Lidl Pizza Oven

Do i need to find a store with them in stock?

Works ok with ooni pellets, although you have to shovel the stuff in at a quick rate to keep the temp at 300-350. It won't go above that

Bought one yesterday - used it with chopped hardwood. I had it up to 500C - pizzas were good and popular with a lovely oaky smell.

I got an ooni peel at my local garden centre, for the 16" oven. It was on sale old stock reduced to £5!! I trimmed it to fit with a dremmel. They also had a Landman bbq cover reduced to £5 which Ive trimmed to fit, so the whole setup for £90!!!!

What size hardwood did you use?

About 5 inch lengths in the basket at the back

From the look of the website they also have their big green egg ceramic bbq copy in.  At £120 I'm tempted to see if my local has one but suspect if they did, they won't any longer!

@dantsw13 where did you get the hardwood from? Impulse bought one of these yesterday and wondering the best way to fuel it.

I've tried to use hardwood and could never get anywhere near the heat unlike the pellets, I buy them from the plum centre 1/2 the cost of ooni and just imagine the apple/cherry wood extra flavour

I tried these hardwood sticks today

https://www.lakeland.co.uk/74249/pizza-stix-hardwood-barbecue-kindling

couldn't get temp above 300

I'm beginning to think that one of us might have a dodgy thermostat! 🙂

Even at indicated 350 the pizza's done in 3-5 mins

Not a lidl pizza oven but I've just bought my bro this Gozney Roccbox pizza oven for £319 (20% off), its his birthday this week so he can make pizzas on demand for me (haven't told him that part yet)

If you don't want the full oven, i have the one from Lidl that goes on top of a regular BBQ and it's been excellent

What's the verdict then? not much use if it only hits 300 degrees, surely this gets up to the same temp as an Ooni, it's basically an Ooni copy by the looks of it.

Mine registered 500C on the gauge just using wood. They recommend a mix of briquettes and wood, so will try that.

Pizzas it made were good though!!

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Thinking of buying one as a present for my 16yr old Nephew, are these any good? Would be used with either pellets or could easily chop up some dry wood. Worth getting this or buying a second hand Ooni instead?

If you look around, there are often good prices on Cozze pizza ovens – they have some very minor drawbacks versus an Ooni, but they can be got for very little money and the results are very good. I got one (brand new) last August for £126 (gas powered without the integrated thermostat but with the regulator and hose).

Just had a quick look and the cheapest I could find is £165 which is still a bargain when compared to Oonis. The only real negative is the small opening means it is impossible to do Calzone pizzas.

Had a go with mine today. Using warma pizza pellets it was easy enough to get up to 400c, I think if I’d kept shovelling them in I could have got it to 500. Cooked pizzas in about 90s though with one turn in the middle. Works great.

Can you get wood pellets etc in any high street shops?

you can get ooni pellets in dobbies and lakeland.

most plumbers merchants, they're used for biofuel stoves and boilers. Supposedly may not be exactly food grade but plenty of folk using them

https://www.wolseley.co.uk/product/balcas-brites-wood-pellet-bag-10kg/

pics of pizza made in lidl ovens please?

Gosh I'd never have considered a plumbers merchant as a stockist!

Gosh I’d never have considered a plumbers merchant as a stockist!

The middle classes have to buy them somewhere!

What's the trick to lighting one of the Lidl ovens using wood pellets?

i use bbq lighter fluid and a kitchen blowtorch

soak the first pile of chips then the first shovel of pellets

Just had my first pizza from the gozney oven I bought last week for my bro's birthday, his first attempt at using it and i'm mightily impressed, a very good investment and it'll save me driving 35 miles to get a decent pizza.

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The base is lovely and crispy, this was using the gozney basic pizza dough recipe

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What’s the trick to lighting one of the Lidl ovens using wood pellets?

get the little waxed firelighters that look like a birds nest. relatively odour free compared to other forms and they create an air pocket that gets the pellets burning quickly

"Jonnyboi" is that pic from the Lidl one? Looks good. Did you manage to get the temp up to >400?

I agree the birds nest firelighters are the ones to get, so easy to light or a wee gas blowtorch if you have one . Timing of the pellets is the trick, too much in restricted airflow will smoke you out and not paying enough attention letting it go low will lose heat drastically

Do people pr3heat the pizza stone in the oven?

Question: does the Lidl one have a front door ? The Ooni wood burner ones have a metal front door, I wonder if this is causing the issue of the ovens not getting up to the full 450/500 degrees?

Question: does the Lidl one have a front door ? The Ooni wood burner ones have a metal front door, I wonder if this is causing the issue of the ovens not getting up to the full 450/500 degrees?

I have just ordered a door for my Cozze gas oven – they do help get the temperature up, but you should only use them to heat up, not whilst cooking apparently (I assume this is the same for all models but can;t be sure).

and time for a complete body-swerve of a topic change – I am cooking approx 15 pizzas on Saturday for our girls' birthday party – 30 guests, pairing up to make pizzas to be judged. Any tips for prepping all the dough, getting ingredients together etc? I have tried to argue them around to me just making pizzas to order, but they want to make them themselves as a party game!

Get all the dough balls made and proven/proved well before hand. Other than that I think the challenge is going to be keeping the pizza oven hot enough for 15 pizzas.

Oh set it up like a production line. How many pizza peels do you have. You'll need at least two, one to get the pizza out the oven and one to prep the next pizza.

I've tried doing pizzas for a good few folk but it gets stressful if they all want individual pizza, cook, cut and share them out. If you lose heat or get distracted "cremated 🍕" give yourself plenty of space to work and anyone who comes over to see how it's done give them a yellow card and tell them to fxxx off . Maybe a gas one would be easier to work than pellets

– I am cooking approx 15 pizzas on Saturday

Gas ooni here and it's not the oven that is the limiting factor on production but the space and peels to prep. You can't keep them coming quick enough!

How many pizza peels do you have.

I have two (a wooden one for launching and a metal one for lifting out). I think a second wooden one might be a good idea.

Maybe a gas one would be easier to work than pellets

Thankfully it is gas (and I have a back-up bottle of gas)

Other than that I think the challenge is going to be keeping the pizza oven hot enough for 15 pizzas.

I have just bought a door so I can put that on between pizzas to help it reheat more quickly.

Yes, the lidl one has a door.

Final question (honestly 🙂 ) How easy would it be to do a home conversion to gas at a later date? Thinking rig up a camping gas bottle and regulator and some copper tubing with small perforations and thread this in via the back burner unit/

If you are making that many Pizza's in a one sitting, consider cooking all the bases before hand. That then allows you to premake more pizzas and cook quicker, without having to worry too much about stone temp.

That what I usually do when I have to make 7+ pizzas

Has anyone found a cover that will fit the Lidl oven?  Mine will have to live outside.

My garden centre had an end of line one for a bigger bbq that I've just trimmed to fit. Anything waterproof will do in the short term.

Back with an update – I ended up making 20 pizzas one straight after the other – I got it up to temperature then just kept the heat up slightly on what I would normally do and watched them more carefully. Just the one slightly overcooked pizza and one that almost refused to launch (I blame my wife for putting too much tomato base on). Thankfully it was glorious weather and all the kids were too busy having water fights to bother with making pizza so we just got a production line going.

Whoever suggested getting more peels - thank you! That was certainly a lifesaver! We even got some nice compliments on how nice the pizzas were, which was nice!

John's Doh!...

(I apologise for the lack of a cooked pizza picture – I was too focussed on the cooking at that point)!