Find out how your favorite famous pizza makers first found the love and began their journey towards sauce and cheese perfection. 

If, as food culture writer Alicia Kennedy recently proclaimed in Bon Appétit, the old way of entertaining — perfect, coiffed, anxiety-inducing — is dead, then something’s gotta take its place.  We’d advocate for the pizza party. 

What makes a great vegan pizza? If it’s “free-from” dairy and “free-from” meat, how does that liberation translate into flavour and experience? Is melt-in-your-mouth ethical cheese really a thing? Non-vegan pizza lovers can be pretty skeptical about vegan pizza. In an effort to bust myths, we got in touch with some notable vegan restaurateurs and plant-based food producers around the world.

Wondering how to clean your Ooni oven? Here are some expert tips and advice.  

Ooni pizza ovens are designed and tested throughout Scottish winters, so we know they work well year-round. But there are a few things to keep in mind if you’re an intrepid pizza-maker who uses their oven no matter the conditions. 

It can somehow end up as an afterthought, but the pizza peel is an essential part of the pizza-making process. Here’s a quick primer on each of our peels: What they’re meant to do, and how they can help you throughout your pizza-making process. 

One day a year, the fires in brick ovens across Naples are extinguished and celebratory communal bonfires are lit in the streets and piazzas of the city. This happens on January 17th, the feast day of Saint Anthony, patron saint of firemen, ironworkers, and, most importantly to us here at Ooni, pizzaioli.

Since the beginning, we’ve been on a mission to share the joy of pizza. We do that by empowering the Ooni community with the knowledge and tools they need to become the best home pizza chefs they can possibly be.

Wood pellets. If you’ve been around for a while, you know they have a special place in our hearts, and have played a big role as a fuel source for previous iterations of Ooni ovens.

Are you the lucky recipient of a new Ooni oven? (We’ll count it as a gift even if it was a “from me, for me” kind of gift!) First of all, congratulations and welcome to the community. To help you begin your pizza-making journey, here are ten things you should know when getting your oven up and running:

Read our 9 tips for launching the (almost) perfect pizza!

When Dan Richer offers his advice on pizza, you’d be wise to listen. As the chef and owner of Razza Pizza Artigianale, he knows his way around a pizza peel. Read the best tips From Dan Richer's and Katie Parla’s “Joy of Pizza” here!

Finding a perfect gift for the loved one is not easy! After nearly ten holiday seasons, we can say with certainty that unwrapping an Ooni pizza oven will make someone in your life pretty happy.

Our ears are burning. Ooni pizza ovens have caught the attention of the good folks over at WIRED, the New York Times’ Wirecutter, and the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, institutions known for their selectivity, honesty and thoroughness when it comes to product reviews. We happily submitted ourselves to their scrutinizing standards, and now we couldn’t be more delighted to have received their top marks. 

Any tampering with the way Ooni ovens are intended to function can present serious dangers. So we strongly discourage modifying any Ooni products.

We’re delighted to launch our most advanced Ooni Pizza Oven yet – Ooni Karu 16! Meet the next generation of outdoor cooking technology.