Ooni Pizza Oven Anaconda

You can adjust the chimney vent to increase heat in the Ooni Fyra. The chimney vent can be opened and the chimney cap removed. This will increase the oven's internal airflow and raise the temperature.

I love how easy it is to cook outdoors and clean up afterwards. The Fyra 12 is no exception. Even with an oxygenated flame, soot buildup can be a problem. You don't have to clean up one thing. Two chimneys are part of the Fyra 12 -- one for smoking and one for pellet-loading -- which have various removable parts. All of these parts can become filthy after a cook. The pizza stone is easy to clean and requires little maintenance.

The oven door has a viewing hole that allows you to inspect the oven to ensure it is burning properly. Once the first batch of pellets have been lit and are burning well, add more pellets in the fuel hopper to the top of an oven until you're satisfied with the amount. The hopper automatically inserts the pellet into oven. To maintain the oven temperature you need to fill the hopper with pellets. A full hopper of pellets can last about 15 minutes.

Ooni's cheapest pizza oven is a lot of fun. But the learning curve may be too steep for some cooks to overcome.

First, you need to take out the chimney cap. Next, remove your chimney cap. I used only two handfuls to start following the guidelines. After that, you add a firelighter on the front of your pizza grate (I used Ooni Firelighters, which I had been given), light it, and then push the grate in the back.

You can also cook other things using the Ooni Fyra 12, provided you have cookware that fits inside the oven slot. Ooni provides recipes on its website for things like duck breasts and banana bread, which you cook the same way you would in any wood-fired oven—rotating to give every angle equal time facing the heat source. A tiny cast-iron skillet will work here, but you’ll need to pull the skillet out and rotate the food inside the pan rather than turning the pan itself, since the handle of the skillet will stick out of the oven; Ooni sidesteps this problem by selling its own cast iron skillet that features a removable handle. I think this is fussy (the pan is also a little flimsy and small, IMO), so I will stick to pizza.

The Ooni Fyra has over 1,000 reviews on the Ooni website. This is a good indicator that people like this portable pizza oven just as much as me. People love how simple it is to set it up, the high quality of its materials and how lightweight it is. People are also impressed with the quality of the pizzas it makes.

The ease of cleanup is something I love about outdoor cooking. Fyra 12's soot buildup is not a common problem (even when the flame is well-oxygenated). You can't clean everything at once. Fyra 12 has two chimneys. One for smoke and the other for pellet loading. They have many removable parts and can all get filthy after being used. The pizza stone can be cleaned easily and needs little else.