Our Ooni pizza oven sees quite a bit of use, mostly for garlic bread, pizzas and calzone, but we’ve even used it to cook an entire meal once when there was a twelve-hour power cut when we had friends staying for the weekend.
So it was a bit of a surprise when I put in the last of five pizzas a couple of weeks ago and very shortly afterwards hear quite an obvious snapping noise. There wasn’t much I could do at that point not least because it was dark, so I just continued cooking the pizza and then let the oven cool down.
Daylight revealed the horrible story.
I have no idea why the stone would have cracked, particularly after already cooking a number of pizzas. Obviously it’s a bit chilly at this time of year, but enough to cause significant thermal stress in the stone? Unconvinced.
Anyhow, Ooni were very good about it and arranged a replacement for us which we are going to test drive this evening.