Essentials Guide

Cooking troubleshooting
Making pizza is a journey: The important thing is to learn as
you go and enjoy it! Practice, eat, practice, eat, repeat!
Like all cooking, the most important factors are temperature
and time. If you want to cook a thin pizza quickly, aim for a
higher temperature and reduce the amount of time in the oven.
For thicker pizza and other dishes, reduce the temperature and
increase the time so that your food can cook through.
Aim for matching ambient and stone temperatures for
an even cook.
My base is overcooked / burnt
Ooni Karu 16 can cook at very high temperatures, so it’s
important to keep an eye on your food while it does. Not all
pizza needs to cook at top temperatures in Ooni Karu 16 and
you can easily dial down the temperatures to suit the pizza
you want!
If you find that your pizza is burning, rotate more frequently and
sooner into your bake.
We recommend the use of our Ooni Infrared Thermometer
for gauging the temperature of your stone baking board.
Some other tips that will prevent overcooking are:
• Reducing your preheat time
• Reducing the amount of flour added to your pizza base
and making sure you use 00 flour
• Using a thin base made using the Classic Ooni Pizza
Dough recipe
• Adding enough fuel to provide flames across the top of
your pizza while the stone bakes from underneath
My base is undercooked
• Increase your preheat or recharge time. Measure the
temperature with your Ooni Infrared Thermometer and
preheat until it is at a temperature you are happy with.
• Use a thin base made using the Classic Ooni Pizza
Dough recipe.
• If you are cooking a thicker pizza with more toppings,
aim for a lower temperature to allow time for everything
to cook through.
• If your toppings are cooked before your base, close over
the chimney vent. This will stop flames from cooking the
top while your pizza bakes from the retained heat on
the stone.
I’m having issues with my dough
Download our app and dial in the ingredients you want to use.
Check out our online Community or reach out to our team
via support.ooni.com - we can help!
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If your stone baking board is too hot, try adding a piece of Ooni cast
iron for 30 seconds or so to absorb some of the heat.