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Kristian TapaninahoKristian Tapaninaho Ooni Team Posts: 8
edited January 22 in Progress pictures

Progress photos, eh? I have had the privilege to have cooked with an Ooni well before anyone had heard of it. I think this one is the very very first pizza I cooked with a prototype Ooni in April 2012 (Ooni would only be launched on Kickstarter in November that year). Not a looker by today’s standards but revolutionary in many ways!

This one is the last pizza I made this weekend. A classic margherita. Can’t go wrong with that ;)

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  • KevinKevin Ooni Team Posts: 115
    edited January 23

    Amazing to see the progress. That is one tasty looking pizza!

  • pizzaislovelypizzaislovely Ooni Community Member Posts: 17

    Oh wow! Is that parchment/baking paper it was cooked on? Good example of the learning curve!

    I had a look through my photos and found a pizza from March in 2012!

  • Kristian TapaninahoKristian Tapaninaho Ooni Team Posts: 8

    It sure was :)
    But the oven, inc cooking surface, was made of aerated concrete blocks so a bit of baking paper was good call!

  • WillWill Ooni Team Posts: 4

    My first pizza made on my first day working at Ooni HQ! I have been working tirelessly on my dough stretching skills since then, so hopefully now I can produce a pizza big enough to share...

  • pizzaislovelypizzaislovely Ooni Community Member Posts: 17

    @Will - that's a brilliant first effort!

  • AVBAVB Ooni Team Posts: 24

    If you squint enough that picture of Will looks like he's wearing a green kilt with pizza sporran.

  • pizzaislovelypizzaislovely Ooni Community Member Posts: 17

    @Kristian Tapaninaho - any photos you could share of the early development? I'd love to see how the product evolved (pretty sure I wouldn't be alone in that)

  • projectboxiprojectboxi Ooni Community Member Posts: 8

    @Kristian what's the recipe of the dough used on Classic Margherita? Is it the Uuni signature dough? :smile:

  • Kristian TapaninahoKristian Tapaninaho Ooni Team Posts: 8

    @projectboxi said:
    @Kristian what's the recipe of the dough used on Classic Margherita? Is it the Uuni signature dough? :smile:

    Hey, it's pretty much the normal Ooni recipe, only yeast amount has been messed with. I wrote about it in a comment on Instagram here:

  • Kristian TapaninahoKristian Tapaninaho Ooni Team Posts: 8
    edited January 31

    @pizzaislovely said:
    @Kristian Tapaninaho - any photos you could share of the early development? I'd love to see how the product evolved (pretty sure I wouldn't be alone in that)

    Absolutely! Here's a little photo of it:

    I prefer the modern ones :)

  • pizzaislovelypizzaislovely Ooni Community Member Posts: 17

    Amazing! :D

    Looks somewhat less portable

  • pizzaislovelypizzaislovely Ooni Community Member Posts: 17

    @pastryneil said:

    That is my first ooni pizza. I remember it well 😎

    Blimey! Cracking first try

  • pastryneilpastryneil Ooni Community Member Posts: 9

    I was so smug. I had some disasters after

  • KevinKevin Ooni Team Posts: 115

    @pastryneil said:
    I was so smug. I had some disasters after

    That is a belter!

  • mozzafellamozzafella Ooni Community Member Posts: 70

    2013 15m dough 😂😂

    Last night, 8 hour proof

  • UnholyPizzaUnholyPizza Ooni Community Member Posts: 19

    I've got 3 pizzas to show...

    1st pizza cooked in the conventional oven before I owned an Ooni:

     

    Then my very 1st pizza cooked in the Uuni 3:


    And finally, a pizza I cooked only yesterday whilst experimenting with some dough in my Uuni Pro:

     

     =) 

    Lewis
    UNHOLY PIZZA
    Official Ooni Pizza Taste Tester

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  • KevinKevin Ooni Team Posts: 115
    UnholyPizza said:

    And finally, a pizza I cooked only yesterday whilst experimenting with some dough in my Uuni Pro:

     

     =) 

    Absolute belter!
  • UnholyPizzaUnholyPizza Ooni Community Member Posts: 19
    Kevin said:
    UnholyPizza said:

    And finally, a pizza I cooked only yesterday whilst experimenting with some dough in my Uuni Pro:

     

     =) 

    Absolute belter!
    Thanks Kevin  =)
    Lewis
    UNHOLY PIZZA
    Official Ooni Pizza Taste Tester

    Instagram - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube

  • caswee01caswee01 Ooni Community Member Posts: 11
    My first ever pizza! Was quite impressed for the first time - I half expected to burn it or end up with a accidental calzone! 
  • KevinKevin Ooni Team Posts: 115
    caswee01 said:
    My first ever pizza! Was quite impressed for the first time - I half expected to burn it or end up with a accidental calzone! 
    Looks delicious! Was it an Ooni pizza?
  • rebelman68rebelman68 Ooni Community Member Posts: 12
    Here was one of my first in the Ooni


    Here was my most recent

  • KevinKevin Ooni Team Posts: 115
    rebelman68 said:
    Here was one of my first in the Ooni


    Here was my most recent

    Looking very, very tasty! What's changed? Your dough recipe?
  • smokin_danssmokin_dans Ooni Community Member Posts: 6
    You’ve came a long way and what an achievement 👌🏼
  • rebelman68rebelman68 Ooni Community Member Posts: 12
    edited February 18
    Kevin said:
    Here was one of my first in the Ooni


    Here was my most recent

    Looking very, very tasty! What's changed? Your dough recipe?


    Actually, my dough recipe was the same. 15+ years in the making. It was a matter of getting the right mix/type of charcoal and wood and not being afraid to let the oven crank up to that 1,000 degree range.

    I now use Blackwood charcoal. It's a pain to light, but it burns hot and long. I can usually get at least 4 pizza's done before I have to throw another log on because the charcoal base stays hot!
  • FredericFrederic Ooni Community Member Posts: 7
    Last pizza
  • KevinKevin Ooni Team Posts: 115
    rebelman68 said:
    Actually, my dough recipe was the same. 15+ years in the making. It was a matter of getting the right mix/type of charcoal and wood and not being afraid to let the oven crank up to that 1,000 degree range.

    I now use Blackwood charcoal. It's a pain to light, but it burns hot and long. I can usually get at least 4 pizza's done before I have to throw another log on because the charcoal base stays hot!

    The difference a super hot oven makes!
  • andreafalzettiandreafalzetti Ooni Community Member Posts: 8
    WOW
  • J_WJ_W Ooni Community Member Posts: 6
    One fine looking pizza there  :#
  • BasettaBasetta Ooni Community Member Posts: 7
    Never look at discussions on pizza on a monday morning... now I am craving for it!!!
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