A traditional wood oven is made of bricks, clay and stone. They are very heavy and take a long time to build. Although they're great for cooking pizza, they're not practical or affordable for most people. I can see what all the fuss is about.
The Ooni is worth the experience it offers. I say experience because I think that making and cooking food can really be an experience. A traditional brick oven and commercial variants, such as the convection, conveyor and platform, are definitely worth the effort. Portable pizza ovens are worthwhile for home chefs.
However, countertop pizza ovens and kits for barbecues, grills or stoves are a gray area. Since it doesn't need its own heat source, the Camp Chef Artisan Outdoor pizza oven is a great way to get an outdoor pizza oven at a low price. You can watch a video on Facebook Live of some of the action, if you're interested in seeing two guys who know how to make pizza with pizza. Even on the best grill, none of these units work as well as the best standalone pizza ovens, and none of them produce pizza much better than what can be prepared in an indoor oven, but there's no denying the appeal of cooking outside, not to mention the fact that you don't have to heat your house with an oven in summer.
Raw pizzas come off the pizza easily, while perforations ensure that excess flour comes off the pizza instead of burning in the bottom of the oven. It has a pizza stone inside that gives you that delicious and crunchy dough of a traditional wood-fired pizza oven. In fact, I have a raw wood burning pizza oven and a pellet smoker (Traeger). I ate a pizza in an Ooni oven.
The Camp Chef Artisan Outdoor pizza oven is a portable pizza oven designed for use with a 16-inch Camp Chef cooking system. The oven door is wide, but not very tall, so getting the pizzas in and out can be a bit complicated if you don't have much experience handling a pizza shell. Pizza ovens are not only worthwhile, but they are needed to make Neapolitan pizza and its American cousin, the New York one. The Foodparty BakeBros outdoor pizza oven is a 12-inch portable pizza oven that comes with extras for maximum value.
If you have a portable outdoor pizza oven, you should store it indoors when you're not using it. The 16 Koda offers you enough space to move the pizza and also a good distance between the pizza and the flame itself in case it starts to cook too quickly. Many outdoor pizza ovens have external temperature meters that show the internal temperature of the pizza oven. Indoor ovens simply aren't able to reach the temperatures needed to make a really good pizza at home, while the best outdoor pizza ovens are.
You might think that being that guy who always has pizza to give away would make you very popular with neighbors, but I've had people turn down free pizza after offering it to them too many times.
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