My kiln has a burner under the stone and around the back with a turning stone cooks great pizzas

@Searedandsmoked

6 күн бұрын

yeah, that looks like a nice setup with the turning stone

Great to have you back. The oven looks okay but I haven't seen any pizza oven as good as the Blackstone. Hear me out. First, mine will be ten years old this July. I've had 2 problems; squeaking and a dead motor. The squeaking was easily fixed by adding a thrust bearing. The motor was simply replaced because it's driven by a rotisserie motor! The new units are difficult to assemble from what I've read but I believe that is mostly the cart. I threw my cart away and put the oven on a home-made simple rolling wooden cart with doors. It is the way it cooks that makes it so effective. It uses a single burner (like on a turkey fryer) with part of the flame traveling under the lower stone and part going up and across the upper stone. The lower stone sits in a cast iron plate that is rotated from below by the motor. The stone is 16 1/2 inches in diameter so it can actually hold a 16 inch pie. The oven can easily go over 900 but I, like you, make pies that cook better at about 600 - 650. This is reached in abbout 15 minutes. The rotation forces 100% even cooking even if the dough is way off center. You never have to touch the pie while it cooks. Mine (14 -15 inch NY style) are done in ~4 minutes. Recovery time to cook the next pie is under 1 minute. You can bake pies continually for as long as you want. Get Blackstone to send you one and we'll see if it is still great. Thanks, Keegan.

@Searedandsmoked

2 ай бұрын

10 years... now that is a long lasting oven there. Glad its worked out for you. Part of me like the idea of the rotating stone, and then part of me thinks it is over complicating an age old process. There are a bunch of good ovens out there these days... so many to choose from. Either way... as long as you are cooking... that's the real deal. Thanks for your support!

Does the bottom burner work ok? I had the Witt Rotante and the bottom burner broke. This is basically the exact same pizza oven.

@Searedandsmoked

Ай бұрын

so... this one just has the single burner with out rotating stone, so I cannot say one way or the other

Hard to argue with the results. Will I buy one? No. I'll just use my oven/grill/pellet cooker.