Cooking troubleshooting
Making pizza is a journey: The important thing is to learn as
you go and enjoy it! Practice, eat, practice, eat, repeat!
Like all cooking, the most important factors are temperature
and time. If you want to cook a thin pizza quickly, aim for a
higher temperature and reduce the amount of time in the oven.
For thicker pizza and other dishes, reduce the temperature and
increase the time so that your food can cook through.
Aim for matching ambient and stone temperatures for
an even cook.
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My base is overcooked / burnt
Ooni Karu 16 can cook at very high temperatures, so it's
important to keep an eye on your food while it does. Not all
pizza needs to cook at top temperatures in Ooni Karu 16 and
you can easily dial down the temperatures to suit the pizza
you want!
If you find that your pizza is burning, rotate more frequently and
sooner into your bake.
We recommend the use of our Ooni Infrared Thermometer
for gauging the temperature of your stone baking board.
Some other tips that will prevent overcooking are:
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Reducing your preheat time
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Reducing the amount of flour added to your pizza base
and making sure you use 00 flour
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Using a thin base made using the Classic Ooni Pizza
Dough recipe
•
Adding enough fuel to provide flames across the top of
your pizza while the stone bakes from underneath
If your stone baking board is too hot, try adding a piece of Ooni cast
iron for 30 seconds or so to absorb some of the heat.