Ooni Cooking with Fire Cookbook

Fresh from Scotland, the Ooni team are proud to present their very first cookbook, Ooni: Cooking with Fire. Invented by Kristian Tapaninaho with his partner Darina Garland, Ooni ovens are inspired by Italian pizza ovens but they’re super-fast to heat, and super-speedy to cook in, and they wanted to take this opportunity to share their story, recipes and inspiration for great outdoor cooking.

Beautifully illustrated, Cooking with Fire is designed to help you get the most out of your Ooni oven, whether you’re cooking in your own back yard or garden, at a campsite, on the beach, or wherever the wind takes you.

Home-made pizza was the inspiration for the Ooni’s invention so, perhaps obviously, the book is brimming with ideas for creating an amazing array of Neapolitan-style pizzas. Starting with a chapter on ‘Classics’ it takes you through the essentials of making pizza the Ooni way – from kneading the perfect bread dough and tomato sauce to assembling that all-time classic of the pizza-loving world, the Margherita.

Three more chapters invite us to travel and explore the recipes that have developed from Kristian’s roots in Finland – think freshwater fish, rustic breads and garden-fresh vegetables, with lots of ideas for vegetarians as well as meat eaters. Then we move south through the street-food influences of London where the first Ooni was invented, spicy pizza toppings, kebabs, hotdogs – more veggies – and even a Caribbean-inspired, rum-soaked, flambéed pineapple.

The last chapter covers Scotland – now home to Kristian, Darina and the Ooni HQ – with breakfast-themed pizzas, seafood dishes and roasted meals inspired by the mountains and rugged coastline of this dramatic country.

Fun, sociable and easy to use, Ooni Pizza Ovens were invented by a passionate outdoor cook, Kristian Tapaninaho, who couldn’t find an affordable wood-fired pizza oven anywhere. It had to be a premium, wood-fired oven that didn’t cost the earth, wasn’t too big and that could get you cooking in a short amount of time. Ooni pizza ovens are portable – the smaller ones can be taken out and about – and if you prefer the convenience of cooking with gas, you can choose between the Ooni Koda or the Ooni Pro, which boasts a huge cooking area and a choice of fuel options to suit your cooking preferences.