So, two months after my original OP followed by me completely dismissing an ooni....
Ooni?
Have you seen how much those things cost? I’m not that middle class.
This is just the cleaning firing but the dough is going through the final prove for tonight's pizza.
Cost of this thread so far:
Big blue flour tub as recommended by dickydutch -£15
Silicone rolling mat as recommended by DrP -£8
Ooni Karu - £250
Aldi pizza peel - £8
Hardwood logs 2x£6
Karu gas burner (on order) - £60
Ooni sizzle pan (on order) - £50
Karu carry case (on order) - £40
Gas bottle - tbc
😂
Don’t join the Ooni UK Facebook group your spending will get worse.
Noted Drac.
Still...
It were gert lush. I need to work on my work flow a bit as the second one ended up a funny shape. And that one ^ cooked for slightly too long as Mr TW wasn't ready with the erm.. camera.
Damn good first effort sir. I’ll warn you they’re very addictive steak is a must try they’re incredible.
I want to roast some veg in it tonight but I'm struggling with what container to use. Most of my stuff is nonstick. Can I use a simple aluminium tray or does it get too hot?
Obviously my #isawyoucoming cast-iron griddle pan is on order so this is just a temporary solution.
I bought a tenner sizzle pan/wood stand off eBay, couldn't stomach the ooni price. Will report back how I get on with it. I have a gas tank now so I can crack on with it.
What a load of nonsense, just cook a pizza in your usual oven and then take it out into the garden.LOL
What a load of nonsense, just cook a pizza in your usual oven and then take it out into the garden.LOL
Masterchef has arrived!
What a load of nonsense, just cook a pizza in your usual oven and then take it out into the garden.LOL
Fair enough. Which Happy Shopper frozen pizza would you recommend 😋
Iceland do a microwave pizza for a quid, must be good.
https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-microwave-pizza-pepperoni-160g/77328.html
Breaking News-You can make your own pizza from scratch and then place it in a standard oven and it will actually cook and be nice.
Aye, but you could also ride an Apollo round your local trails.
I've been making and cooking pizza in my standard oven for years, and fancy a proper pizza oven, surely that's no hard to comprehend, is it?.
smudgey I suspect you are just trolling but the point of these pizza ovens is really the temperature they can achieve.
Yes you can make really nice pizza in the normal oven but if you want to have a proper stab at making quality restaurant standard Neapolitan-style pizza that's cooked in a minute or two you need something like this. Plus it's fun, and can be used in the garden/the beach/trail centre car park etc
I'd also rather not leave the kitchen oven on full blast for ages in a vain attempt to get it hot enough, then make my kitchen into a sweatbox getting pizzas in and out etc
You can also cook sausages in a frying pan, steaks under the grill, and chicken in the oven. Yet we love a barbecue because it's way better and we get to play with fire and everything.
Pizza ovens rock. Kitchen oven pizza sucks in comparison.
Breaking News-You can make your own pizza from scratch and then place it in a standard oven and it will actually cook and be nice.
Yes you can I did for for many a year but now I have a pizza oven. It’s also better for steaks too.
Not being able to afford a proper pizza oven, I've been using the frying pan method and it's really rather good.
https://www.pizzapilgrims.co.uk/2017/06/frying-pan-pizza/
Hiya,
If you have a Chiminea I can tell you how to hack one to work as a pizza oven. It took a bit of hacking with fire bricks and a split half pizza stone but it works really well.
BR
JeZ
No not trolling, its just unbelievable that people spend 100s if not more for these pizza ovens. People shouldn't be having a lot of pizzas anyway as they are not exactly healthy.
I'd rather give my money to a food bank personally than buy one, then lots of other people could at least benefit.
With bikes its different, you need something reasonable so that it doesnt break or be unsuitable to ride. Also hopefully it will benefit your health.
Smudgey - not trolling, just a sanctimonious.
No not trolling, its just unbelievable that people spend 100s if not more for these pizza ovens.
I'm sorry that you're poor.
If you have a Chiminea I can tell you how to hack one to work as a pizza oven. It took a bit of hacking with fire bricks and a split half pizza stone but it works really well.
iz kyureeus. id like to know this please?
Hiya Sadexpunk:
iz kyureeus. id like to know this please?
Right you'll need to raise the level of the sand in the Chiminea first. This is so you can remove the pizza later i.e in line with the lip of opening. When you have done this get some firebricks:
I used ones from Amazon about £21, I used four to create a void underneath to allow embers to heat the stone.
The most important bit though is one of these:
https://www.topstak.co.uk/product/half-moon-ceramic-baking-stone/
Else you won't get it into the opening if your chiminea is like mine.
Finally be careful not to heat the base too much I actually have learnt to light the pizza stone from the side and not too much from the underneath as you'll burn the base before the top is cooked.
BR
Jerry
thanks jezz.
that link shows one of those egg things, so probably a bit more specialized conversion than i was thinking.
i pictured one of these common and garden chimineas and couldnt really picture it. still cant but it doesnt matter 🙂
no-one needs to eat nice food at all. We could all survive on basic meat, boiled veg and potatoes and give the money we save to charity.
sadexpunk
No it's the stone you need to fit into the Chiminea. The Egg you can forget.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/TdgAU4t6vDHsqNvbA
JeZ
Sorry that you are all very gullible. LOL.
It will actually save me money in the long run, as I will be able to spend less time holidaying in Italy. Which will reduce the amount of diesel we use; so it is good for the environment as well.
On the other hand, during this time of severe bicycle shortages, you by owning four bikes, are depriving three key workers of a safe and healthy means of getting to work.
I have 3 now, I've moved one on. They were bought long before the C.V crisis.Theres bikes available at Halfords and bike projects if any key worker wants one for commuting.
Smudgey now might a good time to stop trolling.
No it’s the stone you need to fit into the Chiminea. The Egg you can forget.
ah gotcha, thanks 🙂
Sorry that you are all very gullible.
oh i dont think so, we all know what we're doing, and its not based on finances or saving money. this is a lifestyle choice, thatll cost a fair bit of wedge but gives us enjoyment (and slightly better pizzas than a bog standard oven).
First go. Family round. Chuffed!
Takes a bit of getting used to how to not set it on fire during the bit where it's hard to turn cos it's still floppy. Great device though.
0ooh looks lovely Grum!
We had lemon and rosemary chicken with garlic and rosemary roast veg tonight. All beautifully wood fired in the ooni.
I lost my sense of smell and a significant
ability to taste about 6-7 years ago to a virus (long before it was fashionable). I still really enjoy good food but I tend to look for textures to make it interesting; such as perfect, crispy on the outside soft in the middle pizza.
However, I can still detect certain things; burning oils for example. The consultant told me that I'm not smelling them as such it is my tastebuds that are detecting them. My brain just decides to interpret it as a smell.
Tonight the smell of wood-fired food really invoked a memory for me. It made me think of a specific moment in a specific (to be honest not particularly good) restaurant in Bourg Saint Maurice.
It might be it was just the hot oil from the rosemary that I coukd taste on both occasions but it was very emotional to have a memory triggered entirely by what I think of as a smell.
Fired ours up again tonight used an Italian 00 flour with an eight hour rest time then portioned with a further 5 hour test. The difference in the dough was an amazing.
Grum it the stone is at 400c to 500c it’ll firm base up while the crust rises. Don’t push the pizza too far back or it’ll burst into flames.
drac, whats your recipe? 8 hours and then another 5 when divided seems a long time. room temp or fridge? and is it sourdough?
I just use the Ooni recipe it was room temp but for 24 it sits in the garage as it’s cooler. No sourdough just normal dough it’s absolutely spot on. 8 hours is far from a long time.
I use the foodgeek sourdough recipe and it took about 6 hours initially then another 24 in the fridge once it's portioned up
Forgot to say portioned up it went in the garage. Our fridge is usually full so can’t fit it in
Curious.
Which part of the pizza I make is not healthy in a balanced diet ?
Strewth!!, they look very burned and inedible.
If you had cooked them in a standard oven on say gas mark 6 they would have cooked without being burned to a cinder. You're not putting up anything that would convince me that a pizza oven was anything more than a load of ****
Smudgey its clear you want one but your parents won't let you get one. Stop looking at this thread uts clearly making you sad. Now, if you play nicely may be you'll get an invite to play and have a pizza for tea.
By the way, they're bloody awesome.
Strewth!!, they look very burned and inedible.
If you had cooked them in a standard oven on say gas mark 6 they would have cooked without being burned to a cinder. You’re not putting up anything that would convince me that a pizza oven was anything more than a load of ****
So roughly translated as ... I don't have a clue about them but I have an useles opinion.
I suppose smudge likes his pizza to look like the ones you get from Early Learning Centre!
Now, if you play nicely may be you’ll get an invite to play and have a pizza for tea.
Please don’t feed the troll.
Aye, ignore him, he's a fud.
Anyone got a turning peel? I don't find it easy to turn with a regular pizza peel but the turners seem very expensive and currently hard to find. Is it worth it?
I prefer the look of the gozney one over the ooni but I thought there would be a cheapo option!
