Ooni Koda 16 Gas Powered Pizza Oven Review
Are you ready to take charge of your backyard cooking experience? Then look no further than Ooni Koda 16, the gas-powered outdoor pizza oven designed for stone-baking epic 16-inch pizzas and delicious flame-cooked steaks, fish and vegetables. Blending a showstopping design with the convenience of cooking with gas, Ooni Koda 16 boasts a wide opening, large cordierite stone baking board and innovative L-shaped flame. And because the flame ignites instantly with the push of a button, you’ll be ready to cook in 20 minutes. Like all Ooni Pizza ovens, choose from easy presets or customize your preferred temperature depending on what you’re cooking. With up to 500°C (950°F) – the blazing heat needed for cooking stone-baked, perfect pizza in 60 seconds – it’s ideal for home entertainers who love to impress!
Key Features
- Gas fuelled for the ultimate ease and control
- Reaches 500°C (950°F) in 20 minutes
- Cook stone-baked fresh pizza in just 60 seconds.
- Extra-large cooking area for 16” pizzas, meat joints, bread and more!
- Innovative L-shaped flame for one-turn cooking
What is it?
Who doesn’t love pizza?
We know that you deserve to be able to make delicious, homemade pizzas—at home, or wherever you are in the world. And we’ve designed our Ooni Koda 16 gas pizza oven with that goal in mind.
Done in 60 seconds—reaching temperatures of up to a massive 500 °C—the Koda 16 outdoor pizza oven will be ready to go in 15 minutes. Easy to use and ready to go straight out of the box! Simply unfold the legs, insert the pizza stone baking board, connect up to a gas tank and you’re ready to go. Featuring instant gas ignition, you will be cooking your favourite pizzas in no time—or maybe you want to roast some meat, fish or vegetables? Because if you combine the Koda 16 with one of the Ooni cast iron cooking accessories, it becomes more than a pizza maker!
Join the pizza party! Ultra-efficient—the powder-coated carbon steel shell offers incredible heat retention which combined with the efficiency and simplicity of using gas results in an extraordinary cooking experience at the turn of a dial!
Why Ooni?
Ooni revolutionized outdoor cooking and created a new category when the company launched the world’s first portable pellet pizza oven in 2012. Since then Ooni ovens have made it possible for people to make a delicious wood-fired pizza in their own back garden and for a fraction of what traditional brick-and-mortar ovens cost.
In 2011, Kristian Tapaninaho created the Ooni after finding his own pizzas lacking. He wanted to create a portable oven with the wood-fired flavour he sought, so he searched for one that met his requirements but found nothing available on the market. Seeing this as an opportunity to create an oven that was small, portable, wood-fired and cost-effective, he set to work on his own prototype and soon created the first Ooni (which means “oven” in Finnish).
Kristian wasn’t an inventor, engineer, or product designer, but he knew he had a great idea. After a series of prototypes and backyard testing, Ooni – the fast, portable, cost-effective, kick-ass wood-fired oven was born!
Ooni has won multiple awards since its launch and has expanded to sell products all over the world.
What we like
- You can cook pizzas up to 16″ in diameter.
- COMPACT: Fits in any outdoor space
- FAST: ready to cook in 20 minutes
- HOT: heats to 500ºC (950°F)
- EASY: No assembly, built-in gas ignition
What we don’t like
- No wood burning option.
- No turning peel included.
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Conclusion
Remember those thin and tasteless pizzas that you’d buy at the supermarket that would take 30 minutes to cook and had a shelf life of about half an hour? What happened to them? Easy, they have been replaced by thick and tasty artisan pizzas that can be cooked in 10 minutes or less in a new Ooni Koda 16 gas pizza oven!