One more time with feeling: which pizza oven?

looks like theres far more choice than i thought there was, and at cheaper prices too.

well thats my research sorted for the next few days as i follow up on some of these.

thanks

well a week or so of research, and plenty of pizza evenings with friends and family and im now torn in a different way.  my research for a dedicated pizza oven led me to settle for the gozney roccbox.  but…… after talking to people on pizza forums, ive now perfected making them in the home oven, just needs a bit more heat on the base.  or, alternatively i could use a ‘screen’ for the base so i can cook the toppings longer/better in the firepod but not burn the base.  so i have a few options……

buy a pizza steel for more stored base heat and keep using home oven.  cons are it needs a good hour pre-heating to heat the stone effectively, wife says shes already noticed the increase in electricity used for the oven to be on full pelt for nearly 2 hrs at a time.

buy a pizza screen for the firepod i have now, so i can keep the pizza in the firepod for longer to cook the tops adequately and not burn the base.

buy a roccbox.  probably perfect solution (and its a nice shiny new thing) 😀 but, is it worth chucking £400 on something thatll give marginally better pizzas, when we’re all pretty happy with how theyre coming out now.

this is one deep rabbithole 😀

Buy secondhand, at worse case you’ll lose a few £ if you sell it on

£250 on eBay

£250 for a second-hand oven? Get out of here. I paid half that for a new one .

We gave up on the oven when madame discovered frying pan pizzas

Unbelievable

Jamie Oliver’s No-Oven Pizza

Just given our ooni its annual outing having decided last summer it was a faff. Never did buy a thermometer so just left it on for 15 minutes went for it. Turning every 15 seconds, and getting the wife to make the dough, turned out superbly. Back in love with it.

anyone use an infrared thermometer to check stone/steel temperature?  (see i told you i was disappearing down the rabbithole didnt i)

any recommendations?

Yes, we have an Ooni one that came with our s/h pellet Ooni. It appears to work just fine!

After reading on here and doing loads of research we changed our minds and bought a cheap pizza stone from Lidl to try on the griddle.

Used it at the weekend and the results were impressive

^ open invite to @Tracey + family to pop round to mine and show me how you did those, they look rather good to me.

Well done

Just need to find a dry day!

I just use my oven to make pizza and it’s more than good enough to make a dedicated pizza oven a waste of time. I don’t have a pizza stone, I use a Silverwood baking tray made for an Aga. They’re extra thick aluminium so they heat up quickly and give a good crisp base

^ open invite to @Tracey + family to pop round to mine and show me how you did those, they look rather good to me.

once shes been round mine first to show me, ill send her to yours…..

Just did the fillings with what we had in. Folded one over to try a calzone. Pre heated on full. Then 10 mins for pizza.

It’s quite versatile with other foods

^ stop it.

Please