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Ooni Koda 16 Gas-Powered Outdoor Pizza Oven
Looking to make big pizzas?
Perfect for outdoor parties and entertaining (or just because pizza is amazing), portable outdoor pizza ovens make achieving restaurant-quality pizza at home surprisingly possible. While you can use your regular oven or an indoor pizza oven to make a decent pie, these appliances can typically only reach a maximum heat of 500 degrees, which is 200 degrees shy of the 700-degree minimum that you’ll need to achieve flawless results. The more slices the merrier! This oven is a handsome, pizza-making powerhouse. Plan on leftovers. (Or not.)
Ooni Koda 16 Gas-Powered Outdoor Pizza Oven
BEST LARGE GAS PIZZA OVEN - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
This spacious gas-fired oven is our pick for people who want the convenience of propane and the ability to make big, 16-inch pizzas. It has a powerful L-shaped burner located along the left and rear of the oven, which heats both the stone and the air in the oven effectively. We consistently produced pizzas that were perfectly cooked on top and had beautiful char and spotting on their undersides. Because the back left corner gets hotter than the rest of the oven, it’s important to rotate pizzas so that they cook evenly. The oven is impressively sleek, and its legs fold so that it’s fairly compact in storage or transit, but it’s bulkier and about twice as heavy as the Ooni Koda 12.
We maintain strict objectivity in all testing.*
PIZZA QUALITY ★★★
TEMPERATURE REGULATION ★★★
MANEUVERABILITY ★★½
KEY: GOOD ★★★ FAIR ★★ POOR ★
DETAILS
Fuel: Propane
Dimensions: 23.2 x 25 x 14.7 in
Avg Surface Temperature of Stone After Preheating: 775°F
Maximum Pizza Diameter: 16 in
Item Number: ATKOONIKD16
Item Weight: 40.10 pounds
SHIPPING
Pizza Oven Cover and Pizza Peel will ship in a separate shipment from the oven
How We Tested Outdoor Pizza Ovens
To see if portable outdoor pizza ovens could allow us to make truly professional-quality pizza at home, we purchased six models, priced from about $260 to around $700, including models from the big-name pizza oven companies Roccbox and Ooni (formerly Uuni). All could be powered by propane. Three were multifuel models that also could be heated with wood fires, and two of those models could also be heated with charcoal. We baked dozens of thin-crust and Neapolitan-style pies, first using propane to heat all the models and then using wood and/or charcoal to heat the multifuel models. Our goal: a pizza oven that quickly and reliably got scorching hot, baked excellent pizzas in a variety of styles, and was simple and convenient to operate.
Winning Traits
- Easy to assemble
- When using propane, oven ignites quickly and heat output is easy to regulate
- Cooking surface heats relatively evenly and averages about 750 degrees
* OBJECTIVITY FIRST, LAST, AND ALWAYS.
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