Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

[ideaswoman]

I have been offered this with affordable shipping to Australia:

Ceramic Portable Pizza Oven works out at $446 USD inclusive. Same principal as the big green egg.

What do members think about this oven? Video is here: YouTube - Earthfire Ceramic Pizza Oven

Gayle

[Ken524]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

Hi Gayle,

My initial reaction:

It looks a bit small to me; there is no mention of the dimensions on the page. The website says it maintains 300c (570F). This is just a few degrees warmer than most home ovens get. And at $446 USD, it's pricey for what it does.

I'm amazed at some of the pizza other members here have cooked in their home ovens. Honestly, I think you can do better with your kitchen oven and a stone (for $50 USD or less); and you can probably find a stone locally.

Here's an electric pizza bake posted yesterday. Made my mouth water! I think it looks nicer than the pizza displayed on the ceramic oven site and video.
http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f25/...html#post68307

If you do buy this oven, be sure to take lots of pictures and post a review of it for us!! Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

Ken

[dmun]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

Yes, it looks tiny. Six minutes? That's an eternity in pizza land. I agree with ken, you're better off with a pizza stone in your home oven.

[james]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

It's true that a good pizza stone in a 550F oven can bake a nice pizza in 4-5 minutes.
James

[ideaswoman]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

Thanks for that. I will stick with my hooded bbq then as I live in a sub-tropical climate and the oven heats up the house too much in summer.

I did think 6 minutes was too long as well.

Back to the drawing board!

[JoeyVelderrain]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

Australia hu?...ever find snakes in your carport?

[ideaswoman]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

No, but did have a green try snake crawling over the top of the fence. Lots of beautiful parrots.

[ThisOldGarageNJ]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

Hey Ideas,
Did you check out Janine's thread ? If you have all that clay in the ground down under, You should be able to do that ?? For almost nothing ...
Cheers
Mark

[Archena]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

Cob rules!

[ideaswoman]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

Yes Mark, did read it all and still an option; just need to motivate the family into helping me.

[Archena]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

Pizza = motivation

[ideaswoman]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

hehehe

hmm... if you are an addict :P

[ideaswoman]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

I had another look at the website for egg above and it can get higher than 300c with more fuel.

[Ken524]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

Gayle,

I still think it's too small and too pricey (compared to a stone in your oven).

[Ricklesss]

Re: Ceramic egg pizza ovens - WFO & coal cooking?

If your looking at things like that, I highly, HIGHLY recommend the "Big Green Egg". (Kamado style ceramic cooker)
Basically, a perfected 3000 year Asian design.
Heck, some are about the same price, but much larger.
They hit very high temps, and fast. (750F in 20 minutes to a half hour)
Due to the refractory ceramics used (lifetime warranty) they hold their heat amazingly; I do "low and slow's" all the time (220F for 18 hours (on on one load of lump hardwood charcoal) for pulled pork, etc.
I cook my pizza's anywhere from a minute and a half to 5 minutes, depending on temp.
Check out: Biggreenegg.com
Their forum there, is much like this one, "family".
RicklesssssssssS in Oregon