For a long time, running a pizza restaurant involved a lot of trade-offs - time vs effort vs taste. It's almost universally agreed that direct-fired ovens, such as wood-fired, produce the tastiest pizza, but they're also large and require a lot of effort to operate. Other options, such as conveyor-belt ovens, allow for faster and easier pizza-making, but just aren't as nice. That's what fast-food pizza joints use.
However, there's a new option for Canadian restaurants: Ooni pizza ovens. You may have heard about them before, but either way - the hype is real. Ooni pizza ovens are the best way to produce great-tasting pizzas, quickly, and they're even reasonably affordable.
Why Ooni Is Taking Over Pizza-Making
So, what makes Ooni special? It's remarkably simple: they're incredibly hot. Ooni pizza ovens are designed to heat up to 500°C (932°F) or higher, in twenty minutes or less. That's twice the heat of a traditional oven. Once that heat is achieved, they can operate almost indefinitely throughout the course of a shift.
At that sort of heat, a standard pizza can be cooked in literally just a minute or two. You can constantly move pizzas in and out of the oven and be able to fulfill the demands of even a busy pizza-based restaurant. If you're using wood pellets as fuel, you'll be able to achieve that delicious "wood-fired" taste with a fraction of the time and effort needed for a traditional wood-fired oven.
Some other benefits of the Ooni oven include:
1. Multiple fuel sources
Standard Ooni models are designed to run off of wood pellets, which is probably best for most situations - and definitely the best-tasting. Charcoal is another option. However, they can also run on gas, and there are even hybrid models if you want gas as a 'failover' if you run out of wood.
2. Portability
Ooni ovens are remarkably small, and even their "professional" grade models are easily moved from place to place. So, they can be put almost anywhere, or even used on-site for catering!
3. Versatility
You don't have to cook pizza in an Ooni oven! They're also excellent for most hardier meats, such as steak or pork. You could even stick veggies in for a few seconds for a near-instant charring.
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