Ooni Karu Essentials Manual

Ooni Karu Essentials Manual

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Ooni Karu
Essentials
Guide
How to set up, use and look
after Ooni Karu, plus handy
tips and recipes.

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  • Page 1 Ooni Karu Essentials Guide How to set up, use and look after Ooni Karu, plus handy tips and recipes.
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents If your Ooni Karu has not arrived as expected, reach out to us at support.ooni.com. We’ll be happy to help! Ooni Karu’s legs must be fully extended before firing up. Say hello to Ooni Karu Flame management Getting the most from Ooni Karu...
  • Page 3: Say Hello To Ooni Karu

    We put this Essentials Guide together to help you to get the most out of Ooni Karu. Have a read, prepare your ingredients and then invite your friends and family to join you - the way you cook and enjoy food outdoors is about to change forever.
  • Page 4: Getting The Most From Ooni Karu

    Ooni Modular Table range available at ooni.com Getting the most from Ooni Karu Before you get fired up Before you cook amazing food out. See page Gas Burner while cooking, it’s dinner. Remember to recipes, video guides and and cooking, read through Before you cook for the first 12 for further information.
  • Page 5: Ooni Karu Features

    Ooni Karu features Wood and charcoal Ooni Karu needs good airflow to reach optimum temperatures. Remove the chimney and door when cooking with gas. You can When firing with solid fuels, set up with at least 3 feet (1 metre) add the chimney cap to the oven body to create a seal.
  • Page 6: What's In The Box

    Thick and fully insulated to retain heat, with a cool-to-touch handle. The door must be off when cooking with gas. heat. Ooni Karu has three legs that keep it sturdy and safe and non-slip feet to protect your table-top surface.
  • Page 7: Tools For Cooking

    752°F (400°C) when Karu is compatible with our range of 12” If your stone is too hot, place a piece of Ooni cast iron in baking Neapolitan-style pizza. pizza peels or those that are smaller.
  • Page 8: Which Fuel Should You Use

    For cooking with ultimate speed and reaching super high excess ash or fuel residue (250-500°C) temperatures very quickly, use the Ooni Gas Burner to create from the grate so that the the ideal temperature for cooking pizza and so much more.
  • Page 9: Chimney Vent

    Chimney vent The easiest way to regulate temperature in Ooni Karu is If your Ooni Karu is not running hot enough on wood or through fuel management. The inbuilt chimney vent also charcoal, check that your chimney vent is open and chimney allows for adjustments to be made to airflow and heat cap is removed.
  • Page 10: Wood

    You can also light with a blowtorch. before all visible flames have disappeared. overflow the grate. It is normal to see smoke when cooking with wood. Ooni Karu Size will burn cleanly and with minimal smoke when running at...
  • Page 11: Charcoal

    1. Start with 2-3 pieces of charcoal in your grate and light with 2. Ooni Karu is not ready to cook when the charcoal is black 3. Top up little and often to maintain a good base temperature. natural firestarters.
  • Page 12: Gas

    Type of gas • Adjust the flame output of your Gas • The Ooni Gas Burner has been designed • Leave the door off at all times when Burner using the control knob. Push, slowly turn and to run on propane gas.
  • Page 13: Flame Management

    This is the type of fire to aim for for Neapolitan-style pizza; it’s the result of fuel management. Ooni Karu is not ready to cook a 60-second pizza when the fuel tray looks like this. If this is your scenario, gradually build up a flame using smaller pieces of kindling, allowing for good You’ll see this when fuel is given time to burn through properly and there is enough room for...
  • Page 14: Top Tips For Making Great Pizza

    Using your Ooni Infrared thermometer, aim for at least 752°F (400°C) in the centre of your stone baking board before you launch a pizza into the oven.
  • Page 15: Top Tips For Launching Pizza

    If you stretch your pizza on a Get your pizza ready when both you and Ooni Karu are ready warm peel, the dough will start to sweat, which will cause it to cook.
  • Page 16 This recipe is an excerpt from our new cookbook, Ooni: wrap and leave to rise for another 20 minutes, or until Cooking with Fire, and the go-to pizza dough recipe for doubled in size.
  • Page 17 Add all the remaining ingredients, then simmer on a low heat for 20 minutes, or until the flavor has deepened and Made using a stovetop (hob) rather than in your Ooni, this recipe is an excerpt from our cookbook, Ooni: Cooking with the sauce has thickened slightly.
  • Page 18: Pizza Margherita

    Using a small amount of flour, dust your Ooni pizza peel. Stretch the pizza dough ball out to 12” and lay it out on your All Ooni pizza chefs should be able to master this one with pizza peel. Using a large spoon or ladle, spread the sauce just a little bit of practice.
  • Page 19: Rosemary Chicken With Roasted Onions

    Moist and tender on the inside, deliciously crispy on the outside. Nothing can compare to the magic of cast iron when Preheat your Ooni Pro or Ooni 3 to a medium-high heat. If it comes to cooking chicken – conducting high heats, our using a conventional oven, preheat to 360°F (180°C).
  • Page 20: Care Instructions

    Care instructions Where should I store Ooni Karu? Ooni Karu is built to last and you can leave it outdoors all year If you need to remove hard-to-budge debris from the stone, long. You can use the Ooni Karu Carry Cover to keep it safe use our Ooni Pizza Oven Brush.
  • Page 21: Troubleshooting

    My Ooni Karu has changed colour If your stone baking board is too hot, try adding a piece of Ooni Ooni Karu is made from high-quality stainless steel. You may cast iron for 30 seconds or so to absorb some of the heat.
  • Page 22 Replacements are available to order via ooni.com. 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.
  • Page 23: Gas Burner Troubleshooting

    Don’t open this up fully yet. 4. Return to your Ooni. Push in and very slowly turn the control The flame will not stay alight / The Burner only works if I keep...
  • Page 24: Keep In Touch

    Keep in touch We love hearing and seeing what you create and cook with your Ooni Karu so keep in touch by tagging your photos with #ooni or #oonified Follow us and keep up to date with all things Ooni via: Subscribe to our mailing list at ooni.com for access to...
  • Page 25 Everyone deserves great pizza ooni.com © 2020 Ooni Ooni is a registered trademark of Ooni Ltd. All rights reserved. v1.0...

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