We thought they were expensive but this think will outlive me. It’s the last BBQ I’ll ever own for sure. Very efficient too. Lights first time every time with little charcoal which burns down the a very fine powder barely enough to fill a tea cup.
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Always great to find another gadget you really don’t need but would love to own! Thanks for posting.
These from another manufacturer look like igloos to me:
https://www.delivita.co.uk/products/the-very-black-oven#Features
Just in case your apprehensive about making pizza…
Even a two year old can make one. Although you might want to help out when shoving it in those hot ovens…
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He’s probably about to take a dump in the bowl…
the most difficult in a pizza is the dough. It’s like a sorcery recipe. Lot of pizzas restaurants, but very few with very good pizzas.
My Uuni/Ooni did arrive on Friday as anticipated, so today’s lunch was pizza! It is indeed quick and easy to use. I gusee it was about 20 min between lighting the firelighter and being sure it was ready. Pizzas took around 2 min each - that was with turning about 3 times to minimise charring. Not bad at all for a first go, and we all ate too much!
However, none of us can make a round pizza the proper way, but one of my sons had a great idea, use a rolling pin! Basically we each made a couple (starting with lumps of the same dough, and the same tomato supauce base, and.none the max 12” size)and shared them, so with a bit of variation in the making and added ingredients there was variety. I predict a great alternative or complement to the barbeque for alfresco summer eating and socialising, though we’ll have to source more wood chops, amaybe try another ryoe as OOni themelves are out of stock, as are the supplier’s I’ve checked (except those charging ridiculous prices for the small 3kg bag). I’m sure other hardwood pellets would do, provided low smoke & ash - but not softwood like pine as it produces a lot of tar on burning.
Thanks @GraemeH for the prompt that finalised my decision!
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Delighted it has worked out for you.
(I have a friend who uses cat-litter 
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Presumably not the Fullers’Earth type …unless you mean it is used cat litter, as a form of recycling!
)Thanks to this thread I am spending quite a bit of time working out whether to get an unni / ooni or a big green egg - or something else. My wife found a one day course on how to build your own pizza oven - but the unni definitely looks better than that idea!
I may be tempted to build my own oven after a house move in a couple of years’ time (when I’ll also be “up north”!), but that would be a permanent feature in the garden. Cheap to make, but a fundamental difference, I think, is a ‘proper one’ takes a lot longer to heat up, so you can’t just decide to light 20mins before eating. Against that it can be made large enough for more than one pizza at a time, and may be more versatile to cook other things. It will be interesting to see if I still want a full size one once I’ve had my Uuni for a while, and am used to its speed, and portability…
Well those are the very reasons making me pause - I think we’d be far more likely to use something that is quick to set up. Tho my wife loves planning in advance 
The wood pellet cat litter I use smells of pine, so probably not usable.
You could take up wood turning, I reckon to bag up a couple of cubic feet of shavings after a good session in the shed.
they need to be pellets not shavings - anything significantly different in burning characteristics would obviously affect temperature an heat-up/recovery time, and the OOni has no adjustment to compensate.
How many kg of pellets do you get through in a session?
I can only speak from an introductory session, cooking 7 pizzas fully, plus half cooking 3 to use up remaining proved dough and topping to be frozen for future finishing. Assuming original pack weight was as declared (I didn’t think to check before use), it used 1.35Kg - an average of about 160g/pizza full bake. There was a bit of delay between each, so could be less if more efficiently fed - or more if done more lazily.
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I’ve had a BGE for a little over 20+ years … awesome piece of kit … grills, BBQ’s, smokes and yes, does wonderful pizza. As for heat, it’ll get up over 800F … at night it looks like a jet engine exhaust when you have the lid off it …
A full load of charcoal at 225F will last about 10 hours … plenty of time to do our 20lb turkey at Thanksgiving … brisket and large pork shoulders are other favorites.
I also use mine for deserts … peach and apple cobblers are a favorite … searing the fruit first …
A life time guarantee … expensive, yes … but the only outdoor cooker you’ll ever need …
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I looked at the Big Green Egg years ago when they became the trend and found them to be quite expensive and a bit complicated to use.
I also looked at Uuni from when they started on Kickstarter and whilst I found them simpler and easier to use I feel that they are quite expensive for what they are. The only one that is worth considering in my view is the Uuni Pro with the gas burner add on, but, again, at £500 it is ridiculously expensive. The only time i would get it is if it were in the £300 pricemark. The same goes for all the accessories that Uuni sells. Totally overpriced and one can find them a lot cheaper elsewhere.
We have the £200 basic model 3. No need for a gas burner or accessories. It makes delicious pizza!
A cooks blowtorch is worth the investment.
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£245 now per Ooni’s website