The Official Pizza Discussion thread (was: Cooking Neapolitan Pizzas with the Uuni 3)

jpaul said:
would you fire it up specifically for a steak, versus corrugated iron griddle on a gas stove. ?
had wondered if the chip types could impart an interesting smoky flaavour but seems the jury's out -
https://www.smokingmeatforums.com/threads/uuni-3-pizza-oven-review.260771/page-2
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Absolutely, if its a good size steak, if its the thin ones then no its too hot for those.
With gas it takes about 5 minutes to heat up with a cast iron pan chuck the steak in for a few minutes and its done.

I doubt you would ever get the smokey taste stuff just isnt in there long enough, pizza takes less than 2 minutes.
 
I have a Uuni 3, I love it but don't use it as much as I should: Heres 2 of my pizzas from it

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Just unwrapped one of these for my birthday...! What an awesome piece of kit! Need to perfect the recipe, but managed to make about 5 passable pizzas this evening with a false start due to too little flour on the pizza peel. Can’t wait to have another go soon!

I reluctantly used a paraffin lighter after a failed attempt to start the pellets with a small blowtorch. Had absolutely no trouble getting the oven to a roaring heat and pizzas were cooked in about 90 seconds!

Questions for the Uuni owners:

Do you use the Uuni wood pellets, or are there cheaper/better alternatives?

What’s the best way to get the pellets lit? Are the natural firefighters any good? I might be a man and get a proper blowtorch.

What cast iron skillets are you using in the oven for meat/veg? My cast iron pans all have handles which would be no good in the oven I presume.

Things I want to try:

More pizza (obvs)
Naan
Massive T bone
Baba ganoush with proper flamed aubergines.
 
tom_nieto said:
This looks awesome. Would work well for naan bread too no doubt! How is it to clean? I can imagine roasting meat in there too.
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it's a stone base so you can't use anything on it which has flavour so bread is fine. meat no.

it will burn everything off. i tend to rotate the stone every time i use it. so top becomes bottom and bottom becomes top.

then when i go to use it at the top the bottom bit will have been burnt to a crisp so i use a brush to brush off the burnt bits.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
it's a stone base so you can't use anything on it which has flavour so bread is fine. meat no.

it will burn everything off. i tend to rotate the stone every time i use it. so top becomes bottom and bottom becomes top.

then when i go to use it at the top the bottom bit will have been burnt to a crisp so i use a brush to brush off the burnt bits.
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Meat/veg in a cast iron skillet would be fine though. I just need to find one that’s a suitable size.

Very impressed with my preliminary attempts at using the oven. Can’t wait to have another go this weekend!

@Loki, @Regy53 @Tyrone1Wils - are you using the Uuni wood pellets?
 
jpaul said:
the pizza thread had done the pellets 30kg/£10 -> https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/31472252
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they are now known as the company i linked to £4 for 10kg

tom_nieto said:
I need a bigger blowtorch... mine is good for birthday candles and that’s about it! Bought some natural fire lighters instead.

@Psycho Sonny - does it matter that they’re softwood rather than hardwood?
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never had any issues using them. for the price even if they do burn faster they would need to be burning like stupidly fast for it not to be worthwhile.

1 bag lasted me all of summer last year and i had 4-6 parties. i think 1 bag will last something like 10-15 hours depending on wind
 
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