Pizza Recipe For Pizza Oven

Got a pizza oven and want to fire it up? Try this Ooni pizza dough recipe, which works with any type of outdoor pizza oven! This dough makes the perfect supple crust that’s ideal for firing at high temperatures. It comes out light and chewy on the inside and charred on the outside, with the perfect hydration ratio for cooking at high heat. Here’s how to do it! Jump to the recipe below, or review our best practices first.

The best pizza you can make at home? Pizza in an outdoor pizza oven. Luckily, there are many great pizza ovens on the market these days. We own and have extensive experience with both the Ooni pizza oven and the ROCCBOX: and this recipe works perfectly with both! Here’s what we’ve learned in our research about what makes the best Ooni pizza dough recipe:

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This Ooni pizza dough recipe is straightforward, but it does take some practice. Here’s what to expect in the dough making process:

Ooni Pizza Dough Recipe

Stretching the dough is the trickiest part of the Ooni pizza dough process (outside of cooking it, of course!). You’ll need to stretch it into an 11-inch circle.

Alex has been making Ooni pizza dough for years and has a slightly different method for the pizza peel. He noticed that cornmeal or semolina on the bottom can tend to burn slightly in a pizza oven. So he prepares and tops the pizza dough first on our conveyorSuper Pizza Peel (so he can avoid using semolina). Then he uses the conveyor to place the dough onto the stainless steel pizza peel that comes with the oven. It’s a bit of a workaround, but it’s our best practice! You can still use cornmeal and semolina with great results.

Another tip: we like using this ROCCBOX turning peel to rotate the pizza while it cooks in the oven, which is very helpful. You can use the nonstick peel for transfer (which comes with the oven).

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Here at A Couple Cooks, we’re a bit pizza oven obsessed. We’ve owned an Ooni pizza oven for several years, and just added a ROCCBOX to the family. Here’s our two cents on the best pizza oven after years of experience:

What’s the best Ooni pizza recipe? Honestly, a great Margherita with tangy tomatoes and gooey cheese really can’t be beat. Here are a few of our top ideas for pizza recipes to make in an Ooni pizza oven:TheSanta Barbara Bakernaturally leavened (sourdough) pizza dough recipe and guide. The best sourdough pizza recipe forOoni pizza ovens and other backyard pizza ovens such as the Gozney Roccbox or indoors on theBaking Steel. If sourdough isn’t your thing check out my amazing easy no knead instant yeast pizza dough recipe.

When prepared and baked properly the pizza should have a crisp yet tender bite with beautiful leopard spotting. A slice that crunches a bit when you can pick it up and can hold substantial toppings. The interior moist, airy and never bland. I think of it as an “artisan style” dough as in care is taken at every step of the process from the organic and minimal processed ingredients to a slow and long fermentation using natural methods. The goal is delicious pizza. This dough can be used the same day or cold fermented, best used within 4 days.

Ooni Pizza Dough Recipe (for Pizza Ovens!)

Important: This dough recipe was developed using organic flours from Central Milling. The protein content and processing of flours can vary widely from brand to brand and may have a significant impact on your final product.

The Santa Barbara Baker naturally leavened (sourdough) pizza dough recipe and guide. This dough is designed for Ooni pizza ovens, the Gozney Roccbox or indoors on the Baking Steel. When prepared and baked properly the pizza should have a crisp yet tender bite with beautiful leopard spotting. A slice that crunches a bit when you can pick it up and can hold substantial toppings. The interior moist, airy and never bland.

I think of it as an artisan style dough as in care is taken at every step of the process from the organic and minimal processed ingredients to a slow and long fermentation using natural methods. The goal is delicious pizza. This dough can be used the same day or cold fermented, best used within 4 days.

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Ooni Pizza Oven Review, Tips, And Recipe

Tags: Ooni Koda 16, Ooni Pizza Dough, ooni pizza oven, Ooni Pizza Ovens, ooni recipes, Ooni Sourdough Crust, pizza, pizza dough, sourdough, sourdough pizzaMy dad often tells the story of when he first opened his Italian restaurant in Albuquerque after having moved from Italy. Time and time again, he tried to get the city to permit him to install an indoor wood-fired pizza oven. But they made the task an impossibility, citing a laundry list of regulatory violations and requiring numerous meetings and inspections. These days, it seems the city has warmed to the idea, although I’m sure it’s not

. Thankfully, as home bakers, we don’t need any permits and have more options, since many companies now make wood-fired pizza ovens for home use. I’ve long wanted one of these models, and at the end of last year, I finally got my grail and have been cranking out wood-fired pizzas ever since.

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It’s hard to capture in words the delicious kaleidoscope of flavors and textures of pizza cooked with live fire. The high-heat and burning wood gives the pizza a shockingly thin and crisp crust, an interior that’s supple and chewy, and a slight kiss of smokey flavor. To me, this is how pizza should have always been cooked–it’s a return to the original, if you will.

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Before we dig into making a pizza, let’s first go over some high-level information on using a wood-fired oven (a larger guide to this is coming soon!), then we’ll look at the wood-fired sourdough pizza dough recipe, and finally some common pizza-related questions.

: If you’re looking to make pizza in a home oven at a lower heat, see my home oven sourdough pizza dough recipe.

A wood-fired oven is just that: an oven heated by wood burning inside of it. Some wood-fired ovens have a very thick masonry mass to them; that is, their sidewalls, top (dome), and bottom (floor or deck) are made from a thick material (usually, brick) that retains significant heat. Other ovens use a material that doesn’t retain heat for as long but can heat faster.

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Within this broad definition, there are many styles of ovens, from high dome to low dome pizza-specific ovens, general-purpose cob ovens, and everything in between.

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My oven, which was given to me by Fontana Forni (who is partnering with me on this post), is a Fontana Forni Marinara Wood Pizza Oven made in Italy. This oven is unique in that the floor is made of very thick brick that retains significant heat for hours after proper firing (heating up), but the top and sides are made from high-quality steel that has less heat retention but gets hot fast. This combination makes it possible to sufficiently fire the oven in as little as 30 to 45 minutes, whereas a wood-fired oven with more masonry mass would take up to several hours to heat up fully. And thanks to the thick floor, which retains significant heat for several hours, it’s possible to bake sourdough bread, desserts, and pastry with the residual, reduced heat of the oven.

The solid construction of this oven makes operating it a treat, and with the included front door and damper control, I’m able to manage the heat inside not only to cook exceptional pizza, but a variety of other foods as well. One of my favorites lately has been my sourdough focaccia Pugliese which has potato added to the dough for a little extra chew.

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First, be sure the damper is open. On the Fontana, this means the handle of the damper is in a straight position, perpendicular to the ground2.

With a wood-fired oven, you often build a fire in the middle of the floor, and you then push it to the left or right once the floor beneath it has been sufficiently heated. But I’ve found with my Fontana oven that it’s not necessary to do this, and I simply start the fire off to the left behind the steel wood holder (a removable piece that helps keep the fire neat and away from any cooking pizza).

I first construct what’s called a “log cabin” with small pieces of wood (kindling): Stack thin pieces of wood in a number sign orientation (“#”), and then stack more