I once did a pizza in the BBQ. Right temperature, wrong flavour… unless you like to order bbq sauce pizza. ???
My mistake - that appears from John Lewis website (other retailers are available) to be for the gas powered (koda?) version with basic pellet model still £200
I do pitta bread in mine as well. Is the cost justifiable? Probably not, but what’s the fun in that? 
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A small pizza party on Sunday just gone, went well, and playing with fuel amount to control temp a bit.
I ordered a couple of 10kg bags of pellets within a few days of ordering the oven (3kg ordered with the oven to start) - but it seems to be in short supply, and only just sent today. In the meantime, after a bit of Googling, I found that the PlumbCentre, now known as Wolsley, can supply wood pellets called Balcas Brites - I ordered last week, and arrived for collection at the local branch a couple of days later: £5.90 compared to the £18 for the Uuni pellets. The question is whether they are any good, but at the price I thought worth a punt. Anyone else tried these?
Looking online some people had declared the Brites to work well with Uuni - I have reservations as different woods can burn differently, and these are some non-specific softwood rather than a hardwood lime beech, however the specification is otherwise similar. They don’t smell of pine, which is good - not because of the odour, but I know pine very readily produces tarry deposits. I shall assess over the summer, comparing with the Uuni pellets.
Another pizza party planned for this w/e if weather OK - getting to be a habit! (But maybe only because it is still a novelty.)
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Your son is correct. My wife’s been making pizzas for over 35 years and after proving cuts the dough into equal sized pieces, then rolls out with a pin - pretty much perfect circles every time (don’t forget to flour your pin and board!).
I suspect the main problem you’ll have with the softwood pellets is they’ll burn much more quickly than the equivalent hardwood version. This is certainly the case with our wood fire in the lounge. Not a huge problem, but softwood not as economical as would first appear.
I wondered that, having had the same experience with a wood stove in a previous house - however it may depend on how compressed the pellets are. They claim to have have the same energy value, so actually if they burnt quicker in weight per unit time they’d be hotter, in which case it might be appropriate to throttle the flow. Against that I’ve done a crude bulk density check which shows the Brites to be about 5% less dense than the Uuni pellets, in which case at the same volume per unit time they’d be less hot, or would need to flow at 5% faster in volume units to give the same heat. I’ll see how they perform (I cant easily check temp with sufficient accuracy as don’t have an IR thermometer, and the only thermocouples I have would be difficult to position to get a reliable reading)
Looks like a bargain; the equivalent green egg about 5x the price
Proof that you should never let that rolling pin anywhere near that dough ball.
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i am hungry now
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Just like the uuni does them! I want one now 
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They only became available at Lidl from yesterday, and it seems they have already almost sold out across the UK.
Mind you, it’s hardly surprising, as elsewhere, these are selling at 50% more than Lidl.
Picked mine up a couple of hours ago, and at that price … bargain.
Great shout, Gazza. 
Our store had 5 delivered, sold out. Though i think it’s full price is £159, which is still good.
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In Lidl today Landman mini kemado grill £79.99, bargain, well made as well!
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Lidl & Aldi do do great special non-food bargains, worth snapping up when you see them - unfortunately always based on limited stock, which at least years ago when people thought of them as down-market I assumed was to tempt people in. No temptation needed these days, but they still do the deals. Unfortunately there is no Aldi or Lidl anywhere near me - but I always go in if travelling by car with time to spare!
Forgot to mention i ordered a 10 inch pizza stone from the river, about £16
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Looking into that now … though, glancing out of the window, it doesn’t look too promising for outdoor pizza, in windy, overcast, North Yorks. 
I know put mine away in the garage😭, wife said our Lidl had a few more out this morning.
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Thanks for the head up Dave.
PIcked one up from local LIdl this morning.
Assembly seems pretty simple.
Not much in the way of instructions for use - from memory these things only need a tiny amount of charcoal which presumably goes on top of the grate - do you get the charcoal up to temp with the lid open or closed with all vents open - may not matter, but suspect you lose a lot of heat with lid open when lighting.
Credit for the heads up goes to @Gazza , who flagged it up originally.
You’re right, a bit light on instructions, but as always, the Interweb is your friend, and there’s lots of info out there on using a Kamado grill, among them, this:
Plenty of time for me to read up, since the weather has decided not to co-operate today. 