off amazon and launching the pies with the parchment then plucking it out after a few seconds of letting the bottom of the crust set. nothing worse than losing a pie while launching and having it fold up onto the stone, making a huge mess

My parents have something similar. Thin crust pizza cooked perfectly in like 90ish seconds. They grow their own basil and tomatoes in summer too. Let’s just say they are popular with the neighborhood for parties. It’s absolutely on my list do get soon.

The one I am looking at gets up to 932 degrees. Being able to cook a pizza in 60 seconds?? Hell yeah.

932 degrees? why is that necessary... who thinks to themselves "holy **** i need a pizza and I need it in 60 seconds" I would absolutely use the **** out of that though

It's cool cause we will have small parties and can make 20 pizzas in like 30 minutes. It takes more like 30-45 seconds to cook these pizzas.

The ultra high temperature is part of getting a proper thin crust pizza.

Ovens in the restaurants I've worked for were always 500.

there is one buried out in the desert

depends where you measure, 900+ dome temps don't necessarily mean 900+ degree floor temps and there's a gradient back to front

personally i find floor temps higher than 800 to be unmanageable

Build bread oven (or however's that called). SRS
So much possibilites and many many hnng meals. You regular 'oven meal' just becomes 10x better. You won't regret it, trust me.

ive been eyeing that one too for a couple months now. ive read wood fired doesnt add any extra taste cuz its only in there for 60 seconds.

yeah the shipping is also lame...2 months. thats the main reason i haven't bought it yet

That’s what I like about it. Family and friends coming over and being able to make homemade fresh, crispy pizzas to go along with whatever is on the grill. Since it’s so fast and I would say taste even better than in the oven, you can make several and have that nice thin crispy crust.