![]() ![]() ![]() First, it couldn’t be easier to set up and use: Take it out of the box, unfold the legs, and you're ready to go. The Koda 12 is one of the brand's less-expensive models, but after thorough testing both in the Lab and at home, we deemed it our best overall choice for a variety of reasons. Ooni is a major name in pizza ovens so it's no surprise the brand sits at the top of our list. Ooni Koda’s Gas-Powered Outdoor Pizza Oven Is Pizza Tech at Its Best Because we know home chefs use pizza ovens in a variety of ways-and to get even more hands-on observations-we also sent several models to our experienced at-home testers for further review. Each pizza oven was rated on assembly, heat control, performance, and portability. We also measured preheat time and maximum temperatures. We made dozens of pizzas in a variety of styles, evaluating for consistency in results. After evaluating the market, we chose 21 models to test side by side in our Lab. Some are small and portable, and some will make quite a statement in your backyard. There's a wide range of pizza ovens available on the market, from brick, gas, or wood-fired outdoor ovens to indoor countertop models. It can be used to achieve perfectly seared steaks, roasted fish with extra-crispy skins, flavorful veggies, and more. Plus, a pizza oven is often far more versatile than the name implies. This is where a pizza oven comes in handy.Ī good pizza oven is able to reach high temperatures without the long preheating times and extensive cleanup that standard kitchen ovens require. I think the idea is that there are two basic Italian brick oven designs: pizza ovens and bread ovens, and you need to think about how you want to use your oven.Homemade pizza is often fun to make and delicious to eat, but a kitchen oven can't quite recreate restaurant pizza that's made in pizza ovens reaching 800-plus degrees. I also think it is interesting that there is also a lot of wood fired oven bread in Italy (Pane Cotta a Legna), which is baked in large commercial brick bread ovens - which are rectangular, barrel vault ovens. There are about a million pizza ovens in Italy, and they are all round. I make more bread than we could ever eat, and I give lots away. ![]() The downside is that a brick pizza oven kit can only bake around 20-30 loaves of bread from a single firing, not 75. There are also little things, like clean up. The rectangular oven has a barrel vault, which gives you hot and cool spots, depending on where the fire it. That is how the high volume pizzerias cook all those pizzas. You can cook pizza everywhere (or roasts and veggies) in the oven, and it cooks evenly. The round, spherical dome does a better job of bouncing heat evenly on the cooking floor. For all the effort you are going to be putting into installing a wood fired oven, a 32″ x 36″ rectangular oven is a one-pizza oven - which is a shame.Ĥ. A 35″ round gives you much more usable space than a 32″ x 36″. If you put the fire in the back, the heat and flame does not reflect to the front of the brick pizza oven kit. If you put it on one side, you have very little room for food on the other side, and you cannot access the back. With a 32″ x 36″ rectangular pizza oven, there isn’t a good place for the fire. With a round pizza oven, you have room for your fire on one side, and food/pizza on the other side and in the back. The Round Oven is designed for fire-in-the-oven cooking and pizza. That continues to happen until the entire mass is heated, which can take a very, very long time.ģ. That means that heat is continually moving away from the inside of your brick pizza oven kit, where you want it for cooking, toward the outer edge of the thermal mass. The problem with too much thermal mass is that the heat from your fire has to heat the entire mass. The heavier oven has real trouble reaching and holding those high temperatures. The round pizza oven can reach and hold that heat, cooking pizza for long periods of time. Pizza should cook at around 700☏, or even higher. The Round Oven can reach high Pizza Heat. Round pizza oven owners use their ovens a couple of times a week, and sadly, we know barrel vault oven owners who never fire their ovens.Ģ. For many owners, heat up time is the difference between using my oven during the work week, or not at all. Plus, the barrel vault oven burns more wood (which isn’t good for the environment or your pocketbook). Modern refractory ovens are designed with speed in mind and heat up in about 40 minutes (not much longer than Kingsford). The barrel vault has a great deal of outward thrust, and needs a lot of concrete for buttressing. The round dome is self-standing (ala the Duomo in Florence), so it does not need a lot of concrete clapping to hold it together. The Round Pizza Oven design heats up much faster than the barrel vault oven - less than an hour, compared with 2-3 hours or more for the heavier oven. ![]()
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