Pizza

Dough was very stretchy today which resulted in a bigger than expected pizza which needed an emergency fold to get it in the oven. Marinara and a mozzarella, goats cheese (similar to parmesan) and pesto.

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How much is a decent IR gun? Seem to be about £50 on Amazon. Reasonable?

I got a Chinese special, was about £13. Goes up to 550c which is as hot as I’ve ever had the ooni.

Seemed bonkers to drop anything more for just checking your pizza oven temp.

Annoyingly it seems corona has sent the market a bit mad, can’t seem to get them that cheap any more.

It does seem that way. Was thinking about £20-25 for something like that but it's a seller's market right now!

Tbh, it’s a nice gadget to use, but if you’re using gas, just get the fucker going full pelt and it’ll be hot as you like in 15 minutes.

Agree with this

Well it's gonna be end of May before I get it anyway so I'll keep an eye on the market until then. Otherwise I'll do what you suggest.

That and the wet finger test.

For the Roccbox it takes about 25-30 mins full pelt gas to reach 400°C. Discovered my IR gun tops out at 500 today. Frozen dough was pretty well behaved and I stuck the buffalo mozzarella in a tofu press which squished out quite a bit of milk.

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@nefarious says, cheapo gun is fine. At the moment they are almost double the price they were.

Looking at my oven thermometers they only go up to 350 or so.

stuck the buffalo mozzarella in a tofu press

Golf club thread >>>>>>

Do you even tofu bro?! It’s all about the squeeze.

Never knew tofo needed pressing.

Perfection

round two with the oven tonight, dough made and proving, doubled quantities and there might even be enough for a frozen ball for emergency future use...

So much more pleased with that, modulations issues fixed by having a gas bottle with some gas in it...

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Slightly OT: if I were to make naan in the Ooni, should I still be cranking it as high as it will go, or should I take it down a little?

Weirdly I made naan in the Roccbox this evening, you want the bottom as hot as possible and the rolling flame reduced to minimum. They puff up pretty high and I burnt the shit out of mine, I’ve had better results with the frying pan method but I think it’s just practice.

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If you have the space, knocking up a tandour is quite easy. All you need is an incinerator bin, concrete and a large terracotta pot.

Cool; might have to give it a when firing the Ooni on charcoal then.

made a pizza with supermarket cheddar and haggis, was great

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No. That is worse then fucking pineapple.

Oh have I mention that I can supply peels too?

Here is a picture

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Bought a bbq table from IKEA for the ooni, it's pretty much the same dimensions as the ooni one but 70 quid instead £180.

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