Outdoor pizza ovens have exploded in popularity in recent years, as they let people at home make pizzeria-style pies in mere minutes. They heat up well and can bake a pie in 90 seconds. However, even the best pizza ovens require a little know-how and skill — specifically, rotating the pizza while it's in the oven.
Ooni is looking to make things a little easier with a new accessory that will automatically spin your pizza in the oven as it cooks. While you'll still have to launch the pie yourself, you no longer have to worry about one side of the pizza turning to ash while the other side remains raw.
You spin me round
The Ooni Rotating Stone is a kit that can be retrofitted to the company's Koda 2 series of pizza ovens: The Koda 2, the Koda 2 Pro, and the Koda 2 Max. To install it, you attach an electric motor to the underside of the oven, and then replace the cordierite stones inside the oven with the ones included in the kit.
You'll be able to have the stone continuously turn, or have it rotate just 90 degrees, depending on what you're cooking. While Ooni isn't the first company to come out with a pizza oven with a rotating base, the company says that its mechanism should be more reliable, as it rotates the stone from the edge, rather than from the middle.
Apart from pizza, the rotating stone could also come in handy if you're using the oven to slowly cook other types of foods, such as chicken, and want to make sure the heat is evenly distributed the entire time.
Ooni Rotating Stone price and availability
Ooni will sell the Rotating Stone individually, or as part of a bundle, which will save you $50 from buying each piece separately. All of the bundles go on sale today (March 4) at Ooni.com.
Rotating Stone & Oven Bundles:
Koda 2 – $799
Koda 2 Pro – $1,099
Koda 2 Max – $1,649
Accessory Only:
Koda 2 – $329
Koda 2 Pro – $349
Koda 2 Max – $399
Outlook
Ooni's new Rotating Stone certainly puts a new spin on pizza ovens. While I would argue the toughest part is actually putting the pizza in the oven to start, letting the oven do the work of rotating the pie will at least take some of the work off your plate.
I could see it being more useful when you want to slow-roast something in the oven, so it can slowly turn over a long period of time, with no effort on your part. Regardless, we're curious to see how it performs in the real world.
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