I had the best portable gas pizza oven with me on holiday in Italy

In my opinion, the Ooni Koda 16 is the best stone oven for pizza there is. Here you can read about my greatest adventure with the gas grill so far.

I have been swearing by this gas-powered stone oven and my family and friends love the pizzas made from it. This love of pizza even goes so far that I recently took my Ooni Koda 16 with me on holiday in Italy and baked pizzas for 15 people in the Airbnb.

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“You have your own pizza oven?!” – That has never happened in this Airbnb before!

When we arrived at our Airbnb on Lake Garda with eleven people and six motorcycles and mopeds in tow, our lovely hosts were already wide-eyed. When my Ooni Koda 16 pizza oven was unloaded from one of the cars and set up on the terrace near the pool, the elderly couple could only laugh. Who brings a pizza oven to Italy?

For me, pizza is simply part of summer and with the Ooni Koda 16 I can bake the best stone oven pizza myself.

In order to be able to travel with the whole group of friends, we were tied to the holiday period and thus the high season. At this time of year, finding a place for more than ten people in a good restaurant on Lake Garda is difficult, to say the least. So why pile up on the beach with other bathers and fight for restaurant reservations when there are other options?

So we came to our wonderful holiday home with a large pool, a view over the vineyards to the lake and also the plan for my beloved pizza oven. The justified scepticism of our landlords gave way to pure enthusiasm after the first convivial pizza. The couple were so impressed that the Ooni Koda 16 ordered the same evening for my own Airbnb became.

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Simply bake the best pizza yourself: This is how it works with the Ooni Koda 16

With a large bowl, flour, water, yeast and a lot of muscle power, I got to work again in Italy. I mixed the perfect pizza dough completely by hand with simple instructions – you can easily do this yourself.

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Recipe for the best pizza dough for stone oven pizzas

For six to seven small pizzas you don’t need much at all: 1kg pizza flour (Tipo 0 or Type 00), 1.5g fresh yeast or 0.5g dry yeast and 25g fine sea salt. Also 600-650ml of water.

Step 1: If you use fresh yeast, dissolve it in the water. Mix dry yeast into the flour instead. Now add roughly half of the flour to the water and mix everything together. Only then add the salt – before that it can reduce the effect of the yeast. Then add the rest of the flour and now it’s time to Knead vigorously for about 15 minutes. The ball of dough can then rest, covered, for 90 minutes.

Step 2: After this period, which incidentally is Stockgare To do this, divide your dough into six to seven equal-sized dough balls. Pull and stretch your dough balls so that a kind of opening is created at the bottom and a smooth surface at the top. Now roll the dough ball with the opening facing downwards on a wooden board or the work surface with gentle pressure under your hand.

Step 3: Now comes the so-called Piece fermentationfor which you spread your little dough babies out in a flour-dusted box or on a baking tray with some space between them and let them rest, covered and chilled, for at least 12 hours. This phase may last up to 24 hours. Just make sure to bring your dough balls to room temperature before baking the pizza. Done!

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With the dough and a few good ingredients, we started our pizza enjoyment in Italy. Of course, we invited our hosts and they spontaneously lured their neighbors with a wild promise: A funny bunch from Germany had brought their own stone oven. Again, there was great surprise, but the enthusiasm for homemade pizza even bigger afterwards. The evening was fantastic and I will remember it for a long time.

Ooni also offers a wide range of accessories to go with the gas pizza oven. You can also use the gas grill to grill steaks and vegetables and much more!

The Ooni Koda 16 can do much more than just pizza! Grilled vegetables and steaks also turn out in a very unique way at almost 500 degrees. In my opinion, the best pizza oven on the market is a true all-rounder.

If you also Immerse yourself in the world of stone oven pizza and want to create great memories like these, then I can highly recommend the Ooni Koda 16. Check out this regularly sold-out gem for yourself on Amazon:

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