I've been having problems with my launch since I got my Koda in 2020, using flour on the peel. Thanks for this - I switched to semolina this weekend. Game changer. Thanks for all your videos.
I learned to use this oven from you in an earlier video a couple of years back. It got me good results on my first bake ever, and I still do it this way 🙏 I would only add your tip to flip over the stone before heating up the next time the oven is used, for the self cleaning effect - love that.
Hello, I've had a koda 12 for about 3 years but fell out of love with it. The main trouble i had with it is managing temperature when cooking multiple pizzas. I tend to make 5-7 each time- the first 2 cook beautifully but i find the subsequent are underbaked but with burnt crusts. Simply- the stone gets too cold. I even purchased a biscotti stone (>£50) to try and mitigate against this but it didn't help. I would have burnt crusts, underbaked dough centrally and undercooked toppings. Ive tried alot of different things including turning the flame right up in between pizzas and right down once the pizza is in. I also turn frequently and dont use sugar in my dough to reduce chance of burning. I figured this was because the 12 is simply too small- do you have any advice against this?
Hi - you’ve tried many things to get it sorted - the only thing I can advise is that you will need more time to heat the stone back up after the 2nd pizza - you may need to give it a full 15 -20mins before cooking the 3rd again. Because you originally got it to 450c, in the centre of the stone for the first 2 cooks, this shows the gas is working fine. As you grow as a pizza cook, you may want to consider upgrading to a bigger ooni oven or even check out the Ninja electric wood fire! 🍕🔥⚡️
Hi - in the Koda 12 I cook an average pizza size of 9”-10” and I mostly cook Neapolitan style pizza in there using this pizza dough recipe: 500g soft grain Italian flour, 300g water, 15g salt (dissolved in some of that water) and 1-2 g yeast (depending on climate) (also dissolved in some of that water).
Hi! Personally I find it much easier to launch the pizza off a lightweight wooden peel - and have been using the eppicotispai peels for years in small and large sizes. With some fine semolina sprinkled on top, the dough rolls off the little semolina balls. I don’t use those perforated peels to launch either - the dough just goes through the holes and gets stuck!
I've noticed that you used your oven on a wooden base. It that safe? I'll be buying the karu 12 and would like to know if I need a metal base bellow the oven or I could use it on a wooden table.
Hi - yes it’s safe for the Koda 12. For the Karu 12 with the wood fire, I place it on my wooden folding table on a stainless steel pizza preparation board that fits under it - I use it like this in this vid: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hdi8aVh3rcM.html
