If you are planning on making a pizza Yes, if you are planning on staging a coup in Somalia No.
If you are asking if it is work spending thousands to build one instead of sticking your £2 supermarket brand pizza in your convection oven what do you think? does that seem like a saving?
Get one if you want a toy and it makes you happy but that isn't something anyone else can measure or care about.
This wine bar bourgeoisie status symbol shit for if you need to compete with the equities manager next door who just built a triple basement extension under their garden.
>>14249 >If you are asking if it is work spending thousands to build one instead of sticking your £2 supermarket brand pizza in your convection oven what do you think? does that seem like a saving?
You can get an Ooni pizza oven for about £250, other brands for probably less.
>>14250 If I was going to spend something in that price range for cooking with that's only capable of doing one specific foodstuff, it would be a rice cooker.
So not a pizza oven then? just some appliance of narrow use that calls itself a different pre-existing thing, that you already own a more multipurpose tool for which I assume is indistinguishable in quality from it.
It is a bit like calling a toaster a bread oven.
Would you spend £250 on a toaster?
If you really like traditional pizza then yes, absolutely, but you'd probably have to eat pizza (or make flatbread etc) at least a couple of times a week to actually justify the cost, so either do that, or look at it as an expensive hobby, or just don't bother.
I think if you have to ask about worth, you probably can't comfortably afford a properly built wood fired oven like in your picture, so let's rule that out. A tabletop one is fine, as long as it's capable of producing a LOT of heat. I think the best compromise are the cheap, reflecting lids that you put on your pre-existing barbeque grill - they work, but of course you need a barbeque too.
If you're really not the type of person who wants to build a fire everytime they fancy a pizza, a gas one (like the Ooni discussed above) is a bougie but effective option. Otherwise, just buy a pizza stone and use your normal oven - you can get excellent results there, but bear in mind it will not perfectly emulate a wood fired pizza, it's just not going to be hot enough to bubble the crust as much.
If you do not understand the differences between the two cooking mediums then you should not be commenting about the efficacy of one over the other. This isn't about blind tasting or subjectivity, it's just a fact that the two are different. A pizza oven is about twice as hot as your oven, and the surface the pizza cooks on is the hottest part. This ensures the pizza cooks quickly, without the toppings getting too dry or burned while the crust becomes bubbly and crispy. The extra heat makes the dough rise significantly more, giving that almost crackly crust with the near chewy texture of the inner bread that are hallmarks of traditional pizza. A home oven CANNOT do that. It can cook a nice pizza, especially if you use a pizza stone, but it will not be the same pizza as comes out of a specialized pizza oven.
I have no idea how good the Ooni oven is, but a pizza oven is totally different from an ordinary domestic oven - it should run at about 420 degrees celsius with massive amounts of radiant heat from the dome and cook a pizza in about 90 seconds.
If you have any real interest in pizza, it's easy to tell the difference between pizzas cooked in gas, electric and wood-fired ovens. You can see if the oven is running too hot or too cold just by looking at the crust. Pizza is a very simple dish, which is why every detail matters.
>>14259 > Christ, I really want to go to Naples now.
Have you been before? I remember getting the simple marinara's for something stupid like 1 or 2E a pop. I had them morning, noon and night.
Often - in The Before Times, I used to travel to Italy a couple of times a year. Going from church to church on a folding bicycle is my happy place, which is a bit odd considering that I'm a practising Buddhist. I'm very minded to retire there, if living abroad and retirement are still possible.
