Ooni Karu 16 Multi-Fuel Outdoor Pizza Oven - Wood & Gas Fired - Authentic Homemade Pizzas

CONS:- Way overpriced extra propane attachment... @ ~$150 USD.- Temperature adjustment is from the far back, where you can't possible watch the flame while turning.PROS:- Everything else.- This heats up quickly, seems to barely sip propane, and cooks the best pizzas.OUR STORYGot this for my wife for Christmas, as pizza is her absolute favorite food... so I figured we'd learn to make restaurant grade pizzas. A few videos later (see Vito's poolish recipes on YouTube) and several rounds of learning to properly form/shape the dough, and we were making incredible pies at home, rivaling some of the very best we've ever had at restaurants.The pics included are from a few rounds back - about midway through our journey, at only about 6 weeks in!

I love this pizza oven! It has been a very easy to use. We are still dialing it in with our dough and cook times. But everything we have made has come out great. This is a dual fuel model and I have only used it with a propane tank so far. I am looking forward to using wood charcoal next. It heats very fast, but you do need to make sure the stone is also up to temperature, not just the oven. Cooking time is insanely fast 1-2 minutes. However prep time for homemade dough takes some time for the dough to rise (3 hours). Ooni provides some great tips and recipes as well.

I had my mind set on a Forno but the reviews on this one were so good and the price was much (much!) less so, I took a chance. It has been great. We haven’t used gas, just wood. Really like the way you can cook multiple pizzas in a short time. We recently had 28 people over and it was amazing! It was easy to set up and use. It’s heavy. Very heavy! So, don’t think it’s easily portable.The only disadvantage over a Forno, to me, is that the wood fire in a Forno is on the side. The fire in the Ooni is in the back. The Forno makes it easier to see when the pizza is leoparding and needs rotating. But, practice will make the Ooni easier to figure out the nuances of rotating. So, definitely happy with this brand and model.

The big incentive for us getting this was having a dedicated pizza oven for me and my friends that are Celiac. I’ve unfortunately ran into a ton of places that say are celiac safe but cross contaminate or the pizza is just terrible. Y’all. Let me just say there is definite learning curve to cooking, turning/peeling the pizza. But y’all. Best gluten free pizza ever. NOT ONLY THIS. Ooni has a Gluten Free Pizza crust recipe. HOLY COW!!! I felt like I was eating a normal gluteny pizza. We did a test batch of the pizza dough before we purchased the oven. It was really good. Cooking it in the Karu knocked it out of the park! It was amazing! The only switch I did to the dough was I used Winco’s bulk bin GF flour, it worked just as well and sooo amazing! 10/10! We’re so excited to cook so many more things in this. Highly recommend.

I purchased the OONI Karu 16 along with the gas burner attachment. It worked fine for about six months and then the burner started shutting off after a few minutes. I tried troubleshooting it to no avail and the return process was arduous so I just purchased a new one and it had the exact same problem on the first use. Their support team wanted me to go through the same troubleshooting steps for a brand new burner. They also will not get on the phone with me to help. Terrible customer experience

Glad we went with the 16" option. Easy to use. Ordered the gas option but have been using dried oak and it heats fairly quickly so have yet to try the propane attachment. Love the wood flavor.

I bought this as a Christmas present for my father and we’ve been absolutely loving it for the past couple of months making our own pizzas right in our backyard :D It’s been a great family experience making our own dough, firing up the pizza oven, and eating our own creations.The pizza oven was super easy to set up and came with a fun booklet that went over how to operate the pizza oven (with either gas or natural wood burning) and even gave recipes and tips on how to make your best pizzas :)

we cook 100's of pizza's now love it . for everyone in neighborhood . we took it camping and did pizza in the woods cook chicken in a cast iron pan .