All Work, No Play
Busy start for the year with work and just trying to survive until spring. We have a big work trip coming up next month and I’m in charge of it as the only female brain at work. Everyone knows women are way better at organisation and making sure everything is in order well in advance.
Winter wonderland but I just enjoy it briefly here and there. Most of the time I work in a basement where some of the windows are fully boarded up so not much natural light to be seen. It’s dark when we leave for work and it’s dark when we come home. It’s fine, the days are getting longer by a few minutes every day, the mid summer sun will soon be upon us!
With the super cold temperatures for the past month, I’ve been making my gas powered pizza oven Ooni pull double duty; cooking the pizza and warming up the kitchen. You are not supposed to use Ooni inside but I figured it’s basically the same thing as a gas stove right? We don’t really have those in Finland, other than in restaurants and some summer cottages, but I know they are popular elsewhere.
Of course a little pizza oven is not going to provide much in terms of heating but it does have to be on for about 20 minuted before the first pizza so why not use that to my advantage. It’s nice and cozy prepping the toppings while standing in front of the oven. I find the design of the oven to be quite brilliant for how it directs the heat, you can get quite close to it in the front and not burn yourself, most of the extra heat goes straight up from the opening. The shell does of course get hot but it doesn’t radiate heat far so you don’t have to clear out a big space for it.
There was a steep learning curve with Ooni but now that I have perfected the routine of when to make the dough and how high to crank up the oven (high to heat the stone, low when the pizza is in), it’s really quite simple. And now as I also am comfortable using the oven inside, I make pizza way more often. I don’t even remember when I last ordered pizza in a restaurant because the ones I make are always better anyways.
Now that looks positively delightful. The prospect of cooking tasty restaurant food yourself turned me into a regular soya chef these days. My tool of choice: an air fryer.
Honestly if you know how to cook well, restaurants are only worth it as a special treat so you don’t have to clean up and wash the dishes. Airfryer is the biggest scam of this century, my man had one and I threw it away after a few weeks of us living together. I can only somewhat understand it if you live alone and don’t have an oven.
Beautiful snow covered trees!
Smart use of the gas heat output when you use the Ooni brick pizza oven to make those delicious looking, customized gourmet pizzas!
Happy Tuesday! @eveuncovered
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Mine only works with gas, I think Ooni makes bigger ones that have different heating options. Delicious pizza nonetheless!
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Hey those pizzas look delicious. I am guessing that the thought of pizza for supper will sit in my mind all day lol. Sadly, I have no pizza oven, so it will be regular oven or carry out for me. Good thinking to get the most out of your oven by using it inside. I would be doing the same!
Take out it is then because the dough needs at least overnight to develop. Have you considered getting a pizza stone for your regular oven? They are fairly cheap and your homemade pizza game will be elevated greatly!
Yea I do believe I need to get a stone which won't help me tonight so yep...take out it is!
Cool pizza oven, not sure if we have them here but I'm going to have a look. I use my Weber Q to do the same thing, turns out ok...but not as good as yours I think. See you for pizza on the weekend!
That’s very Australian of you to use the grill for everything 😝
It's a national pastime. 😏
Alright? :)
”Alright alright alright!”
this one?
That one, though I prefer the grown up version of him 😝
have you put pineapple on that pizza???? Weirdo!
Why yes I have, and it’s delicious!
LOl, thats like having fries with rollmop herring salad.
And you look simply gorgeous in every season <3
Aww thank you babes! ❤️🤗
Be careful with the gas stove within an enclosed space. Make sure you have a properly working carbon monoxide detector nearby, just in case! (a fire extinguisher would not be a bad idea either)