Pizza Geek Tries Portable Pizza Oven For The first Time (unexpected ending)
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A portable pizza oven is a compact and often lightweight cooking appliance designed specifically for baking pizzas. These ovens are designed to be easily moved and used in various locations, such as your backyard, patio, camping site, or even indoors. They come in various styles and fuel sources, but the most common types of portable pizza ovens include:
1. Wood-Fired Pizza Ovens: These ovens use wood as the primary heat source, and they are known for imparting a smoky flavor to the pizza. They can be a bit larger and heavier than other portable options due to the wood-burning chamber.
2. Propane or Gas Pizza Ovens: These pizza ovens are powered by propane or natural gas. They are often easier to control in terms of temperature and are more convenient to use, as you don't need to worry about wood or charcoal.
3. Electric Pizza Ovens: Electric pizza ovens are typically the most compact and lightweight options. They are easy to plug in and use, making them suitable for indoor and outdoor settings.
4. Pellet Pizza Ovens: These ovens use wood pellets as their heat source, combining the convenience of propane with the flavor of wood-fired cooking.
Portable pizza ovens are designed to reach high temperatures quickly, typically over 700°F (370°C) or even higher, which is essential for cooking pizzas quickly and achieving that crispy, charred crust and gooey cheese. Many models feature built-in thermometers, pizza stones, and other features to help you create authentic, delicious pizzas.
These ovens have gained popularity due to their versatility, allowing pizza enthusiasts to enjoy homemade, restaurant-quality pizza in various settings. They come in a range of price points, so you can find one that suits your budget and pizza-making needs.
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Alex, your blur plugin seems to not be cooperating, it shows some of the people's faces, just thought you might want to know! Awesome pizzas, must be great to be your cameraman! ;D
@Alex at 11:37, 11:52 & 11:54 the blur went of the person showing their faces.
Great video, can't wait for more Pizza creations (or other things to cook in a pizza oven?)
I think that was on purpose. HAHA
@@gildardo he has an automatic filter that "detects" faces, not working properly tho
@@RaidMonkeys Oh, I don't do video editing myself. It looked intentional since the video is public.
@@gildardo The tracker probably couldn't catch up with the motion in the image, very common in video editing programs. Most of the time you need to fix it by hand
@@LeeAnnGlenn That make sence, thanks for explaining it.
As someone that owns an Ooni myself, I've learned through trial and error that you need to lower the flame once you slide your pie in. Even if the stone is up to temp, the bottom won't cook enough by the time the top burns. Once you do that you'll get an amazing neapolitan!
💯 this. I've got a Koda 16 and find I get best results if I preheat on high between pizzas then turn it right down as soon as I put it in. Position matters in the Koda too, if you've got a pizza with a bit more toppings positioning it further from the burner (front right in the Koda 16) will give the base more time to set before you have to turn it
Literally says to do this n the owners manual of the koda
I imagine the Koda has a stronger flame than the Fyra, for the Fyra it works great heating the stone to 430C and then putting the pizza in, no change to the flame.
Without trial and error he has almost no content. It's all for show folks...
@@thecrowfliescrooked Trial and error is how people use things for the first time. I don't understand your point.
Hey Alex, I am thrilled that you love the oven! I am an engineer at Ooni and I take great pride in watching people bond over our products and more importantly pizza! That is what our company revolves around and it’s amazing you got to show that in the video!
To improve your cook going forward make sure you have the door and chimney on. The door helps with the heat up, the chimney (make sure the baffle in it is open too!) helps draw the flame through the oven. I love to wait a little longer then after I launch the pizza turn the flame down and turn the pizza a few times then turn it back to full for a final bake for 15-20 seconds! All in all do experiment and find what works best for you, that’s the fun part! 😁
I also keep the door closed while cooking the pizza as it tends to get too cold otherwise
Is it possible to add wood/wood chips to the oven to get a smokey effect?
Can I just say your customer service is the best I have experienced as well. I picked up a 12 from a garden centre, ex display and it was missing a bit and you guys sent it out for the price of postage, good stuff.
@@Scubadooper there’s a wood version as well
@@m1r4c thanks.
You prompted me to search. There's a multi fuel option as well, which I think is the one I want... Now to save up my pennies!
Alex: I don't want to make a ruckus in my new neighborhood
Also Alex: throws an impromptu pizza party 🥳❤
I think you needed to let the stone heat up more. I use an IR thermometer to check the stone before putting in a pizza.
Yes, and lower the flame little bit, in that way the bottom and the top cooking speed will be equal ;)
@@gabor.kovacsyes I was going to comment the same, blast it until the stone is hot enough then lower the flame after you launch the pie
also there is an un-even cooking bc the door looks to be left open also
Agreed
@@RedRisotto Great idea, do you know where I can find said small smoker box or tube? Any images, links or product names you can let me know of? Smoke flavor is where I struggle to mimic true neapolitan style pizza.
I LOVE that this is how you got to meet your neighbors. How could they not love you? We all do.
Unexpectedly heartwarming
IMO, Pizza is the ultimate shareable food that everyone seems to enjoy.
I would forgive any grievances I could ever have if my neighbor provided free neapolitan pizza semi regularly
It must be rough being one of Alex's neighbors. The daily struggle of if you should bring lunch or is Alex going to make something a few times for a video and feed everyone to not waste food.
oh 100% and for more factors than just taste. its highly customizeble, so lets say you have vegan friends or friends thar have Coeliac disease you can just make a vegan pizza or a gluten free pizza. its a shareable food that anyone can enjoy.@@tiacho2893
I love unexpected edings.
Don't we all
11:36 the face being blurred can be easily seen
@Alex between 11:53 and 11:57 the automatic blur is blurring the lines of what it should be blurring and also 11:36 and 11:38
Small hints from a humble amateur : maybe let the stone preheat a bit more, then lower the flame while cooking the pizza. And before going in, you should just pop the big air bubbles to avoid the pie starting to burn 🙂
Very good suggestion, plus I would try to buy a special pizza stone the saputo kind.
As a long term Ooni pizza oven owner I can confirm the original message in this thread
+1
I wonder if a (preheated) pizza steel would bring more concentrated heat to the underside?
@@BiggMo it's not necessary with the Ooni ovens, you just have to let the stone preheat properly (+/15min for the Ooni Koda 16 in general).
At 11:55-12:00 there are a few times the face blur isn’t actually on people’s faces
Alex mate! *Ending😅😅😅😅😅
Salut Alex ! Here's an idea for you:
I've been experiencing putting a thin layer of olive oil on the crust around the pizza using a small brush before putting it in the oven. Although it is not the proper traditional way, I think it brings something more to the crust : as crunchy, but less carbonated, and more flavorful thanks to the taste of the oil.
Maybe something you might want to try out someday 😉
Thank you for your great videos!
LOVE your pizza series Alex! Learned so much! You're the Best 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Some tips from an Italian home pizza maker who has built his own portable oven (electric with rotatory stone):
1)Wait at least 45 minutes to heat up well the stone
2)To make a fluffier pizza increase the hydration of the dough at minimum of 70%
3)Under 400° the air bubbles doesn't expands (i use 420° and 1:30 minutes)
4)If you want step up in pizza game try to make a "pizza contemporanea" (contemporary pizza) by doing the "biga" which is a preferment of the dough with only 45% of hydration and that will increase the the flavor
5)If you use flour type 0 (instead of type 00) the pizza will be more flavorful (eg. Caputo nuvola) and use a flour of 270W/300W, don't go to high or the pizza will be like bread (for my contemporary pizza i make the biga with a mix of type 0, type 1 and regrinded semola and hydration of 75%) tip. Use icy water
6)Flatten the pizza dough on regrinded semola and not flour so it doesn't absorb much humidity and doesn't stick to the pizza peel. Also be careful to push the air of the pizza ball from the center outwards and don't flatten the crust
7)Use a pizza peel with holes, so the excess regrinded semola stuck in the bottom of the dough will fall and doesn't burn
8)I strongly recommend to replace the refractory stone with a "biscotto" fiesoli and you can leave the pizza in the oven for as long as you want, and the under side will always be perfectly cooked (search on google "fiesoli arte biscotto")
Great comment
bro can you make a video about this please, I'd like to see!
this is interesting
Amazing video as always alex! LOVED the ending! Food always has a way to bring people together, making us share great experiences and generally be friendlier. Very happy to see that you're beign welcomed! You deserve all the love❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊
Great video Alex!! I wish i could as passioned as you on the things you do. Keep up the good work
Thanks for sharing Alex! I will surely get one in the near future... can't wait for your next video!!
Have bought an Ooni Koda a few years ago and it's been so awesome. I've invited lots of people to my place to make pizza and all of them have been in awe of how awesome that pizza is.
I'm so glad you have a proper pizza oven now and don't have to worry about burning down your studio with your "absolutely voided the warranty" domestic oven!
there is no bigger pleasure for the chef as to share his food with other and see they enjoy it! awesome thing!!!
What a beautiful ending, and you're right. Food makes things so much easier, even if it's just for a moment. It can connect people and show people who you are or who you can be in some way.
I really hope that the blue wall is going to serve as a replacement for the blue fridge. Cooking equations will look so cool on there.
New space looks nice. I am curious to see more.
Also, I hope that the courtyard is large enough for a solar pizza oven, to compare
I got my Ooni 2.5 years ago after watching your first pizza series. Been using it every weekend since! Thanks for sharing your love/knowledge of cooking. Have fun with your new oven. Can't wait to see what you do with it.
Congrats on the 2M! Great to see you sharing the joy with the new neighbours..
I had a similar epiphany last year. I got the Ooni Fyra wood pellet oven, and it was life changing! Instantly went from pretty average pizza, to pizza that rivals most restaurants around here (there are still a few that blow mine out of the water 😅). Just like pancakes, the first one is usually under or over cooked.
Looks great! I would highly recommend a small round peel for turning.
The thermometer reads the ambient temperature inside the oven not the stone's temperature. It takes my Roccbox around 40-60 minutes to get the stone up to temp. You can use an IR thermometer to check the stone before launching a pizza.
YEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!! been waiting for you to get one of these. I got a karu 12 during the pandemic after many failed attempts at cobbling together a frankenoven from junk i had lying around and random building materials.
Alex, I think you’re wife must be thrilled that you’ve found something that will keep your from hacking the family oven. 😂 Glad to see that you have lovely neighbors at your new studio and are having fun!
A huge thing that most people miss is using either poolish or biga in their dough recipes, and the importance of keeping the top part of the dough on top always so it cooks correctly. If you wonder why some of your pies come out doughy and others almost perfect, that might be why! 🍕
As I’ve been watching your videos for the past few years, I just realised why I love your channel. Not only is it informative but also therapeutic 😍
You are one of the few creator/cook on CZcams that makes me excited about cooking. Thank you Alex.
As a passionate pizza amateur cook and having used multiple portable pizza ovens from multiple brands including Ooni, my gas-based oven preference goes to Gozney's Roccbox because of it's thicker stone and better insulation. It retains heat better when making multiple pizza's in a row compared to the Ooni.
Getting yourself a pizza turning peel to rotate the pizza's during cooking is super handy for all these ovens 😉
You could also start try cooking with cast iron skillets in these ovens for new-york style pizza's or other brilliant non-pizza oven dishes
Where there's pizza, there's a party! 👍😋 That's fantastic that some of the neighbors came out to say "hello" and see what was going on. Bringing people together one slice at a time, nice job Alex.
Amazing video as always. Thanks!
In the end you said a big truth, everyone loves pizza and can be a connection with the people, they appreciate your talent and taste something great done by a friend already! Big hug from Italy
Ive got a Gozney pizza oven and it cooks some amazing pizzas. I've also used it for steaks. A great item to have for cooking.
I also have the Ooni oven and i noticed that you have to preheat it much longer because of the special Cordierit-Stone. I usually preheat it for 30-40 minutes. So the bottom doesnt come out pale. Greetings from Graz/Austria. 😉 Ps: we also bought a woodfire oven from Aldi for 699€ and it is stainless steel so when it‘s a little bit colder outside it doesnt hold the temp so well but with a bigger oven and woodfired it‘s just 5 levels up. 😉
Yeah I'm not sure where "10 minutes" came from. I think the manual says 30 minutes.
If you wanna get next level results, consider either PizzaParty or Gozney. Pizza party has been around for 20 years and is an Italian company. Their Ardore and Emozione gas ovens our second to none in terms of what you get for the price you pay. Same goes for their wood fire ovens. Meanwhile, the Gozney options are just top quality. As someone who’s owned two different Ooni ovens, I can tell you that quality is severely lacking for Ooni. Once you’ve owned a Gozney oven, either the Roccbox or the Dome, or a PizzaParty you’ll understand.
@@ElGrecoDaGeek yes, there are also the „Alfa“ Pizza oven from Italy - also great. But we first wanted to try a cheap one to see if we can handle the woodfire and if we see a difference. Now we NOW that there is a BIG difference between gas, charcoal and woodfire - so we stick to the woodfire oven. We want to get a real one with bricks but about 5000€ is a bit too expensive - now. 😉
I totally agree! I have been using my Ooni Koda for two years now and with the help of your videos to perfect the dough I constantly make really good pizzas.
Loved the eding
I feel like you need to test Colin Furze's pizza oven, a truly portable pizza oven.
Great video as always.
11:54 great job on the face blur
Love your Sailor, I have 1 too and I'm very happy about it! Nice video as always!
I've got myself an ooni pizza oven and they're pretty darn fun to use! Same model too, the Karu 16 with gas.
Unexpected EDING
Thanks for another upload Alex :)
This was the best damn episode ever. Outstanding in every way. The energy of your community and the potential for perfecting techniques and methodologies. Bravo 👏🏼
Here's the technique I've had the most success with if you want similar results without a pizza oven:
-use a high hydration dough (80%, do the whole stretch and folds to handle it correctly, it takes proper technique to handle it, but this will prevent the dough from solidifying too quickly when cooking)
-use a flat cast iron (pan/plate, etc. so it can retain heat when you transfer it to the oven later)
-get it ripping hot on a stove (5-10 min or so, this allows for a high enough temperature in the base, and to shock the pizza with enough heat as it rises into the dough from below)
-preheat your oven's grill/broiler for 10-15 min (again, more heat = better, and this gets you up to 300c unlike the oven)
-when you form your pizza and put it on the plate, it will take about 60 seconds to assemble - but this is good as it means the dough has a little time to heat from beneath and rise upwards around the crusts without solidifying straight away
-when the base is browned, put it under the grill/broiler
-once browned, take it out, and enjoy the chewey and floofy goodness
11:35 Face blurring mistake...
11:55 Again, sorry.
Welcome to the ooni family Alex! I love using my ooni and sharing it with the family!
This was probably one of my favorite videos from you😁
This is a perfect video, as a pizza enthusiast myself this video made every point necessary. The feeling of having friends over for a pizza party where everyone gets to make their pie and have fun is a top tier memories in my heart
wonderful community you stumbled upon, i'm sure they're loving your presence!
I love that your baking attracted your neighbours and you got to meet them all like this! And share your passion :)
I’m really glad you now have a beautiful outdoor space to cook and dine.
Just found your channel today while searching mother sauces. I’m hooked. Thanks for the content and keep it going .
Our oven has brought us closer to our neighbours too, great ice breaker. Looking forward to seeing where you take this. Thanks Alex!
Alex, great video, thanks for sharing. I'm sure with some more practice and with the very helpful comments posted by other viewers you will perfect this!
i saw the true joy in your eyes after the first bite of pizza and as someone who loves food seeing that brought such joy to myself
You're smooth dude. Got me hungry too. Great work and glad your dreams are coming true
Food is art, food is flavor, food is entertainment, food is nutrition, food is energy...but most importantly food easily is the center of community!
I'm on my second ooni, and enjoyed all your pizza series videos. Really looking forward to seeing where your engineering brain takes this.
Seeing the few clips of you working with the dough, got me excited to get back to baking bread again.
Love that unexpected ending! 😊
I watched your pizza episodes many times, and now I have a pop-up pizzeria.
Thank you Alex!!!
Pizza party is such a good way to practice pizzaiolo skills
- ingredient cost is not that high.
- 1 pizza can be shared/feed an adult easily
- By continuously baking pizza, you will understand how your oven perform.
- many people love pizza😁
When making the dough, you need to pay attention to the flour, the W strength is important to make the perfect Neapolitan pizza with leopard
look for my best flour what I use in my portable pizza oven EFFEUNO p134H 509
-PETRA 5037
- CAPUTO PIZZERIA
- 5 stagioni pizza napoletana
CAKE PARAMETERS
- number of balls: 6
- ball weight: 280 g
- hydration: 60%
NEEDED INGREDIENTS
- flour: 1031 g
- cold water with ice: 618 g
- salt: 31 g
- fresh yeast: 0.77g
RISING TIMES
- total time at ambient temperature(20*C-26*C): 8 hours
- total time in the fridge: 48 hours
Pizza souce is so simple
Just san Marzano pomodore with salt nothing more!
!!!!!
loooks amazing and simple
im love it
amazing recipe
nice
Thats the best reason ever to get a pizza oven, you're feeding your neighbours and letting everyone get to know you. The right reason to cook food - much love.
Nice job Alex! Loved the video. I've always wanted to try one of these, it is as you said a bit melancholy that you can do many things to achieve perfection but nothing will beat simply buying the right equipment. I used to make pizza for the staff in the kitchen i worked in, using a pizza stone placed on a salamander to achieve that high heat, but still never could achieve that leopard spotting like that! One day I will be able to justify spending that amount on pizza but maybe not now while im a student still!! 😆Amazing video as always. ♥
I love how from your neighbor's perspective, you came in and threw a pizza party. Best neighbor ever.
My brother has one and uses it every sunday to make pizza for his family. With a 5 and 3 year old, they all have their particular tastes but it's fun whenever I'm visiting to see the whole group celebrate a good home made pizza all for themself!
I notice you use Franco Pepe's method of stretching the dough--chapeau! Very excited for your new studio and next series!
Bought my Ooni 16 last year. Best money I ever spent. Also the turning peel is a must-have!
Hey Alex
love all the pizza video's
If you want a indoors Pizza oven you should try and look into the EFFEUNO P134H 509 pizzaovn with a BISCOTTO pizzaston
This one made me feel warm and fuzzy❤
Congrats on your new pizza oven! I am so jealous. Wednesdays are pizza night at my house, though all we have is a regular oven that only goes up to 500 degrees F. You've given me something to aspire to.
Sharing food work people, is one of the joy of life. It is like sharing love ❤
got mine this summer and absolutly love it. Need to make much more pizza to get on a higher lvl but it is already very good and so much fun
Love the community outcome of this video
Definitively try making naan with your new oven! Garlic naan with some dal or channa masala with bread made with your setup is going to be tasty.
Best eding of all time
Great video and so happy to see this Alex! I have an Ooni as well and a few lessons I've learned:
You need a turning peel and IR thermometer.
Oven is ready when the center of the stone is just over 400. I load at 430 at the center which seems to work for my local humidity and temps.
You have to turn the burner down to low right before loading. Let the stone have time to do the cooking without scorching the top. Use the turning peel to rotate the pizza while cooking. It's much more precise and faster than using a loading peel.
I have been using Stäedtler's cold ferment pizza dough recipe for Neopolitan pie with excellent results. Upping the water content and learning how to work with sticky dough has been a rewarding challenge. Enjoy your Ooni!!
Apron foreshadowing there 😜 Well done Alex. Tes videos sont qualitatives, en tout point. Merci de nous faire rêver. Keep going ❤
That’s awesome! An impromptu pizza party with your new neighbors! I noticed you started whispering then at the end you were speaking normally. Glad you have cool people around you.
Now I need one portable oven. Thank you Alex.
There is NO WAY you just bought an Ooni Oven just 2 weeks after I got my own. The timing couldn't be better. I'm glad to see you're just as pleased as I am with the oven.
I am seeing this oven for a time ..I was wating for a serious report like Alex did of this. Thank you
(unexpected eding) Nice one alex love it 🤣😂❤❤
Bringing everyone together with a pizza party. Amazing.
When you let the oven preheat for a bit longer (or do pizza #2) you get a bit more heat from the stone tiles in the bottom of the oven. I have a wood-fired version of this oven and it's so awesome. It takes a little practise to be able to get the pizza into and out of the oven, without crashing it, but you probably have lots of experience from that already with all the other versions of pizza baking you have done in real pizza ovens etc.
I really wasn't expecting that eding
I was thinking, that would be a great way to get to know the neighbors, I am surprised none have showed up.. then watched the end of the video, how amazing it would be to live near Alex
Alex, I found your channel a few years ago and devoured all of your content you had produced back then. Now I find myself doing a little bit of catching up. I know you have a new studio and it is lovely. My only wish is that you will post a video about how you constructed it like you did with your latest studio.
You have taught me a lot about cooking and I love your passion in your love of doing do. Merci bo coup mon ami.
i love the neighbor interaction as much as i love the pizza he made, good job alex
Sensational video.
I borrowed one of those Ooni ovens from a grood friend of mine for a weekend. I did not change anything concerning my dough recipe. That was exactly the same as always. And normally I do the "first in a cast iron pan on the hub, then under the grill in the oven"-method, which works fine. But its just not the same.
With this oven and real woodfire the difference was astonishing. And those things are absolutely fiercely hot. You basically have to count maybe to like 20 in your head and then need to turn the pizza or it will immediately burn.
But some things that I learned from this experiment (which was delicious):
1) The closer you are to the burner the faster the TOP of the pizza cooks.
2) To cook the bottom first and really nicely you should put the pizza closer to the entrance of the oven first, let it bake a little bit and then move it closer to the burner
3) The best result was using 2 first, and then using the Pizza peel to lift the pizza up and nearly into the flames for some seconds to get the top really bubbling and cripsy.
This gave the best overall result.
And dont instantly put in the next pizza. If you have a laser thermometer you should check the temperature of the stone. if its below 400°C you should wait a bit, until it comes up to temperature.
As alwys love your videos and was excited, since I got a chance to test the same thing as you :D
I must say, since you made this video. I can no longer have doubt and shall buy one myself now haha.
Genius!
I'm so glad your new neighbors came out and made a party of it!