
I've made over 3000 pizzas since 2021 using the Koda 16, amaa
It's Monday and I just wanna talk pizza. (Not a restaurant/popup owner)
- First Koda 16 pizza, May 2021, ripped 2 or 3
- April 2026 Pizza
- May 2026 whole milk mozz stuffed crust pizza
I've made more since then but didn't bother taking pics because they were mostly cheese pizzas.
Background: I started making pizza more often in 2020 during COVID because this restaurant charged me $38 (it's now $41 before tax lmao) for a 12 inch pizza. My first serious pizza April 2020 baked in a home oven at 450F, it was bad.
My basic technique:
I usually do 20-24 hour room temp fermentation doughs, once a month or so I'll do 48-72 hour fermentation doughs.
I keep the oven on max the entire time, I don't dial it down unless I'm doing dessert pizza that needs a parbake, stuffed crust pizza to melt the cheese in the crust more, or I just want it extra crispy on the bottom (then I just turn the oven entirely off).
Basic 20 hour proof recipe (adjust yeast to your environment, my kitchen is around 62-65F)
- 982g flour
- 638g water
- 29g salt
- 0.5-1g yeast depending on time and temp; I do 0.6 for 65F kitchen.
Bulk mix, rest 1 or 2 hours, split into 6, rest for 20 hours, stretch and bake out of the tray. Of the 3000 pizzas I've made, probably 2500 or so were this recipe.
I've had all positive experiences with Ooni support, resolutions have taken up to 3 days but that's fair tbh given the size of the customer base. ^I ^did ^have ^one ^CSR ^inform ^me ^the ^turning ^peel ^is ^not ^supposed ^to ^be ^exposed ^to ^high ^heat ^for ^long ^periods ^of ^time, ^which ^makes ^me ^wonder ^if ^they ^knew ^how ^to ^turn ^a ^pizza.
You can probably find more of my pizzas/comments in this subreddit. Let me know if you have questions or need advice.