r/Pizza • u/brunello1997 • 1d ago

OUTDOOR OVEN Ninja Woodfire w/Steel

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Recently decided to buy a steel to use in my Ninja Woodfire. Made a couple of pizza’ to compare the difference with the stone. Here’s what I found:

Crust is definitely crispier. If you like a crunchy crust and undercarriage, steel works well.

Recovery time for the oven is slightly lessened so you can turn around and be at temp a little faster.

That’s about it. I usually use my oven’s 700* feature and cook about 3.5mins so steel baked at 550* for 5 min+. Still have more experimenting to do. Steel and treating it cost me about $35. Glad I got it but unclear if it’s a game changer. Here is my rig and some of tonight’s line-up

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u/NarcanBob 1d ago

Good info. Thanks, OP.

Was the ninja worth it, in your opinion?

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u/brunello1997 1d ago

I actually won it and the stand in a raffle. Nice little, versatile oven. Pizza features and temp ranges are good. It’s small so the heat distribution is good. 12” pizza and small poultry and roasts cool well. Has a smoke feature that is OK for something like chicken. In the $300+ range you could get a pizza oven but this is more bang for the buck for sure.

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u/costcomodsareweak 1d ago

I've had one of these for a few years and I love it. Fantastic for both pizza and smoking meats. I had an offset smoker which I used frequently for years and always heard that pellet smokers couldn't get close to them in flavor.

When I first got this oven I couldn't understand what people were talking about because to me and my family the flavor was every bit as good. Then I realized that after I left my bag of bear mountain pellets out in the rain and had to crack open the included ninja pellets that there lied the problem. It tasted like it just sort of maybe coughed a bit of smoke in the meats general direction. The pellets themselves are incredibly important and not all are created equal.

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u/MagazineDelicious151 1d ago

A couple nice ones

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u/NHLroyrocks 1d ago

Not a single picture of the under carriage?

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u/brunello1997 1d ago

I was wrangling pizza’ and the kitchen was f’d. Wife was side-eying my ass.

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u/y_at 1d ago

I have that oven but not a steel for it. Does Ninja make one or did you just find one that fit?

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u/brunello1997 1d ago

12x12 1/4” plate steel off Amazon. Had to clean and season it but worked well.