Ooni Fyra Pizza Oven Keep Warm

The chimney vent can be adjusted to increase the heat within the Ooni Fyra. You can open the vent by removing the chimney cap. This will naturally increase the airflow within the oven, and thus raise the internal temperature.

I only have two complaints about the overall design: The peephole in the door, there to let you check on a cooking pie without letting out heat, is too tiny to actually see through. And the fire box in the back is also too small, so it's difficult to maintain a consistent flame.

The Fyra 12 is easy to light: load the hopper with pellets, ignite the fire starter, add more pellets, sit back and drink a cold beverage. It also preheats fairly quickly. On average, the Fyra 12 takes about 15 minutes to reach the ideal temperature (900 to 950 degrees Fahrenheit), assuming the weather cooperates. For Neapolitan pizzas, you want your oven at 950 to 1,000 degrees.

My favorite thing about the oven is how easy it is to use. The wood pellets and fire starter combo could not be simpler, and so long as you keep the hopper filled to the top (and don’t, as I did on one occasion, forget about it while eating pizza for 45 minutes), you’ll be rewarded with consistent, very high temperatures. The first time I used the Fyra, I was scared about getting the pizza off the peel and into the oven, not maneuvering the pie around the oven correctly, or otherwise ruining dinner by having no experience working with a pizza oven before, but the entire process was intuitive. Without ever interacting with live fire, you reap all of the flavorful benefits in your cooking.

There are two things that I don't like about the overall design. The peephole in front of the oven, which is supposed to allow you to inspect the temperature of the pie, is too small for me to see. It's also difficult to maintain a constant flame because the firebox at the back of the stove is too small.

Ooni Fyra 12 is also capable of cooking other foods, as long as you have oven slots that can hold your cookware. Ooni offers recipes for items such as duck breasts or banana bread. These can be cooked the same way in wood-fired ovens, rotating to face the heat source. The skillet can be used, but you will need to remove the skillet from the oven and turn the food within the pan. Ooni solves this problem by making its own cast iron skillet, which has a removable handle. I find this fussy. Also, the pan is flimsy and tiny, IMO. So I will stick with pizza.

The pizza oven arrived in a compact box that was really easy to carry out to the garden. I was impressed by how small the packaging was and couldn’t believe there was an entire pizza oven inside.

It is so easy to use. The combination of wood pellets, fire starter, and fire pellets is extremely simple. If you fill the hopper to the top, you will be rewarded with consistently high temperatures. The Fyra was my first experience with pizza ovens. I was nervous about how the pizza would be handled. The flavorful benefits of cooking with live fire are all available to you without having ever touched it.