How to Light Your Ooni Karu 12 - Updated Process

I've had the amazing Ooni Karu 12 for 3 years now and thought it was about time to update you with my best practice for lighting the oven and bringing it up to temperature.

I used to fall into the marketing hype around getting the oven to temperature as quickly as possible, but using my experience with wood fired ovens I've realised that even with an Ooni, there are benefits from taking a little longer and saturating the oven with heat. The main benefit is a faster recovery time between pizzas.

I now use a base of lumpwood charcoal to come almost all the way up to temperature, with barely any topping up of my fuel, then add wood to give the oven the final kick of heat.

Then I run the oven on a combination of the two fuels - lumpwood is amazing if I need some time to step away from the oven for a while, whereas I'll always use wood when I'm cooking a pizza.

I hope this helps, and if you are only using wood, you can still link through to my wood-only lighting guide from this video.

Find our fuel kit for Ooni Karu 12, including charcoal, oak kindling and firelighters, here - https://www.love-logs.com/collections/pizza-oven-wood/products/ooni-karu-12-fuel-kit

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00:00 - Video Start
00:04 - Choosing the Right Fuel
00:30 - Basic Set Up of Your Ooni
00:47 - How to Load the Fuel Tray
01:20 - Lighting the Oven
01:34 - Checking on Your Fire
02:01 - When to add Wood
02:27 - When Your Oven's Ready to Cook
02:43 - How to Manage Your Fuel
02:52 - Why I use Charcoal

Видео How to Light Your Ooni Karu 12 - Updated Process канала Love Logs - Planet Friendly Firewood