Ooni Fyra Pizza Oven

Ooni Fyra delivers great value pizzas in a matter of minutes. It's perfect for beginners and pizza lovers alike. The Ooni Fyra's compact size makes it easy to fit in any space.

The Fyra 12 is easy to light: load the hopper with pellets, ignite the fire starter, add more pellets, sit back and drink a cold beverage. It also preheats fairly quickly. On average, the Fyra 12 takes about 15 minutes to reach the ideal temperature (900 to 950 degrees Fahrenheit), assuming the weather cooperates. For Neapolitan pizzas, you want your oven at 950 to 1,000 degrees.

Ooni suggests that your pizza oven should be placed in an area that is protected from wind, and at least 3ft (1m) from any structures. This will ensure the best results. It should be placed on wooden or stone, marble, or stainless steel surfaces, according to Ooni.

You have to feel it all, and there is a steep learning curve. My theory? A lot of that is down to the small fireplace mentioned in the preceding section.

It is simple to light the Fyra 12: simply load the hopper full of pellets, start the fire starter, add more pellets and then relax with a cold drink. It also heats up quickly. The Fyra 12 can reach the desired temperature in about 15 minutes, assuming that the weather cooperates. You should heat your oven to 950 to 1000 degrees for Neapolitan pizzas.

Like the Ooni 3 and the Ooni Karu, the Fyra has a door to help in retaining the heat inside the oven. Its handle is glass-reinforced which keeps it cool-to-touch even if the door gets hot. The door itself doesn’t get in the way once it’s opened – it can hang at the bottom of the opening to make way for you to slide the pizza inside.

Ooni Fyra comes with a variety of accessories, such as pizza oven covers and pizza peels. This impressive list includes thermometers, trolley tables, pizza cutters, and topping stations with compartments that can hold all your favorite toppings.

When it comes to backyard pizza ovens, Ooni is the brand to beat, and the Fyra 12 ($349) is the cheapest model it makes. The Fyra 12 is also Ooni's most portable option. It weighs 22 pounds and uses dry hardwood pellets as its fuel source, which are naturally easier to transport and widely available for purchase at grocery and hardwood stores around the U.S.

The oven door has a viewing hole that allows you to inspect the oven to ensure it is burning properly. Once the first batch of pellets have been lit and are burning well, add more pellets in the fuel hopper to the top of an oven until you're satisfied with the amount. The hopper automatically inserts the pellet into oven. To maintain the oven temperature you need to fill the hopper with pellets. A full hopper of pellets can last about 15 minutes.

After the oven arrived at our house, we made some dough and took it up to the roof. Then, we got baking. After much trial and error, many pizzas and multiple rooftop parties, many compliments and the declaration that 2022 was the summer of pizza--at least at my house- is history.

The pizza oven arrived in an extremely compact box, which was very easy to transport to the garden. I was amazed by the compact packaging and couldn't believe the entire pizza oven was inside.

There is the option of buying an Ooni infrared thermometer if you want to be 100 per cent sure of when it's up to temperature, but although this might be a good gadget to have, I don't feel it's essential for you to enjoy cooking pizzas in the oven. After a couple of times using the oven, I was able to have a good idea of when it was hot enough.