Ooni’s Latest Oven Is a Big Deal for Pizza Lovers

The Koda 2 Max supersizes everything we love about at-home pizza-making.

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The arc of home pizza-making revolution is punctuated by a few key innovations.

First, there was the pizza stone, a marked improvement over cooking pies on a baking sheet (gasp!). Then came the portable pizza oven, a seismic shift compared to cooking in a conventional oven, stone or no stone.

Ooni’s latest and largest oven, which boasts enough space to cook three 10-inch pies at the same time, sets the new high-water mark for homemade pizza lovers.

Here’s what makes the Ooni Koda 2 Max worth talking about.

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The Backstory: Ooni is for pizza lovers

To understand how we got to the Koda 2 Max, it’s helpful to first understand Ooni, the brand that literally invented portable pizza ovens.

The brand launched its first oven in 2012, and it hasn’t stopped innovating since. Today, Ooni offers a wide variety of ovens that run on pellets, wood, charcoal, gas and even electricity.

The Koda 2 Max applies Ooni’s decade plus of pizza-making innovation at a new scale, with a supersized cooking area that literally doubles your pizza potential.

The Gist: Double the pizza, double the control

If we have one gripe with portable pizza ovens, its that cooking for groups larger than two to three can be slow-going. The Koda 2 Max’s 24-inch cooking area solves this problem with a playing field that’s large enough to cook one 20-inch pie, two 12-inch pizzas or three 10-inch pizzas simultaneously.

With so much real estate available, Ooni upped its temperature control game with the Koda 2 Max, too, which is capable of reaching cook-your-pizza-in-a-minute temperatures up to 950 degrees Fahrenheit.

The oven features two independent temperature zones, so you can sear a steak next to roasting veggies, and the front-mounted digital temperature hub provides instant oven temperature readings so you know exactly when to launch your pizzas. Finally, you can also receive detailed temperature information straight from the oven to your phone via Ooni Connect™ and the Ooni app.

Our POV: If you like cooking pizza for groups, the Koda 2 Max is for you

The Koda 2 Max is the ultimate pizza oven for anyone looking to up their at-home ‘za output. It’s got all of the technology we expect from Ooni scaled up to an entirely new level.

Whether you’re cooking for a family or live to host pizza parties, the Koda 2 Max will not disappoint.