Ooni Karu 12 Multi-Fuel Pizza Oven Review
Ooni Karu 12 is a portable pizza oven that can be used in your backyard or on your patio. With this oven, you can cook real wood-fired and stone-baked pizza in just 60 seconds. It can also be used with gas if you add the Ooni Gas Burner attachment. Ooni Karu’s custom-designed fuel tray maximizes airflow and delivers a powerful blast of searing flame—you’ll never have to clean any ash off it! This oven weighs only 26.4lb (12kg)—it’s light enough to carry outside, yet still powerful enough to bake your favourite pizza.
Key Features
- Multiple fuel options for maximum cooking flexibility
- Cook with wood or charcoal out of the box, or use gas with the Gas Burner for Ooni Karu 12 (sold separately)
- Reaches 500°C ( 950°F) in 15 minutes, for fresh stone-baked pizza in just 60 seconds.
- Portable at just 12kg (26.4lb), with all the power of a large pizza oven
What is it?
If you love pizza and you love cooking outdoors, then the Ooni Karu 12 Multi-Fuel Pizza Oven is the best choice for you.
This portable oven is fueled by real wood or charcoal, and it cooks authentic wood-fired, stone-baked pizza in any outdoor space in just 60 seconds—and that’s not even the best part!
Ooni Karu 12 is also gas compatible—simply order an Ooni Gas Burner attachment to extend your fuel options. With both options available, this oven can cook whatever you want.
The custom-designed fuel tray maximizes airflow and delivers a powerful blast of searing flame – load it up with real wood or charcoal, with no excess ash to clean up after!
Weighing just 26.5lb (12kg), Ooni Karu 12 offers portability, plus all the power and heat of a larger wood-fired oven.
Ooni Karu’s stainless steel body is ceramic fibre-insulated, with an extra-thick Ooni Baking Stone and a patented flame keeper for maximum heat retention.
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
- It’s Easy to assemble.
- It’s portable and only weighs just 26.5lb.
- Ooni Karu 12 lets you choose between wood-fired cooking and gas for maximum versatility.
- It heats up quickly 500°C in 15 minutes.
- Can cook stone-baked pizza in just 60 seconds.
What we don’t like
- You have to pay extra for the gas burner, it doesn’t come with the package.
- No turning peel included.
- No cover included.
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Conclusion
If you enjoy pizza and cooking, Ooni Karu 12 is definitely a product to be seriously considered. With its quality design, it has the capacity to live up to your expectations of a high-end product. It is definitely one of the best pizza ovens on the market today and will make all of your outdoor cooking dreams come true.