Pizza Oven Thread

[SpeckledJim]

Yidwann said:

I'd argue Nduja is better than Cocaine!

I'd argue it'd have to be to sell any!

[Tony Angelino]

13aines said:

Tony Angelino said:

I’ve been offered a few quid to sell my pizza oven, it’s a metal one and a good few years old. I’ve had some great service from it but given what I paid for it and what somebody has offered me, I’m considering selling it and buying one of the smaller portable ones.

Question. Is, rocobox or ooni, any opinions please?

I did exactly that and sold one of these for £100 recently, which we bought for maybe £30 second hand two years ago:



Personally I will go with an Ooni Koda when stocks return. Gas is fast and simple, and the price is appealing vs the Roccbox.

thanks, my concern was that gas might not burn at a high enough temperature?

[ecsrobin]

Tony Angelino said:

thanks, my concern was that gas might not burn at a high enough temperature?

My stone in my ooni gets to about 500deg on gas.

[CustardOnChips]

Tony Angelino said:

13aines said:

Tony Angelino said:

I’ve been offered a few quid to sell my pizza oven, it’s a metal one and a good few years old. I’ve had some great service from it but given what I paid for it and what somebody has offered me, I’m considering selling it and buying one of the smaller portable ones.

Question. Is, rocobox or ooni, any opinions please?

I did exactly that and sold one of these for £100 recently, which we bought for maybe £30 second hand two years ago:



Personally I will go with an Ooni Koda when stocks return. Gas is fast and simple, and the price is appealing vs the Roccbox.

thanks, my concern was that gas might not burn at a high enough temperature?

Either of those options will be fine. You will have no issues whatsoever with the temperature using gas.

If I'm doing longer cooking sessions I have to turn the gas down on my Roccbox to prevent it from getting too hot.

Which is something woth considering. The Roccbox will be able to churn out Pizzas for hours with the base maintaining a consistent temperature. I'm not sure the Ooni can. Someone with experience may want to comment.

[ecsrobin]

CustardOnChips said:

Either of those options will be fine. You will have no issues whatsoever with the temperature using gas.

If I'm doing longer cooking sessions I have to turn the gas down on my Roccbox to prevent it from getting too hot.

Which is something woth considering. The Roccbox will be able to churn out Pizzas for hours with the base maintaining a consistent temperature. I'm not sure the Ooni can. Someone with experience may want to comment.

The most I’ve done is 7 in my ooni back to back with no issues and imagine it will keep on going as it’s gas?

[SpeckledJim]

I can confirm my gas Ooni, under my diligent control, is perfectly capable of churning out carbon frisbees all afternoon.

Awesome kit. Terrible operator.

[CustardOnChips]

SpeckledJim said:

I can confirm my gas Ooni, under my diligent control, is perfectly capable of churning out carbon frisbees all afternoon.

Awesome kit. Terrible operator.

[giblet]

The sodding saga continues

Found a guy on gumtree, said his 2 tonne machine should do the job



Wrong, couldn’t lift it anywhere near high enough. So now I have a lawn that is worse and the oven still isn’t where it needs to be

Ffs

[number2]

If you haven't got access to a mini-digger thing that can deal with it, looks like taking the blocks away to allow access underneath the oven will be the easiest option. Unless the side walls are using those blocks for support. Start again I'd say, it's only a few blocks .

[SpeckledJim]

giblet said:

The sodding saga continues

Found a guy on gumtree, said his 2 tonne machine should do the job



Wrong, couldn’t lift it anywhere near high enough. So now I have a lawn that is worse and the oven still isn’t where it needs to be

Ffs

1. Large pile of timber / hardcore / soil / sand / whatever built around your finished final plinth.

2. Drive or roll it up there Egyptian style.

3. Remove timber / hardcore / soil / sand / whatever


Lots (and lots) of mauling, but it'll work.


ETA

OR

With sleepers or breeze blocks build a platform for the bobcat to the required height, adjacent to the plinth, then have the bobcat reach down to collect the oven.

Edited by SpeckledJim on Friday 21st August 14:09

[arn22110]

I lifted mine from my car trailer with my 5 ton Takeuchi (picture somewhere on this thread). If you are going across grass put boards down

[Burwood]

giblet said:

The sodding saga continues

Found a guy on gumtree, said his 2 tonne machine should do the job



Wrong, couldn’t lift it anywhere near high enough. So now I have a lawn that is worse and the oven still isn’t where it needs to be

Ffs

Did he still want paying

[giblet]

number2 said:

If you haven't got access to a mini-digger thing that can deal with it, looks like taking the blocks away to allow access underneath the oven will be the easiest option. Unless the side walls are using those blocks for support. Start again I'd say, it's only a few blocks .

Sledgehammer will be coming out at some point over the next few days. Makes logical sense to change the plinth from a square to a |_| shape instead. Use the bottom as the wood store, use blocks that I take out to block up the planned wood store area on the right

Plus this way an engine hoist would get the sodding job done first time as the legs wouldn’t have any issues fitting in a |_| shaped plinth. The swuare plinth bit was filled with broken blocks and rubble so will have to shift that into the section on the right.

Trust me to f*ck about trying the stupid options instead of using some common sense.

Burwood said:

Did he still want paying

Thankfully not, loaded the digger up and drove off.

[SpeckledJim]

giblet said:

number2 said:

If you haven't got access to a mini-digger thing that can deal with it, looks like taking the blocks away to allow access underneath the oven will be the easiest option. Unless the side walls are using those blocks for support. Start again I'd say, it's only a few blocks .

Sledgehammer will be coming out at some point over the next few days. Makes logical sense to change the plinth from a square to a |_| shape instead. Use the bottom as the wood store, use blocks that I take out to block up the planned wood store area on the right

Plus this way an engine hoist would get the sodding job done first time as the legs wouldn’t have any issues fitting in a |_| shaped plinth. The swuare plinth bit was filled with broken blocks and rubble so will have to shift that into the section on the right.

Trust me to f*ck about trying the stupid options instead of using some common sense.

This is the sort of half-arsed bodgery that people aren't supposed to find until after you're dead! It's been a couple of weeks!



Throw the rubble away instead and stick a beer basin in the bit on the right.

[Hanglow]

Impressive effort on that oven tbf.


Did 6 pizzas today, one fked up so had to retop one of the marinaras I was going to freeze.

A Di Maria Nduja is very good btw.

other toppings were home grown aci sivri peppers, basil, oregano, garlic, olives, peppers, scamorza, mozz, chanterell duxelle,




This was the retopped one, so is rather well done. I liked it a lot tbf



marinara


failure

[Greshamst]

The failure pizza looks like a weird pizza toad

What’s the thought process behind freezing the marinara? Just making use of having the oven on, but not enough people to eat them all? What’s the preferred method for reheating?

Edited by Greshamst on Monday 24th August 09:21

[twinturboz]

Just to make a change, fired up an old Kenyan style Jiko oven I had lying around. Doesn’t quite compare to the proper pizza ovens but not half bad!

[hyphen]

The cheek of the Kenyans. Telling us they are starving on Comic Relief when actually they are making pizzas in fancy ovens!

[Hanglow]

Greshamst said:

The failure pizza looks like a weird pizza road

What’s the thought process behind freezing the marinara? Just making use of having the oven on, but not enough people to eat them all? What’s the preferred method for reheating?

I've freezed topped pizzas before but they don't reheat as well as frozen marinaras that have been freshly topped with extra cheese and other toppings

And yes, if I go through the faff of having to heat the oven it is worth the time to make a few extra pizzas to eat later

For reheating just the oven @180c or so for ten minutes.

Edited by Hanglow on Monday 24th August 10:46

[Greshamst]

I know it wasn’t my fair hands, or pizza oven that made this, but seen as this is a thread for pizza enthusiasts...
First time back at Crustbros since lockdown, and it was just as good as I remember. Still currently the best pizza place in my eyes. And at about £4 each with the eat out scheme, even better.